HELP FOR BELGIAN CHILDREN

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1916, Page 8

HELP FOR BELGIAN CHILDREN

A SPECIAL APPEAU By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. His Excellency the Governor, has received tile following telegram from the Duke of Norfolk, with a request that it be published in the Press throughput the Dominion:—''The Lord Mayor of London, supported by the religious leaders of the nation, has urged that Rt every British dinner-table 011 Christmas Day a collection shall be made to help Belgian children, whose physical and mental sufferings during the last two years are now being barbarously accentuated by the deportation of their natural protectors. This appeal is made with the full approval of His Majesty's Government, and, I feel sure, needs only to be brought to the attention of your readers to receive that loyal response which we. as a nation, have always been proud to give to our ally, and especially our ally's children in distress. Anyone who has read the reports o1 the German slave raids in Belgium will be able to realise the infinite sorrow of the Belgian women and children now left desolate, and in urgent need of such a measure of practical sympathy as shall keep hone alive in their sorely, tried hearts.—(Signed) Norfolk, Chairman, Executive Council, National Committee for Belief in Belgium." All (contributions in response to the above appeal should be sent to the Un-der-Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.