toration. I know that the Jews in some districts have suffered in a special manner, and I cordially would support your endeavour to awaken pubUc opinion.
Prom LOBD WEARDALE:—
I am sorry it will be impossible for me to be present at your mass m.eeting on Sunday next. I should have been interested in hearing the reports from representatives upon their visit to the pogrom areas of the Ukraine. I fear, however, that they can hardly be anything but most distressing, for passions have been running riot in all those districts, and although newspaper reports are not always reliable, there can be no doubt that cruel sufferings have been inflicted upon the Jewish inhabitants of those regions. The war seems to have greatly deadened the public conscience, or perhaps the existence of widespread disorders in so many parts of the world has rendered it painfully callous. We see what is now going on close to our own shores in Ireland, and, alas, we have no Gladstone among us who would rouse the public to condemn these terrible proceedings, both in Ireland and elsewhere. I rejoice to learn you are taking action at Mile End, and I trust that a powerful appeal will proceed from your meeting, calling upon all civilised Governments to intervene to save the unfortunate Jews of Eastern Europe from the appalling attacks upon them.
Prom Col. JOSIAH C. WEDGWOOD, M.P.:— The martyrdom of the Ukrainian Jews, culminating in the massacres of the last two years, must rouse the deepest indignation of all right-minded people in the world. By reason of our protectorate over Palestine, the British Government should exercise some restraining influence over these Polish, Russian, and Rumanian butchers. At lea.st let the half-savage Governments know that our sympathies are with the Jews and not with the half-breed Dagos who persecute our friends.
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