STRICKEN EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 5

STRICKEN EUROPE

i APPEAL TO UNITED STATES FOR HELP CONGRESS NOT INCLINED TO VOTE APPROPRIATIONS By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrinht Now York, May 18. The American Press is supporting Mr. Davison's appeal to the United States to give immediate 'help to the stricken, peoples of Eastern Europe—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Kec. May 20, 0.5 a.m.) Washington, May 17. Congress does not seem inclined to vote appropriations to aid Central Europe along the lines Mr. Davison suggested. Members point out that the United States has duties to her own peoples first, and whatever aid America gives should' be donated privately—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Mr. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the League of Bed Cross Societies, urged the vital necessity for Congress to appropriate SOO million dollars for use in Central and Eastern Europe, and to invito other Powers to follow suit and to co-operate in the feeding of the people.] GRANTS BY BRMSII TREASURY (Rec. May 20, 1.25 a.m.) London, May 18. It is officially announced that the Treasury has spent since June last on grants to voluntary' societies for relief of the famine-stricken areas of Europe, in connection with a scheme by which the Treasury pays pound for pound voluntarily raised—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn.-Eeuter. THE PRAGMA" REMEDY ME, ASQUITH URGES REVISION OF PEACE TERMS. (Rec. May 19, 11.45 p.m.) London, May 18. Mr. Asquith, speaking at the Central Hall, AA r estmiiister, pointed to the tragic situation throughout Europe, and expraised the opinion that the* only practical remedy was tho revision and modification oi the terms.of peace, coupled with prompt executive operation of the League of Nation Powers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.