"All the world was in haste to help Belgium. My country now appeals for help. 

 The War, with its iron tramp, has crushed Poland, a country seven times as large as the 

 Kingdom of the heroic Albert. The sword has filled the rivers of this unfortunate coun- 

 try with blood; her sons are compelled to fight in three hostile armies. 



"The War has ruined towns and villages. The spectre of hunger has stretched its 

 arms over the vast land between the Niemen and the Carpathians. Workmen have lost 

 their work, for all the workshops and factories are shut. The plough is rusting from 

 the want of use, for the labourer has been robbed of tools and seed. Tradesmen in 

 towns have no trade, for no one has money to buy their goods. Old men and women in 

 the midst of the hard winter have lost the roofs over their heads. Epidemics spread 

 through the country. The domestic hearth is extinguished, and when children stretch 

 out their thin arms begging for a piece of bread, their mothers can only answer with 

 tears. . . . In such hunger and need are millions." — Henry Senkiewicz. 



SERBIAN RELIEF 



The Serbian minister in London announces that several relief funds in Serbia are 

 sending through him their appeal to all benevolent men and women, fathers and 

 mothers and all philanthropic institutions, painting the suffering of the Serbian refugees, 

 the starvation of the population staying at home in Serbia, the painful scenes of the 

 desperate mothers and frozen children. Many thousands of refugees are dispersed in 

 the villages of Greece, in the Albanian desert or in the rocky hollows of Montenegro, 

 without home, without food. The life of these refugees is now nothing else than a 

 slow dying out. This help will be a real help only if it comes as quickly as possible. 



Contributions for this Fund will be received by the Treasurer of the National Service 

 Committee (Mrs. John Bruce, of Toronto), and forwarded to the London Branch of 

 the Serbian Relief Committee. 



No supplies of food or clothing will be received. 



NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF WOMEN FOR PATRIOTIC 



SERVICE 



(Commonly known as the National Service Committee) 



The officers for 1916 are President, Mrs. A. E. Gooderham, "Deancroft," Toronto; 

 Vice-President Mrs. Torrington; Treasurer Mrs. Bruce, 37 Bleecker Street, Toronto; 

 Secretary, Mrs. Plumptre, 77 King Street East, Toronto. 



The National Service Committee is the channel recognized by the National Relief 

 Committee for the collection and transmission of funds and supplies for "Comforts" 

 for the Canadian Expeditionary Force. 



By courtesy of the Canadian Red Cross Society, and in consideration of a contribu- 

 tion to office and warehouse expenses, these gifts, generally known as "Field Comforts," 

 are collected in the Society's warehouses and forwarded by its packing staff, but these 

 goods are not reckoned as Red Cross goods nor included in its returns; as the Red Cross 

 Society deals only with sick, wounded and prisoners, while "Field Comforts" go to 

 fighting men. 



CANADIAN INDIANS; "PATRIOTISM AND PRODUCTION" 



The Indian population of Canada continue to give evidence of their loyalty by 

 enlisting and contributing liberally to the patriotic or other funds. To the end of 1915 

 their contributions for patriotic purposes amounted to $16,969.00, and an equally good 

 response is being made to this year's call. 



The total Indian population, exclusive of Eskimos, was 103,531 in 1915, and the 

 total income derived from all pursuits was $5,927,595 or $60.48 per capita. The chief 



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