A GENERATION LOST

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 136, 12 June 1916, Page 3

A GENERATION LOST

j WHAT FRANCE AND BELGIUM i HAVE TO FACE t I " I To show some of the. pathetic side of ■ its work, as an illustration of its need, i th ( > Franco-American Committee for the Protection of the Children of the Frontier recently issued a pamphlet tolling of the development of this branch of relief. The leaflet gives an intimate 1 idea of the plight of the thousands of. children left without care after war has stricken their villages. "Probably the main sufferers from the war’ says the writer of the pamphlet are the inartic weak and helpless children, so many thousand of whom are forced to leave their homes and become dependent upon the help of others. The whole future of France and Belgium after the war must necessarily depend upon the care given to these thousands of war orphans. • "Do you realise,’ said a Frenchman, of prominence to me some months ago, that in France after the war, whatever the result, there will bo one generation short—practically nothing left to fill the gap between the men of over forty and the boys under eighteen? It is evident that the extraordinary statement was substantially accurate, and that, the mass of able-bodied men who make up the strength of the country will have disappeared. ‘lt is impossible adequately to describe what the evacuation of a frontier village means. In fact, in many of the little villages and towns the inhabitants have refused to leave, and have clung to their homes through weeks and months of bombardment. Last August I saw the great shells flying towards Pont-a-Mousson, and was told it was the 164th bombardment of that devoted town. I was amazed to learn that several thousands of the inhabitants still remained, hiding in their cellars.

‘ln all the invaded districts in France and Belgium the result has been largely the same, and wo are almost daily receiving chldren who., after months of living in cellars, are in a pitiable condition, and whom it is hard to rescue from tubercular and other diseases incident to exposure and dampness in the holes in. which they have lived or months. They have all suffered greatly from lack of nourishment. ‘The children under the care of the committee come from every quarter of the war zone. They arrive tagged about as parcel post packages, without homo, without country and without friends or family.’ The committee maintains centres in , , _ various parts of France.

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