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No. 50. Vienna, 12th December 1902 — 12th Kislev 5663. 6th Year

Lord Milner for the Roumanian Jews.

The illustration above is the photographic reproduction of a cheque for £25 sterling which Viscount Alfred Milner, "His Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa" (the King's Governor in South Africa), sent to Mr. Sam. Goldreich, President of the Zionist Federation of South Africa, as a contribution to the collection on behalf of the Jewish refugees from Roumania.

This practical manifestation of the sympathy of a high and powerful English statesman with the victims of Roumanian intolerance is at once a lesson for Roumania and an example for "civilised" Europe. It is in this lofty sense and free spirit that the source of England's ever-widening greatness is to be sought. No courtly consideration and no diplomatic caution has prevented the King's Governor from following the prompting of his heart and bestowing a gift upon poor, sorely suffering people for the relief of their distress. But yet another gratifying fact is to be drawn from this gift for us Zionists: the high confidence which the South African Federation has been able to inspire in the chief official of South Africa. The High Commissioner has entrusted its President with the exercise of consular functions on behalf of the homeless and unprotected Jews in South Africa; to him, as the representative of Jewry, he transmits his subscription and asks him to forward it to the proper quarter.

Mr. Goldreich acknowledged the generous gift with a letter which, in as faithful a German translation as possible, reads: