HUNGRY AND COLD

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3246, 31 March 1943, Page 8

HUNGRY AND COLD

PLIGHT OF THE BELGIANS EVERYTHING TO GERMANS NO COAL IN COAL DISTRICT “In Belgium they are very short of food as the Germans requisition everything, and short of coal, right in the heart of the coal country,” writes a Belgian woman married to an Egyptian, in a letter received from Egypt by a New; Plymouth resident. “My parents remained in Belgium, where my mother died six months ago and my father is all alone,” says the ■writer. “There is only enough coal for one stove in the home, so the win-

ter will be spent in the kitchen by the stove, on which boils a meatless stew. It is hard for me to see our plentiful table here in 'Cairo . . . We are very lucky in Cairo as we still get everything we want, although we pay a great deal for it.” Admiration of the New Zealand forces is also expressed by the writer. “You have every reason to be proud of them,” she says. “They have done marvels —we all admire them very much and they are very.popular here. Your Maoris are very interesting and likeable, too. We appreciate their music very much.”