CHRISTMAS APPEAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1652, 19 December 1916, Page 3

CHRISTMAS APPEAL.

ON BEHALF OF BELGIAN CHILDREN. Wellington, Dec. 18. His- excellency the Governor has received the following telegram from the Duke of Norfolk with a request (hat it he published in the press throughout (he Dominion. The telegram begins: — “The Lord Mayor of London, supported by the religious leaders of the nation, has urged that at every British dinner table on Christinas Day a collection shall lie made to help the Belgian children whose physical and menial sufferings during the last two years are now being barbarously accentuated by the deportation of their natural protectors. The appeal is made with the full approval of His Majesty's Government, and 1 feel sure needs only to he brought to the attention of your readers to receive that loyal response which we, as a, nation, have always been proud to give to an Ally, and especially to an Ally’s children in distress. Anyone who lias read the reports •of the German slave raids in Belgium will be able to realise the in finite sorrow of the Belgian women and children now left desolate, and the urgent need of such a message of practical sympathy as shall keep hope alive in their sorely tried hearts.

“ (Signed) XOK FOLK, Chairman of the Executive Council of the National Committee for Belief in Belgium.”

All contributions in response to the above ajjpeal should be sent to the Under-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.