BELGIANS SUFFERING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 87, 9 November 1916, Page 5

BELGIANS SUFFERING

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Press Association—Copyright. (Rceived 9.25' a.m.)

Sydney, November 9

The Lord Mayor of London has cabled a Christmas Appeal to the Empire on behalf of 2J million Belgian children, of whom I 5 million under twelve years of age have been held captives by the Germans for over two years, and have only been kept alive by the humane intervention of the Neutral Relief Commission, which distributes the bare minimum of- food provided'‘hy^lKe'Allied Government. The 06 intolerable Captivity is bfeginnm’l; to 'tell its’-dreadful tale. TubeWuldslb is rapidly inWeasing; ridketsds becoming an epidemic; babies " are born painfully less in weight and measurement; and hunger. suffering, and sickness have fallen upon the mother and her child. The Lord Mayor urgently asks that on every British dinner-table on Christmas Day an “Envelope of Mercy” be placed, in which as a nks-offcring for our security and comfort, everyone should put what he or she can spare to save the oppressed Belgian children, thus providing additional nourishment J>y which alone the ravages of tuberculosis can be stayed.

The envelopes can be obtainable at the* branches of the National Committee throughout the Empire.