To the Editor of the "Norva-Cuiva Daty News."
Sir,—According to recent news from Budapest the conditions there are terrible. There is a shortage of nearly every commodity necessary to ordinary _siniple life, And into this struggle for existence, which is sharpened to a battle on life or death, helpless and innocent children are born to parents, who have got literally nothing to give them.
The tiny mites are wrapped up in paper and rags. From ithe lack of nutritious food for the mothers, the children get abnormally tender skins and there are no ointments With which to ease their small blistered bodies. The soap used—where soap can be had at all—is chiefly made of clay and causes horrid skin-diseases. The sufferings of these small innocent beings can hardly be imagined.
When we then think of our own happy and healthy babies, the question forces itself upon us: "Can't we help these poor things wrapped in paper and rags?"
Help has been sent from Eng-Jand, France and Switzerland, but ere are still 10,000 babies crying in their rags, and the cold winter will come before any radical change in the conditions is likely to occur.
Through your honourable paper, beg to appeal to your readers to help to relieve the sufferings of some of these babies by contributing money, which will be turned into the most necessary of baby-clothing, soap and ointments and sent to Budapest via "Union Internationale de Serours auc Enfants" in Bern, which is the international organization of the British "Save the Children."
I am, ete, 668 Avenue Joffre Shanghai, July 29.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.