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Show JEWS h WM '" H WE NEED MILLION AND A HALF SAID TO BE IN A STAVING CONDITION AND ARE ASKING HELP. Rabbi Declares That Jews Are Face to Face With Tragedy Unparalleled Unparal-leled in the History of Jewish Agony. London. At a meeting here on Sunday Sun-day in behalf of the fund for the relief of Jewish victims of the war in Russia, Rus-sia, it was announced that there were 1,500,000 Jews starving in Russia. Leopold De Rothschild presided and Lord Swaytholing, Chief Rabbi Hertz, Israel Zangwill and other prominent Jews .were present. (Raihbi Hertz described the task before be-fore those raising the fund as vast and urgent. The response to the appeal for funds from the British Jews, 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 occa-sionally by a sneer at the Jews on the part of preachers ql race hatred and apologists for reaction. The Jws, he added, Tvere' face to face with a tragedy unparalleled in the history of Jewish agony. The Petrograd authorities, Rabb-'i Hertz concluded, expected a million pounds ($5,000,000) from the- British Jews and only $300,000 had been raised. He said the present call was for sacrifices and self taxation. |