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New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 23

A message from Boston" (U.S.A.), under date December 29, intimates that on that date a fund in aid of the starving people of Ireland was authorised byCardinal O'Connell. v; His . action iV was in response to the appeal by Bishop Macßory of Down arid Connor, who/ cabled that the coming winter threatens thousands of his people with starvation, , that : 10,000 Belfast workers, are out of employment, . and that the Government's customary., allowance "has t for some treason so worked up to the present that the Catholic victimised workers are excluded from benefits." The Bishop added. "Fully 50,000 Catholics are now on the verge of starvation- in my 'diocese..";- ' ;^'; q , A "-?"'":}f '''" t i r