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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16749, 2 January 1915, Page 3

About every twenty years someone makes the suggestion to collect all tho Jews together into ono land, and found a Jewish colony—a new Judea; but such suggestions never materialise. , Few people realise how greatly tho Jewish race is scattered in various parts of tho world. Recent statistics show that there are nearly twelve million Jews in tho population of the world, of which some three million reside in America; in Now York alone there are estimated to bo 1,062,000' Jews. Tho Jews in Africa roughly number a quarter of a million; while Asia has twice as many, and Australia gives shelter to only 17,000. Tho bulk of the Jewish nation live in Europe, where there aro about eight million Jews, of whom no fewer than five million belong to Russia, and a million to Austria. Hungary and Germany have about a million Jews in their united population: while latest statistics return the Jews in Turkey in Europe and Roumania as 240,000 for each country.