Show JEWS IN RUSSIA ARE IN DIRE NEED MILLION AND A HALF SAID TO BE IN A STAVING CONDITION AND ARE ASKING HELP rabbi declares declare a that jews are face to face with tragedy Un paral lebed in the history of jewish agony london at a meeting here on sunday in behalf ot of the fund for the relief of jewish jewirl 1 victims victim 8 of the war in russia it was announced that there were jews starving in russia Ilus sla leopold do rothschild presided and lord lora chief rabbi hertz israel zangwill and other prominent jews were present hertz described the task before those raising the fund as aa vast and urgent tho the response to the appeal for funds from the british jews ho he said was not nearly adequate mainly owing to their ignorance of the real state of affairs for nearly a year there has been a sinister silence in the general press broken only occasionally sio nally by a sneer at the tha jews on the part of preachers of race hatred and apologists lor for reaction the jews he added were face to stace face with a tragedy unparalleled in the history of jewish agony the petrograd Potro Petro grad authorities rabbi hertz concluded expected a million pounds irom from tho the british jews and only had been raised ile he said the present call was for sacrifices and self taxation |