New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-01
100000 To Aid
JEWS In POLAND
Rockefeller Ship Sails for
Rotterdam with Food
for BelgianS.

For the relief Of Russian, Polish
and Galician Jews who are war suf-
ferers, 100000 has been appropriated
by the executive committee Of the
American Jewish Relief Committee.
This is in addition 70 $4,000 previ-
ously appropriated, of which $4,000
has been sent to the Jewish Coloniza-
ton Association at Petrograd for dis
tributiOn. The committees fund Is
now 1851 ,067 So.
Meanwhile a special committee. with
Oscar 5. Straus at its head. is at work
on plans for securing a ship to take a
cargo Of food TO Palestine. Details are
still to be worked out. but il has been
decided that the ship will carry aid
r u only to Jewish sufferers in Pales-
tine, but the constituencies Of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions, the
American Missionary Board and "The
Christian Herald"
The State Department has advised
the committee that the British govern
ment will grant free passage to vessels
carrying relief consignments from
America TO the Holy Land on condition
that the distribution be under the
supervision Of the American Consul
and that the Ottoman authorities do
not IN any way interfere.
The steamship Massapequa sailed for
Rotterdam yesterday on her second re-
lief voyage. loaded with $500 tons Of
food and clothing for the Belgian war
sufferers, a. gift of the Rockefeller
Foundation. The foundation has now
spent more than Sl,O00,000 on ships and
cargoes for aiding the Belgians.
The Rockefeller commission, having
for several weeks studied the dis
trbuting agencies in Belgium, gives the
highest praise to the joint activities of
the American commission, the Belgian
relief agencies and the diplomatic
authorities Of the several countries
concerned The commission is now
giving its consideration to other as
poets of war relief in Europe, and a
further report is expected shortly.
The Provisional Executive Commit
tee for General Zionist Affairs an
nounced yesterday that it would UNI
dertake 10 translate into German any
letters 10 be sent to Palestine. The
Turkish postofhce has prohibited the
use of all languages except Turkish
Arabic, French or German, so the COM
mittee's new service will make letters
eligible for transmission. Letters must
not be more than 800 words long and
be written in English, Yiddish or e.
brew. The committee also announces
that it has sent to Palestine S26,l44 ~
B The third year class, evening dlvi-
sion, of the New York University Law
School, sent S25 yesterday to the Bel
gian Relief Fund. This division as
made up of young men who are forced
to work during the day and who study
law at night.
Karl Neuhof. president Of the
Deutscher Verein, 112 Central Park
South, handed yesterday TO Alphonse
G.. Koelble, president of tie bazaar =
Gently held in the list Regiment ar
mory. a check for $4,000, 10 be used
TO help widows and orphans OF German,
Austrian and Hungarian soldiers. The
verein has about 400 members. The
check raises the total Of the bazaar
fund TO 1923, 900.
Henry Clews received a cable mes
sage Yesterday from Ambassador Page,
thanking him for money raised by the
Dollar Christmas Fund for Homeless
Belgians. There was also message
of thanks from Lord Burnham, presi-
dent of "The London Daily Telegraph
Belgian Shilling Fund.
The American branch of the Prince
of Wales National Relief Fund an
nounces a to al subscription OF SlOl''
/ $50 81. The Committee Of Mercy To-
| tai is $4,000.