JEWS OF MOROCCO RELIEF FUND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 190, 10 May 1860, Page 4

JEWS OF MOROCCO RELIEF FUND.

London Committee of Deputies of British Jews. At a Meeting of the Board specially convened on Monday evening, 7th November, 1850, Sir Moses Montefiore, Rarf., President in the Chair. : The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted—That the Board learns. with the deepest feelings of commiseration and grief, that owing to the war which it is expected will issue between Spain and Morocco, the [Jewish inhabitants of Tangier, have fled from their homes in a state of utter destitution. Nearly 2,700 of these unhappy persons have arrived at Gibralter, and it is too probable that they may be followed by many thousand others from many parts of Morocco. A local committee of the Jewish residents of Gibralter has been formed to relieve, as far as practicable, this vast amount of destitution; anc. their efforts are being generously aided by the Christian community of that town ; nor is it possible to speak too highly of the energetic and benevolent exertions of the Governor, his Excellency Sir George Codrington. Still at the date of the last advices, very many of the sufferers, including young women and children, had no resting place except the bare ground. Under these melancholy circumstances, this Board has formed itself into a Committee of relief, with power to add to its number; and energetically appeals to its coreligionists in all parts of the world, for the ealiest practicable assistance. Nor can it venture to deny itself the aid, of benevolent communities and persons, without distinction of creed, whose philantrophy may induce them to proffer assistance.

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