CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 February 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

w [BLECiaIO TELEGRAPH—COPYBMHW.] LPBB PKEBB ASSOCIATION.] , ANOTHER APPEAL. Sydney, Feb 22Belgian Commission cables a long appeal to Australia and New Zealanl tc make continuous and supreme effort® on behalf of seven million starving Belgians. One million two Hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling must ie provided every month. In Brussels alone, two hundred thousand people daily wait in the snow for bread. In Leige thirty thousand old men, women, children and cx-ipples wait for half a pound of' bread and a litre of soup which enables them to' live. Babiss and childron are barely kept alive for want of milk. The commission expresses a fear that tfie amazing self-restraint of <he pf.op'e i i suppressing their inevitable hatred, will callap6o under tlio impelling anguish of hunger and that they will strike desperately. In their unarmed state the futility of such a step agai isfc ti.e 'invader would be tragio and they would suffer the inevitable consequences. They would be shot like ravenous dogs. Will Australia and New Zealand stand by and calmly await such an end to a noble sacrifice. Only a stupendous organised effort will avert a catastrophe. Four good sized cargoes of tood must bo Slipped to Belgium weekly, or the Belgian nation to the world's eternal shame, will perish. The commission undertakes to carry ffre cargoes of food free. Scve ny-five , thousand pounds sterling <>: a five thousand 1 ton ship full of food is required to keep the Belgians from starvation for two days. Will Australia and New Zealand give £75,000 or its equivalent in food monthly. The effort ii list not- only be suiperhumnn but continuous.