"IN BELGIUM.--HELP!"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2765, 8 May 1916, Page 6

"IN BELGIUM.--HELP!"

A RAEMAEKERS POSTER.

Louis Raemaekers, the famous Dutch cartoonist, has generously drawn for tho National Committee for Relief in Belgium one of the most remarkable and certainly, tho most heartrending of all the "War Posters." Tho misery of the millions now in Belgium whom the Germans ruuso to feed has inspired this notable jrtist to' his finest effort. A Belgian woman, with a ragged red cloak over Lor shoulders, is holding tightly to her breast an breast an infant in a shawl. ' Anund the child is clasped the mother's hand —a hand which spells starvation. In the woman's face there is the infinite sorrow of driven to.despair by German inhumanity, arc! the pitiful, helpless yearning to relieve the child's suffering.But is is in tlie face cf the child that Raemaekers lias told tho full horror of the tragedy for Belgium. The staring terror in the eyes that look up at the mother makes one shudder and turn away to think what might have been in England. With remorseless realism Raemaekers, in this infant of pain, lias visualised to the world the i.-ifamy of Germany. Tho poster, wliich is artistically reproduced, has this laconic heading: "In Belgium;" Underneath, sppeaT-s the one word "Help." Any n-sder of this newspaper can secure a copy cf the poster free of cost by sending'a justcard to tlie lion, secretary, Committee for Relief in Belgium, Trafalgar Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London,