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Show Appel For Aid. An appeal pathetic in the extreme has bcei: made by the Catholic missionaries mis-sionaries of Kast India for material aid in earing for the plague-stricken natives, na-tives, who are dying by the thousands for v. ant of proper care. Last week almost every priest in Denver received a loner sent out by Brother Roch of Maryabad. diocese of Lahore. East India, In-dia, asking; for aid. and something will be done without delay to remedy condi-tions condi-tions if the church is in position to do it. The letter follows: "In the single province of Punjab within two weeks last June 67,00n persons per-sons died of the plague. ".Vow the sad news just arrived from southern India tells that the plague has broken out among the elephants and w ild animals -of the forest and has already spread among the cattle of the farmers, and threaten? the destruction "ui ueasis. ana, consequently, will f cause a famine more terrible and ex- ( tensive than any drouth could cause. "Certainly no country of the world lias undergone such terrible afflictions lor many years in succession as India. Who would have forgotten already the ; terrible famine which dt vacated the unhappy country and was followed by : scourges of Asiatic cholera and bu bonic, plague? Countless were the vic-i vic-i lims. millions of graves were opened ! and filled and funeral pyres uncounted consumed everywhere deceased Hindus. Hin-dus. "Our congregation of St. Francis has ercted two orphanages for rescued waifs of famine and plague, a village for those married, a primary, a trade :uid an agricultural school, and hundreds hun-dreds of little homeless and sick sufferers suf-ferers found a loving home. The missionaries mis-sionaries have sacrificed all in their possession, their strength and means and ate now poor, very poor, indeed Ihe little ones have saved every cent given them as reward for their labor to help u? erect a little Lourdcs grotto ' the first in our province. In the midst of our preparations to honor the beloved be-loved Queen of Heaven, his lordship our dear bishop, the Right ReV Tjr g' Pclkmans of Lahore diocese leaving us in greatest poverty and distress Our httle flock of S.OOO.ooo to 235.000.Oo6 pagans pa-gans is portly tried. t Signed) "REV. BROTHER ROCP "Superior General M. C. S. p.. Mara- ; ' Gujranwala, Punjab), Eat In- 1 l:.i." |