Save the Children

We have received a circular from the Society of Friends, which is unfortunately too long to print in full; it is briefly this:

Famine is threatening the population of Europe, where mothers and children are starving in the German occupied countries, where the foodstuffs are produced on a very small scale and largely exported to Germany and used to feed armies of occupation.

The Society of Friends believes we should be willing to face rationing of food here to help the unfortunate people of Europe and requests us to urge the Government to take action in the matter.

Editor's Note.—Since the circular was issued conditions in India have become infinitely worse. Floods have devastated large parts of Orrissa and we have word of the students and citizens there endeavouring to bring some relief to the suffering peasantry despite the apparent lack of co-operation of the British Government in India. Here is a field to which we are in the position to send immediate aid, without waiting for navicerts.

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