AN APPEAL FOR SERVIA

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 9

AN APPEAL FOR SERVIA

BY NEW ZEALAJTD SLAVS. ! LOYAL DALMATIANS' ACTION. tCs.%h. G» - -v.L. the. known- leader and ; eloqnent champion of the Dalmatian Slavs of .New Zealand, makes an urgent: appeal, on. behalf of the sorely stricken country of Servia.. - Mr.. Scansie.-.haa. he'en. in. touch, with- - the Prime ■ Minister of the .Com-: mohwealth of Australia in connection .With,."the movement for a relief fund to, alleviate 'distress-, in; Sefvia. Quite a month' ago, through Jm agency; the sum of £1,100 wak forwacrded. for this purpose from in" New Zealand, who are almost to a man proServian. . ."..'■. ' . J ■■'T"-srdcerely'h'ope," said Mr. -Scansie-to-a "Stat" "reporter to-day, "that the New -Zealand people who expressed their great'geheroaty and -kindness in helping the Belgians and assisting the Italians in distress' caused by the recent earthquake will now' turn 'ibei'r : .attention to the assistance of , the" poor. Servians, who are absolutely- dying from starvation. The... plneky. Servians, in fightiDg against enormous odde, t surpiiaei ' 'the whole world in 'heroically pushing, Ausr trians out ■of Servian territory, thus preventing ■' the _ Austro-Gerinan "forces marching on to Salonika; where they intended to prevent the Allies' from ■penetrating through- . the , Dardanelles. Servia.has always- stoo€ ne, a bar against German: expansion, in,,the Balkans, and nowj when they are dying of starvation through their supreme efforts to'- keep the, Austro-German forces hack,'. I think .thai, .everybody wilj.readily.. respond to. the urgent appeal of these, .aufferers.?