LAND AND WATER 
December 12, 19 14 
IF YOU HAD 
SEEN THE 
REFUGEES 
LAND 
IF you had actually stood on the 
quayside and watched the pitiful 
crowd filing down the gangways 
— if you could have looked into the 
eyes and the hearts of those poor 
people who had lost all that they 
held dear in the world, how quickly 
you would have tried to help and 
comfort them. How your heart 
would have gone out to those tragic 
sad-eyed women and little, lost, 
shivering children, to the poor old 
grandfathers and grandmothers sud- 
denly torn from the peaceful homes 
of which they were so proud, and 
plunged into that hell of blood and 
ruin and fire at Antwerp or Malines. 
Money ? You would have 
emptied your purse and your pockets 
, . ^ ^_ . there and then. Gladly would you 
have given anything you possessed if only you could have helped those stricken souls in 
their hour of agony. 
WILL YOU HELP THE BELGIANS NOW, 
WHEN THEIR NEED IS GREATEST? 
SEND what you can to the Daily Telegraph Fund, and please send it quickly. There 
are many who do not realise how urgent the necessity is — good-hearted folk who really 
mean to send a substantial sum next week or the week after. But hungry children 
cannot wait. Destitute families who need warmth and shelter cannot wait. Your charity 
must be swift if it is to be effective. Give what you can to-day. Do not hold back because 
you feel you could give more in a few days' time. Whatever you can afford — even if it is only 
a shilling — please send it without waiting. Do you see the blank space at the foot of this 
appeal ? It is put there as a reminder — as something for you to fill — just as you would fill the 
hands and the mouths of those little Belgian children if only you were there among them. 
Please cut it out — pin a postal order to it, write your name and address 
on it and send it to the Daily Telegraph by the first post you can catch. 
Cheque! or postal order* thoiild be orotscd 
"London and South Western Bank" and be 
made payable to " The Daily Teletfrapb Fund." 
Treasury notea abould be aent in rcitstered 
envelopea. All letteri ahould be addressed to 
the Editor, "The Daily Ttleiraph." Fleet Street, 
B.C.. and the envelopes clearly marked " Belgian 
Fund." 
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