THE FEEDING OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN
Sir,—ln our favoured land of New Zea- „ land, wliere we hardly knolf tlie meaning >• of -cal poverty, 1 think we fail to realise what the agony of starvation must bo to those little ones of Europe who arc suffering through war's cruel devastation. Can wo conceive what it must mean to the fathers and mothers of those children to hear (heir sobbing cry for food, and 3 no food to give? to see the little bodies growing weaker and the light of life flickering out, knowing that the one thing to r stay tho hand of death was food—food j which they cannot get. Be they children j of friend or foe, can we stand unpitiying? Could not our own children collect their pennies? Or uerbws r—-"' ■"our many 1 readers might suggest a plan whorcbv we, - in however small a way, might help to - tide over tho evil hour foFUie children 1 across the seas. Or shall we,turn unheed- - ing from their cry of misery?—! nm;<etc., 1 IL
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 5
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174THE FEEDING OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 133, 1 March 1920, Page 5
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