A CRY FOR HELP

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 9

A CRY FOR HELP

' ■ «y' •--■•■ - *'»~ •** *tU&- > “/? ic , TnEKAXNE. ' > •- : *x J I ' : ®.:tho Editor pf "N.Z. *ntoo».‘* ■ Eeborte afepearina ; ih ieoeiifc English Bls8 Is 'ahcmt* . N tjbe'■ distress st i Jewish, orphans in New "., Wellington, w%> kmdjy eent woa marked copy of Jiis journal, dated No-. vemberv2otb, J.9a4 t con.tainin*f hha follow-! ing pitebuV-app^;‘sighed-’ UT J. H.: Hertz, Chief Babbi,liOndon, and others.: The. ex tract,, reads:—The following Is a: copy of a recent cable received from. .London, appealing for further funds in. aid, of 'the Jewish Ukraine "relief- fund:. /'Hebrew, CohgTegatldn/ Wellrritfton, New Zealand'. Ajfain .compelled appeal help, famished diseaseietricheh brethx&d ITk- ; raine; 300,000 Jewish - orphans still un-; protdbttdl .uncared, foodlese, trOpmatreets j begging merest , t subsistence, JJisease j among adults terrifying-. London Fedora-< tion Ukrainian Jews caxried'out stupendous taste Distributed-food, clothing, supported -hospitals, -orphanages,-dmetels,-. but cannot ' continue, without wjwur 00-opera-viiidied-ejou'- • will /inangurato l New- I*p Wltfc: generous ekßressionsiufratsrnal: ooraftftflßiohVorga'nise collections,'- Cable-funds TJfcrarelief; London, Hertz,, Chiefßabni; Herman Gollanck, Jtdrael Collate*.,Jtetid JoohelMafr, Nahum Sokolow, Israel,Zang,will S'- -i‘6. Thosedesirous of oontrlbutiiSg tewfttds the above object 1 should send their remittances: to ittnc treasurer of . the Wellington Hebrew Congregation," mrM. H. Heineman, 108, Willis street, Wellington, New-Zealand:" , .r; Sir, it is dear (as only Jews .axe, being appealed -toy--that this work ;of relief, with'winter now- on in UkrainOj is top great -for the small communities, of Jews iA’N^f and-Australia to -do .full 1 neticO - tol, -therefore, beg-, to- suggest» as this is a humanitarian ouestionwihat thei fribolo community,- should be-invited by'thet Mayor to assist,-ae true Christian charity repognisea no creed- nor pattpnality. ■ 5 ■ --V • vi-r, ■ln* the meastimo donations qoujd. .le sent to the Mayor, or-looal clergy, and cabled later as a Christmas box -f colonials. ■ If. every bpy sent ejxpence tp thp.fpnd,..thousands,.wpnldhft.jraised. .i party.: of orphans could, easily, he Stepped at Port Said if friends here wquld phn Vide homes. It -mast never he - forgotten that England has never shut her doors against the distressed' and refugees. • . o r , A COLONIAL,.