Mr. Balfour's Appeal for Help The League of Nations states that the epidemic in Poland and Galicia is becoming of such international danger that Mr, Balfour, in the name of the Council of the League of Nations, has issued an appeal to the various Governments' for the immediate provision of £250,000 out of the £10,000,000 needed. Recent military events only make the need more urgent. Mr. Balfour's letter says "Ju Russia the disease seems to be epidemic. An eminent doctor who has just returned from that country says it has been swept from end to end by typhus, that scarcely a town or village has escaped, and that half the doctors engaged in combating the plague have died. His statement, terrible though it be, is confirmed by other witnesses. From thig vast' centre of infection the disease is carried westward by} an unceasing stream of immigrants. Prisoners returning to their homes, refugees flying for safety, crowd the railways, "Two millions of these unfortunate persons have passed the Polish disinfection stations since the Armistice, and doubtless many more have entered Poland without being subject to medical examination. They fare pouring into a country, in parts already overcrowded, where every circumstance—material and moral—combines to favour the spread of infection, "The minimum required beyond what can be obtained from private benevolence is £2,000,000, and of this it is urgently necessary that £250,000 should be immediately "But, granting the truth of these arguments, on what ground, it may be asked, should all the world be called on to alleviate a misfortune which, however great, is nevertheless confined to Eastern Europe? The answer is threefold.
"In the first place all the world has, directly or indirectly, some interest—often very great interest—in restoring the war-worn and plague-stricken areas of Poland and Galicia and plague-stricken areas of Galicia to a normal condition of
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