THE FRENCH APPEAL
Sympathisers with France are- reminded of the meeting to be held to-night in the Town Hall in connection with the appeal that is to be made to the pubKo for funds for the French Bed Cross and other patriotic funds. This meeting lias been convened by the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) as' chairman oi the committee to formulate a plan of campaign, and to learn what are the real needs of France and how New Zealaud can heir/ to meet them. One 61 the most pressing 'problems of France is the refugee question. Hundreds of thousands of people have during the last four months' streamed from the invaded departments of the north to Paris and other cities. Now Paris itself is being evacuated by the civil population, so that the need oi funds to do something, however little, to aid these poor harassed people should ' meet with a generous response.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 238, 26 June 1918, Page 6
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154THE FRENCH APPEAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 238, 26 June 1918, Page 6
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