A CRY FROM POLAND
! 9 ' r": ■ STARVING PEOPLE'S 'APPEAL TO : . BRITISH PREMIER. ■ By TcJeempK—Press ifisoeiation—Copyright ; ■ London, February 6. Official. —Four million Polish-speaking !• residents of the United States have : : cabled to Mr. Asquith urging that Britain should not blockade vessels . carrying'provisions aW clothing to the ; . stricken in, Poland, \ yflttacf ; , famine and pestilence are rife. The message points omt that diplomatic ways are too alow, and 'death would win the }■■' race. The'world cannot,countenance the ; ..extermination ,of: an entire nation in 'such excruciating 'agony:" ■ • • Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, in replying, state that they deeply sym- : patliise,: but that ;,the distribution of American relief is impossible unless V lAustria and Germany prohibit the export of foodstuffs from • Poland' and guarantee that the native stocks of foodstuffs will not be used to maintain i the occupying armies.. The fact' that; this was not. done proves that Austria ■ and .Germany will never" co-operate in , any work in'the interests of .the popu- ! lation of Poland.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160209.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
160A CRY FROM POLAND Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in