Cables describing the situation in the Ukraine and imploring the assistance of Jews and others in combatting hunger and exposure, which is spreading again at an alarming rate have been received here by the Federation of Ukrainian Jews. Epidemics are said to result from the famine, and appalling mortality is witnessed in consequence of the epidemics. It is imperative to provide immediately medical treatment and sanitary measures to save the surviving, advices add.
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