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Show FORM COMMITTEE TO APPEAL FOR FUNDS Jewish Societies and Missionaries to Ask; Aid for Destitute in Asia Minor. Announcement was made tonight that officers of various Jewish societies in America and Christian mi?3ionary organizations or-ganizations have formed a committee to appeal for funds for the relief of the destitute inhabitants of Palestine, Syria and adjacent regions. The committee, com-mittee, known 33 the Palestine-Syria relief committee, says that an appalling measure of mi aery and threatened starvation exists over a region la-fcr in area than Belgium, and aniunj people equal in numbers Christians, Jews and Mohammedans. Thus far sufficient funds have been collected for the dispatch of one shipload ship-load of food supplies, under jjuarante1 of safe conduct from the belligerent powers. Rev. ;. Stuart iJode, I). D.; is cbtiirmaii of the committee and Kabbi Stephen S,. Wise is chairman of its executive ex-ecutive committee. |