Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-23
FIELD IS OPEN TO-DAY s.sss.
 ON IRISH BELIEF CHAMPAIGN

Up to Tuesday, night .the tota3 amount raised for the Irish Relief fund in this city was s3,0S0 with a. number ,ofu teams still to report. On Tuesday, Treasurer John M. Lee received. a, check. for s1o2 from the Friends of Irish Freedom. this being the balance on- hand after that or gsnization wound up it's aftafrss recently. This check has been added to the fund
 Today Wednesday, the city and town will De open territory forltine team work CTS and leaders. The Indications are that the canyassers will enter. into the work with the same spirit and entAusi- asm that has characterized their efforts in their territories. John J. Corkery. chairman of the local committee, said
 Tuesday evening that he expects that the
 present total will be doubled before the
 campaign comes to an end on April 1st- It is probable that there. will ke no team reports ready for publication until | next Sunday afternoon when the leaders and canvassers will hold a meeting. Mir.
 Corkery issued the following stathment
 Tuesday evening explaining the need for
 relief in Ireland today:
 | Scores of thousands of Irish women
 and childFsn are in dire need.
 Over 1000 Irish homes were burned | down last year. and whole families driv-
 en to the pitiful refuge of tho open fields.
 About thousand shops were burned or wrecked./
 J In Mallsw fully half the people de- pended fo1 employment on the condensed milk factory. It was burned down just after Christmas and many houses in the town destroyed. Families have been
 selling their furniture to- buy food. A delegation of English women that visited
 Lisburn reported that one house out of
 every three hads been destroyed. Tn Bal. \ briggan one of the two hosiery mills, thS
 mainstay of the town, was burned and 25 homes destroyed. These three towns
 are not isolated instances. Over 10O cities and towns have been wrecked
 burned or shot up. Half hundred creameries. most of them cooperative enterprises owned by farmers. have beer
 destroyed.
 The total destruction in Ireland is es | timsted to have caused a lcss in property
 of upwards of s200 900 .O0O This woul,
 be equivalent to s4500. .oe0.00 in sa= coun P try the size of the. United States. { Unemployment due to the ,destrucdol s1 and dislocation of industry is. wide : spread. In Belfast alone 30.000. person, A are dependent on relief. In Dublin tn : unemployed and their dependents numbe l 55, 5,0o0-over a fifth of the population e The great fire in Cork on December 10th Q Wn1cn W1peC out the enlire center or 10 r business threw 5000 men out of work. ] The Irish have made a brave struggl e to care for their own. The situation ha y now got beyond tlrsir means. s-A They look to America for help. V n must not fail them.
 n Ten dollars will feed and clothe s homeless Irish waif for one month. 1t The following names have been inat n. vertently omitted from the list of tear
 workers: .fr Frsss q"
 Team No. 6, M,J. curran, leader; MI ie Catherine Cprcoran; Team No. 4. J. n Desmonl. leader. Mrs, HeT5-y D. Buckle, le Miss Helen Bunday and Mss Maj Bundy.
 le Within day or two MT. Corkery vi v begin to issue lists of contributors 10 q e fund for publication iu the local pre-.
 The anounts of the cntributions will n' be published. 2. .,-.-. s Anyone desiring 10 contribute to Il U fund may do SO by sending cash or d check to Treasurer John M Lee. Among the larger subscriptions T
 ceived are the following: One. s100 sui ie scription four $50 subscriptions; s ie s25 subscriptions four s20 subscription one s15. forty-nine ,s1e and one .hundre r and thirty-eight s subscriptions.