BELGIAN RELIEF.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 95, 18 November 1916, Page 2

BELGIAN RELIEF.

[To Thb Euitok Stratford Pobt.l Sir.—There is no danger happily of New Zealand as a whole or of this district, having to bear the odium of being stigmatised in history as having been a “quitter” in the great scrap, but locally there does seem a danger just now of our forgetting our duty to the people whose services to us in the first round of the fight were incalculable. Authentic and fully detailed records are now being published of the 1914 campaigns, and they make it clear how very close to overwhelming disaster were the Allies on the west front. Nothing prevented it but the brief time* for preparation afforded by tllA’\lHexpccted toughness of tbe Bblgih'ri resistance t() the onrush of th j Kaiser’s millions. But what a price the Belgians have paid and are paying for their temerity in standing up to the Great Bully ! Privation and slavery are the common lot, and those are counted lucky who have escaped worse evils. We must continue to help, it is true there are many calls, but, when all have been met, our position here is astonishingly good seeing that we are passing through such a tremendous crisis in the world’s history, i How different it might have been ! Yours, etc. NOT UNGRATEFUL.