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Show I Urgent Appeal Made 1 " For Aid of Mexicans I MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16. The Amer-i Amer-i ican chamber of commerce of Mex-jico Mex-jico has directed an appeal to the I American people through the Associ-atedPress Associ-atedPress for the immediate relief of victims of the recent earthquake and volcanic eruptions in the states of Vera Cruz and Puobla. "So great Is the suffering of the survivors," sur-vivors," says the appeal, "and so urgent urg-ent is their need that the American chamber of commerce has organized a relief committee with George T. Summerlin, charge at the American embassy in Mexico City, as honorary chairman to collect money for medicine, medi-cine, blankets and clothing for direct distribution to the needy. Entire villages vil-lages have disappeared and numberless number-less lives have been lost and the chamber now appeals to the people of the United States to join their fellow Americans here in the work of l-olief for sick, hungry and homeless 1 -ou-sands who must be helped. |