Jewish Zionists Plan Military Defense
A NEW and interesting phase is coming over the Jewish Zionist movement, according to the following press telegram dated at Philadelphia, April 2: “The Zionist movement in this city is expected to assume a practical form within a few weeks, when an organization will be effected of military companies, prepared to defend with their lives the Jewish republic which it is planned will be established in Palestine by the purchase of the country from the Turkish government. This plan of the Philadelphia Zionists is said to be in accord with the policy outlined by them throughout the world, as they intend to have a fully equipped army and navy. An armory for the use of companies will in all probability be rented. The plan has the hearty approval of Rabbi B. Levinthal, the chief rabbi of the orthodox Jews.”