=Southwestern Provinces—= Province Volynia From 20,000 to 25,000 Province Podolia ... ... Province Bessarabia From 40,000 to 50,000 =Galicia—= =Outside war area= From 10,000 to 15,000 =Restoration of trade and industry among war sufferers= From 100,000 to 150,000 =Extraordinary expenditure= From 10,000 to 15,000 ——————————————————————— =Thus= =From 484,000 to 650,000= =[Expressed in United States currency, the sum of $242,000 to $325,000 per month will be required, according to this early estimate, to satisfy the most urgent needs of the sufferers.]= As already pointed out, the sphere and extent of distress are ever increasing with the progress of the war. The Jewish relief organizations in Russia thus stand before the alarming problem: whence to obtain adequate funds to satisfy the ever growing demand. This problem becomes the more urgent as new forms of relief must be devised as the time goes on. It will not do merely to feed and shelter the stricken population. Many of the sufferers are able and willing to work, if they but had the possibility of doing so. The attention of the Jewish public will therefore have to be concentrated on a new problem: to help the ruined artisans to rehabilitate themselves, to rebuild their shattered homes and to restore their ruined business by means of cheap credit provided for them. The solution of this problem will, however, require infinitely larger means, which Russian Jewry is unable to raise.... II. SPEECH OF DEPUTY FRIEDMAN IN THE DUMA (August 2, 1915) (Translated from Petrograd “Retch,” of August 3, 1915, and published in the New York “Times,” September 23, 1915) In spite of their oppressed condition, in spite of their status of outlawry, the Jews have risen to the exalted mood of the nation and in the course of the last year have participated in the war in a noteworthy manner. They fell short of the others in no respect. They mobilized their entire enrollment, but, indeed, with this difference, that =they have also sent their only sons into the war.= The newspapers at the beginning of the war had a remarkable number of Jewish volunteers to record. =Gentlemen, those were volunteers who were entitled through their educational qualifications to the rank of officers. They knew that they would not receive this rank; and nevertheless they entered the war.=