MIDDLE EUROPE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18412, 19 May 1920, Page 7

MIDDLE EUROPE.

STARVATION AND DISTASE . RAMPANT.

By Telegraph—Press Asßociation—CopyrigM Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, May 17. A message from Des Moines, lowa, states that Mr Honry P. Davidson chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies, declared at a general conference of Methodist and Episcopal churches, that starvation and disease had undermined Mid.ilo and Eastern Europe, and a complete economic, political, moral and physical collapse was imminent. Ho urged the vital necessity of Congress appropriating £500,000,000 for tho use of Central and Eastern Europe, and inviting other Powers to follow suit, and co-operate in feeding tho people. The crisis is so acute that delay will be fatal, and the result will U tin most terrible tragedy the human race has known. To be ■ despised for ever as a greedy Pharisaical nation was a fate the United States must not incur.