THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 3

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.

LADY ■ VISITOR'S VIEWS. ' Among Auckland visitors at ,the present time (writes our special correspondent) is Mrs. Freeman,'a lady who, in the course of almost world-wide travel, extended over a . number of years, has become an ardent supporter of the Victoria League movement, is keenly interested in the Zionist movement, and the repatriation of (he. Jews, and a deep student of many sociological problems. , In the course of a talk with a pressman yesterday morning, Mrs. Freeman ex-pri-s'sed herself strongly in favour of the Gothenherg system regarding the liquor Trade, providing ; the system' was. rigidly administered. l Speaking. of the Zionist movement, ,in which from a long residence in Palestine and Egypt she has become: deeply interested, airs. ■ Freeman mentioned many names familiar as household words, as associated with the question of Jewish repatriation, and names of, people with whom she had held frequent converse on the subject. Mrs. Freeman, lnlrts to the theory that the. .Tews will yet •inhabit as. a nation all that old-famed country of Mesopotamia, the rich valley of the Euphrates and Tigris, that may yet be made the granary of Europe, provided the .requisite capital and engineering skill is devoted to it. "Already much work is going on there," said Mrs. Freeman, "work that is going to alter the face of the earth in that corner of the world, and although ! the Germans have'obtain-, ed a big footing in Palestine, and' the' surrounding country there 'is no reason why the great scheme of Jewish repatriation should not see fulfilment. The great and wealthy society of the MacCabees have voted £7,000,000,. and already; Jilujre.. are ' 180,000 Jews round about' Jerusalem,' while, contrary to' the popular ideas concerning the race, they are proving themselves to be splendid agriculturalists.