BELGIUM.
AN APPEAL FOR AID. million and a half people STARVING. Received Sept. 24, 8.36 p.m. London, Sept. 23. The Lord Mayor has issued an earnest appeal to the city of London for funds to assist the Belgians, In Belgium over l'/i million people are utterly destitute, and their only escape from destitution is to work upon munitions for Germany, but they prefer hunger and death to assisting the enemy. Feeding IVu million, at five pence per day, costs £218,000 weekly. No doubt if food is not sent the Germans will allow the Belgians to starve, and shoot them down if hunger riots break out.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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105BELGIUM. Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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