THE PRINCE’S APPEAL

Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 14

THE PRINCE’S APPEAL

DISTRESS OH COALFIELDS A DARK PICTURE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 25. While England was making . merry over Christinas to-night the Prince of Wales made a dramatic radio appeal on behalf of the millions of sufferers on the coalfields. The Prince painted a dark picture of the conditions in the “ black belt ”of unemployment. Ho told of ragged children, hopeless mothers, and of fathers who had once been industrious workers, but were now reduced to idleness and misery. He then made a personal appeal to all listeners. ' “ Before I go from you tonight,” he said, with deep earnestness, “I make one practical suggestion. It is that no Christmas gathering should break up without a concrete effort to muster help.” The result of the appeal is still unknown, hut cheques are already beginning to come in to tho Lord Mayor of London. Tho Prince arrived in evening dress, escorted by a few officials of the Radio Company Ho said; “1 wish you all a very happy Christinas evening. I don’t want to appear in the nature of a wet blanket, but 1 do ask you to think for a moment of the sufferers.” —Australian Press Association. SPECTRE OF WANT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 25. Thd Prince of Wales, in his broadcast appeal from 2LO, said: “’There are 250,000 workless miners, with three times as many dependents, who have been without wages for months because of the distress. Do not let us think at this time of the year of taking the line of least resistance, and put it out of mind and out of sight. I implore you to think what long anxiety and fear they have undergone; seeing the only trade they know slipping away from them, and the spectre of want ever bearing upon them,”—Australian Press Association-United Service.