GIFTS TO SOVIET CHILDREN
British school children made an interesting link with schools of Russia at a meeting in London where 1000 pupils of London and Home Counties presented greetings, gifts to Soviet children in this country, who arc sending them on to their friends in Russia. A young repre-
sentative from each area gave greetings to Soviet schools, and Phyllis Ryde, of Luton High School received a great ovation by delivering hers in excellent Russian. The Soviet children replied, in both Russian and English.
Tiie high-light of the gifts was the presentation of over £400, collected from pocket money of the pupils, which is to provide a mobile X-ray unit for use on the Soviet Front. Important, too, was the hand-work of the school in paintings of English life, and records and. albums of their school and everyday English lives. These, with a collection of toys, arc to be exhibited in London and sent to Moscow, where they will be distributed to young schol-
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 12, 6 October 1942, Page 5
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