RELIEF FOR RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15595, 11 August 1921, Page 3

RELIEF FOR RUSSIA.

APPEALS FOR HELP

RED CROSS TO ADMINISTER FUND

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(Received August 11, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 10. Tho Imperial War Relief Fund has issued an appeal signed by the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many notables for help to Russia. The funds collected will he administered bv the R-ed Cross.

' Tho Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says: "Lenin, in a disingenuous appeal for help, seeks to.make it appear to the Russian proletariat that whatever help comes will be by the efforts of the international proletariat, not the capitalists." ROME, Aug. 10. The Rope, in a, letter to the Papal Secretary of State, has invited the Christians of the world to help faminestricken Russia.

CONFLAGRATION AT PINSK. TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS AT SARATOFF. Australian ami N Z Pablo (Vpsoc'aMon (Received August 11, 10.40 a.m.) WARSAW. Aug, .10. A great, fire is raging at Pinsk. Over three hundred houses and churches have already been destroyed. The forests outside the town are also afire. Terrible stories come from Saraloff where parents are drowning their children to save them from starvation.

SOVIET ADMISSION OF FAILURI

THE SLAVES OF YESTERDAY

(Received August 11, RIO p.m.) LONDON, August 10. 'lhe Daily Telegraph publishes a poignant letter from a Russian correspondent at Moscow, stating: "What a pity you could not have seen Kamenotf, nervous and pale, haltingly admitting to a meeting of people whom the Bolsheviks tried for three years to destroy, that the Soviet was impotent to deal with the famine.

"Remember, the Government did not call the meeting. The slaves of yesterday met and demanded it, and such was the Bolsheviks' panic that they had to comply: hence the creation of a. nonpolitical committee, which sent- out the international appeal. Although nowforced to accept assistance from those whose destruction they sought hitherto, the Bolsheviks have not changed 'their essentially malignant nature."