NEED IN BELGIUM.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1916, Page 5

NEED IN BELGIUM.

APPEAL TO THE EMPIBE. ' ■ W London, Nov. 8. Vhe Lord Mayor of London has cabled 4i Chrißtmas appeal to the Empire on t>ebalf of two and a half million Belgian ebildren, of whom one and a quarter million under 12 years of age have been held captives by the Germans for over two yean, and only kept alive by the humaitfe intervention of the Neutral Belief Commission, which has distributed tlfr bare minimum of food provided by f til! Allied-Governments. T'.vo years of intolerable captivity are beginning to tell a dreadful tale. Tuberculosis is rapidly increasing and ricketts is becoming epidemic; Babies born are painfully less in weight and measurement, and hunger, suffering, and sickness has fallen on both mother and child. The Lord' Mayor urgently asks that on every British dinner table on Christmas Say an envelope of mercy be placed, in which, as a thank offering for security •hi comfort, everyone shall put what he , etUfpare to gave the oppressed Belgian children by providing thi additional . nourishment, whereby alone the ravages of tuberculosis can be stayed. . .Envelopes are obtainable at the branches of the National Committee throughout the Empire.