A CHRISTMAS APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 19 December 1916, Page 4

A CHRISTMAS APPEAL

FROM LORD MAYOR, OF LONDONv His Excellency tho Governor has received the following telegram from His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, with tla request that it may be published in tho Press tbroughouo the Dominion: — "The Lord Mayor of London, supported by the religious leaders of the nation, has urged that at every British; dinner table on Christmas Day a collection shall be made to help the Belgian children whoso physical and mental sufferings during the last two years are now being barbarously accentuated by the deportation of their natural protectors. The appeal is made with the full approval of JJis Majesty's Govern; ment, and I feel sure needs only to be brought to the attention of your readers to receive that loyal response which we aa a nation have always been proud to give to an Ally_, and especially to an Ally's children in distress. Anyone who lias read reports of the German slavo raids in Belgium will ■ be able to realise the infinite _ sorrow of the Belgian women and children now left desolate, and the urgent need of such a message of practical sympathy as shall keep hope alive in their sorelytried hearts.—(Signed) Norfolk, Chairman of the Executive Council of the National Committee for Relief in Belgium." All contributions in response to the above appeal should be sent to the TJndor-Secretarv, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.