hlet requires no Preface.
It contains a statement of facts, collected from trustworthy sources, as to the Terror in the Ukraine, since the conclusion of war, and the peril to the Jewish population in that country. It is quite likely that some of the facts and figures cited \n the foUowmg documents are below or above reality. A moment s imagination will show the grave difficulty of eliciting the exact truth from witnesses who have fled from scenes in which they took part as victims. Thus, on page 5, when " Jewish representatives, recently arrived from the Ukraine, unanimously declare that the number of Jews massacred far exceeds a hundred thousand," we do not claim plenary accuracy. But the next sentence is accurate: " The Committee of Jewish Delegations has in its possession reports on these massacres committed in more than 400 places." On pages 12 and 14 some statistics are given of the Terror, place by place. A very simple effort of computation will justify the aggregate estimate. Further, on pages 14 and 15 will be found some details of the Terror. These details do not ■encourage a minimization of its effects. The conclusion should be read in the eloquent terms of the French Appeal (pages 15 and 16), in which men as eminent ■and humane as MM. Anatole France, Henri Barbusse, Georges Duhamel, Charles Seignobos and Albert Thomas, " appeal to all peoples of the world against the unheard-of crimes of which a single people is the victim." The burning words from the altar of French justice sear the conscience of mankind: " the Jews," we read, " who for centuries have been settled in Eastern Europe, have become the innocent and pitiful victims of struggles — national, political, and social.... Millions of men, women, and children are suffering un- <lescribable misery, and are handed over defenceless to death and dishonour.
Who Is to defend them? The Federation of Ukrainian Jews in London^ which is responsible for publishing these documents, is doing all it can to collect what is necessary to relieve their distress. This elementary duty is incumbent in the first instance on fellow-Jews, who are united with the victim^ by a religious bond, and whose constant tradition it is to express that bond in terms of charity. If this were all, the Federation might have refrained from making public the details of the Terror, and from adding to the evidence of unrest, which is accumulated from every country of Europe. But the question of relief is not all, as the signatories to the French Appeal recognize. Relief is urgent and essential, not merely for the sake of the victims, pitiable though their plight is, but for the sake of Europe at large. The extent of the problem IS too vast, to be left to the charity of co-religionists. Starving children are always the potential parents of discontented and anti-social men and women.. But the demoralized urchins from the Ukraine, with their childish memory of seeing a father shot or a mother violated by savage soldiery, present a problem beyond the reach of ordinary methods of relief. Such children seem bound to grow up with a grievance against society, unless a remedy is found for their moral as well as their physical wants. The latter may be supplied by a tremendous effort of charity among thei'r ovm brethren; the former clearly depends upon the public opinion of civilized peoples. It is, first, then, to public opinioa that these facts and figures are addressed.