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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 3

~>2Bgltti in- 4b c Australasian says.— 11 The genial John De Pass, as I hare before, tyQjs/, ment jpuedy when responding io some (bast at a dinner given by the Vie* tprian Yeomanry Cavalry, in which he sertelj; said, with ; the emphasis of the army in Flanders, that he believed howrs the•'firifc'JcirVsoldier since Josephus." That"* Jestin g' comment "has received a curious illustration of bow near it is io the truthydti the- ;Army and Navy Gazette it ia told that come influential w Hebriw orgMiMtion in London memorial* ' isedlthe (TdtomfinderMnCbief to' permit aUjjewUh soldiers in the British army an opportuaity of observing the Passover " and-dther'feligtoug ceremonies" The request ~#aa courteously-granted, and intinftjjontwaa accordingly sent~to the colonel . of every regiment, asking him at the same tint»-tff^snfke a returti of all Jewish soldiera'UD^er his command. The whole of these returns are npw! in, and with a retajarfoblf result. ;Tn the ranks of the entiff British army there is just one Jew!"