The starving populace of Poland needs between $30,000,000 and {$40,000,000 worth of food imme Giately, declared Mr, Herbert Hoover, fat a mass meeting of 3,000 Polish-'Americans held in honour of General Josef Haller, minister without portfolio of the exiled Polish Gov~ ernment, "Slowly the food supplies of Poland diminish, Russia has robbed the supplies from the great agricul~ tural areas around the east of Po. Iand, 'The great industrial centres must have a stair from abroad or millions will' perish," Mr. Hoover said, "Ten or fifteen million per sons are in jeopardy of famine at this moment," he went on, "We are hoping that' Congress will appropriate some of the surplus food-Stuffs which will otherwise rot this country, Surely it is charac teristic of a great and generous people to send it to a starving people rather than sell ft in the European market, He assured we will do all in our power to bring help in this desperate need."
General Haller thanked Mr, Hoover for what he was doing for' Poland, In Poland, he said, millions of poor men, women and children blessed his hame—Reuter,
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