R.G6,000 People Pacing Starvation: Failure of Crops and Food Supplies: Typhus Follows Famine: Special Call for Help from Jews it. A, Gensburver of Road, has sent us details of the terrible state of the (mine in the Ukraine and other parts Kussia, in connection with which an appeal is specially being anode to Jewish people on behalf of their Russian ce-religionists.
as far last Anyust the Federation of Jewish Relief Olganization drew attention to the famine and pestilence threate: ing the Ukraine. A few weeks ago Mr. M. Gross Vie Chairman of the Federation, writing from Berlin, states a friend of mine who had just come from the is on the economic position there he made the "We Jews in the Ukraine can now think of one thing only—the problem of how to obtain food. You recollect the year 1921, and the terrible first months of the revolution?
Once more we are living through those terrible times, "In many towns and villages there is literally nothing to eat Tell the Jews of Enyland and America that now we dream only bread—of food of practically any description, Reconstruction and colonivation may be very fine things. But we must have cood The famine has speed to Bessarabia and 1,000,000 Jews are estimated to be in the direst straits, revive and forward eontritutions.
Some general reports of the fam tions follow. substitute for meat, butter, stoats fand other everyday foods.' indicating how the famine iven in the "Cork vest ly so bud in the The present survey," states the "Examiner," "shows that Vhraine that it has been found this year's harvest was bad necessary to take some measures gf 7,000 nores in the south-ca relief. The population of the starvaix about 8,000,000. The of bread necessary fF) ypedlioere yield; while" $009.4 estimated to he 92] reves had a crop below the average.
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visit "These hag relatven the peat to Mosen weekly by people relatives are receiving, a and etter telling: of the famine condi-(Ukraine) districts, Coffee, or what tion Moscow, Petrograd and known ay coffee, he said, costs] other centres, where 15/- peer Ib., and cheon ix the same employed are starving price, During the past four years, only food being apples. packages, for Which our 1 been send
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