Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-04
MONSTER ZIONIST
DEMONSTRATION
AT CAMP HANCOCK
British Mission Officially At
tends Meeting. Mrs. Caroline
Greenfield, Noted Orator,
Principal Speaker.

For the first time at Camp Han
cock. on Saturday night August 81 =,
the blue and white, the national stan
dard of the Jewish People, was un-
furled side by side of the Stars and
Stripes and the Union Jack Oh the oc-
casion of the monster demonstration
celebrating the recognition by the al
lied governments of the Jewish ma
tionality.
In spite of the terrible rain storm,
the Jewish Welfare Building, on the
Wrightsboro Road, was taxed to ca
pacity with several hundred soldiers
standing on the porch unable to gain
admtttance. Tho enthusiasm that per-
Yaded the audience at his meeting
was unprecedented. Never before has
Camp Hancock witnessed such arous-
ing rally. The signal for the greatest
demonstration of the evening was the
introduction by the chairman of the
British mission, Major G. w Hail.
Captain J. e. Price and Captain Harry
Daniels, V. c. NJ. c., who attended in
an official capacity.
The meeting was opened at s; 80 by
Mr.. Gilbert Harris, head OF the Je wish
Welfare Board at Camp Hancock, who
extended n hearty welcome to the
guest of the evening The chair was
then turned to Mr.. Morris Margulies
vice president of the Zionist Council
OF Greater New York, now stationed
at Hancock Marguies in his open
ing address said in part:
The beginning of the war found the
Jewish people stepped in horrors and
travail. beside which even the destruc-
ton of Jerusalem seems like a slight
wound compared with a deep-seated
cancer.
The real tragedy of the Jews of Po-
land will never be known. A hundred
Belgiums rolled into one--thats the
story of the Polish Jews. They suf-
fered not alone from the dastardly acts
and righteousness of the Hun, in a
measure of which only the Hun is Ca
pable of inflicting, Think OF the con-
dition Of the poor Jews who found
themselves in the path of the Hun
hordes! IN addition to all that, they
We're made to suffer humiliation and
indeacribable pain al the haGtss Of
their own so-cailed friendly troops.
And this is but one chapter in the
twentieth century lamentations.
But even as slavery in Egypt was
followed by national emancipation and
independence. even as the storm and
thunder and lightning of Mt. Sinai was
followed by the giving of the Tablets
even so will the period during which
drage suffering touch the very abyss
of mysery be followed by burst of
new national life, by the reL-rth Of
the Jewish nationality and the ma
tional independence of the Jewish
home land.
Aye, the scene is changing before
our eyes. Verify, the clouds of despair
are dispensing; the Jewish sun is
gloriously rising. The Jewish people
the children of the Bible-shall
again have a place in the sun, to-
gether with the rest of the liberty
loving nations of the earth. And you
and | of the American army, and the
British Tommies and the French Poll
GUS, and the Italian soldiers, and the
Jewish Legioneries fighting hand in
hand with tho ..itish, the French, the
Italian, and the rest Of the general al
lenby's victorious troops are making
this possible. Jewish Independence IS
no longer Gtopio.
. The voice of Cod, through the allied
governments has spoken; the day of
the exile is at the end,
We have assembled here this eve
nIng to give expression to our feel
ings of joy. For two thousand years
these emotions have been pent up. Now
it is time to open the dam and let
them run freely.
This meeting called to celebrate the
Allied declaration in favor Of Palestine
as a Jewish homeland, as it's first ex-
ercisc, will rise and sing the national
anthem OF the greatest of republics
1.-THE Star Spangied Banner
After the playing by the military
band OF the Star, SpaGgled Tanner
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