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Show 00 FUND TO RELIEVE HUNGER IN IRELAND IS STARTED BOJBTON, Pee. 30. A fund in aid I of starving Irishmen and women waa authorised bv Cardinal O'CoHrfell VVedncsday Hie action was in re-SponSQ re-SponSQ to 'he appeal by Bishop Ma- n.ry of Down sflld t'onnoi who cabled that the coming winter threat-, ens thousands of his people with starvation, thi-.t ten thousand Belfast workers are out of employment and , ihal the covernment's customary allowance al-lowance 'has for some reason so' J worked up to the present that these Qatholic victimized workers are ex-1 eluded from benefits." The bishop added- 'Fully 50.000 1 Catholics are now on the verge of starvation in my diocese." |