The Reform Advocate (Chicago, Illinois) (April 7, 1900)
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
The winter has not checked the emigration movement from Roumania . Every day Jews are leaving Bucharest , Jassy, and nearly all the towns in Moldavia by the dozen , the majority going to the United States of America . Cyprus has already fallen into the second place . The majority think of Australia , whether they are continually sending delegates to report on the situation there . Among these delegates there is not one man competent to undertake such a mission . From Galatz eleven delegates left a few days ago for Cyprus. Everybody is a prey to despair , and will not listen to good advice , but is determined at all costs to leave the country . Misery is growing day by day , and it is with difficulty that the hunger of the masses can be appeased by the distribution of bread or maize , which is bought with the proceeds of collections . The distress is terrible , particularly in Bucharest , and in the great Jewish centers of Moldavia , such as Jassy , Dorohoi , Botoschani , Piatra , Focshani , etc . To the existing evils must be added severe measures recently taken against hawking , which has been legally prohibited for a long time past , but has been tolerated here and there .