VICTIMS OF THE WAR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 October 1927, Page 6

VICTIMS OF THE WAR.

* THOSE WHO LOST ALL. HOMES FOR THE ‘ HIDDEN POOR” Under the auspices of the Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, an international committee has been formed in Rome comprising of the most outstanding personalities of various countries. The object is to found a home of- refuge for persons belonging to the aristocratic and intellectual classes, without any distinction of nationality, who, owing to the World War and various Other international crises have lost all their belongings and their social position. Hitherto numerous cimmittees had been formed t-o help war-wounded, orphans, and widows, but the idea of coming to the aid of so-called “hidden poor” had never occurred to anyone, although they are perhaps the worst sufferers from the revolutionary movements which have taken place in many parts of the world. With the aid of an international subscription, the committee proposes to found the first Refuge Home at Ostia, near the temple of “Our Lady, of Peace,” which is developing into an imposing church under the care of Cardinal Vannutelli, Dean of the Sacred College and Bishop of Ostial Other Refuge Homes on the same lines will he built gradually in different parts of the locality, enabling the refugees to select the locality which they prefer, and in which they can hide their grief and troubles from the world.