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No. 33. | Vienna, 14 August 1903 — 21 Ab 5663. | 7th Year

To Our Esteemed Subscribers!

During the Congress a daily special edition of "Die Welt" will appear in Basle, which will publish the proceedings of the Congress in full. By means of this special edition, which will be delivered to our subscribers daily free of charge, we wish to inform them at once, and authentically, of the proceedings of the Congress.

New subscribers will likewise receive this special edition free of charge.

The Editorial Office and Administration of "Die Welt".

To Our Friends and Fellow Zionists.

Our special edition, appearing daily during the Congress, and its free delivery to our subscribers, have been greeted on all sides with great pleasure.

We need hardly point out that the production of this extra edition and its free dispatch to subscribers entail considerable expense. — All the more urgently, therefore, must we request all those subscribers who are still in arrears with their subscription payment to renew their subscription in good time, since otherwise we can assume no guarantee for the delivery either of the weekly or of the special edition.

We likewise ask our friends and fellow Zionists to continue, as heretofore, to enlist subscribers for "Die Welt"; for the spread of the central organ means, first and foremost, the spread of the Zionist idea — and for this the Congress, and an authentic report of it such as we aim at in the special edition, offers the best occasion.

The Administration of "Die Welt".

We beg to inform our esteemed subscribers that we have entrusted the chief agency for Russia to the "Hazefirah" bookshop in Warsaw, Marianska 2.

The Administration.

Basle.

As in times long past, in majestic calm and quiet beauty, the Rhine flows through the old Swiss city. Much has it seen that has long since vanished, as though it had never been, although in the season of its birth and growth it seemed destined for eternity. And much, again, has grown wondrously from small, inconspicuous, derided beginnings, and has endured, strong and lasting as the giant mountains that for centuries have been mirrored in the waves of the mighty river and have watched, proud and calm, the swiftly changing, swiftly passing life along its banks go by — this small and yet so great life, which signifies a thousand human destinies, a thousand struggles for light and happiness, and so few victories after countless defeats.

Yet scarcely any of the events that have come to pass in this old city through the centuries can stand so strange, so wholly without parallel, as the assembly of the Jews who, after almost two thousand years of exile and martyrdom, set about raising up the work of their liberation, of their future commonwealth. That it was Basle, of all places, that the choice fell upon, to become the seat of the national council which determines, or at least mightily influences, the future of an ancient people — for that we are grateful to fate. Every year numerous Zionists may be seen making pilgrimage to the St. Jakob monument, which glorifies the sons of Switzerland who proved their faithful devotion to their people even unto death. Scarcely will the members of any other nation be so deeply moved by the festal procession of the 26th of August as the Jews, who are resolved to dare the utmost for the rescue of their people — as the Zionists. Whoever witnessed the scene that took place during the Second Zionist Congress, whoever heard the jubilation of the Swiss as they marched past the Congress hall, whoever heard the hundred-voiced, exultant "Hoch Zionischte!" when our delegates, deeply moved, saluted the procession, will also know why Basle has grown so dear to our hearts, why this city will remain for ever bound up with the history of our resurrection.

The people and Council of the city, all the authorities, have ever been towards us, with the greatest hospitality, with heartfelt kind-