THE BELGIAN CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 8

THE BELGIAN CAMPAIGN.

GREAT SUCCESS ACHIEVED

HUNDREDS ASSISTING.

QUANTITIES OF ' CLOTHING.

FUNDS LARGELY INCREASED.

ADDITIONAL DONATIONS.

Two instances of atrocious cruelty in German soldiers are described in a letter written from Ostend by Miss Beatrice E. D. Maunder, a New Zealand lady who is now engaged in Red Cross work in Belgium. Miss Maunder remarks that some of the accounts of outrages by Germans may have been exaggerated, but she has personal knowledge of the cases described in her letter. A woman and a little child were seized by seme German soldiers. The child was taken by its legs, and while the mother was forced to watch its agony, it was torn in pieces. The mother was not killed, but her reason was completely destroyed. Another patient at the Belgian hospital visited by Miss Maunder was a raving madman. With eight or nine other Be! giana he was seized at Cambrai, and all were tied to a wall. The others were all tortured and finally killed, while the survivor was continuously tormented by the spectacle of their suffering and the threat "It will be your turn next." Finally he was released by the jeering Germans, and though he had suffered no physical injury his reason had been destroyed by the awful experience.

A letter from England, dated October 9, shows the need for help in providing the Belgian refugees with food and clothing. "We have over 100,000 Belgian refugees here," it runs, "and 50,000 more are on the way. We have to put, them in public buildings, and down at Purley we took empty houses, put in bedding, cooking utensils, etc., and provided them with food. They are utterly destitute, and bear the marks of their terrible sufferings. Many of the women have lost their children, and many of the children their parents. Old men of 60 to 80 years of age had been hiding in the woods for 10 days with hardly any food, and scanty clothing, and are in a. pitiable condition." Harbour Board Donation. - The Auckland Harbour Board yesterday voted £250 to the Belgian Relief Fund. The chairman, Mr. J. H. Gunson, pointed out that under the War Contributions Validation Act, 1914, No. 2, there was sufficient authority for the board making a donation, providing the Governor approved of the fund to which it was to be handed over. The donation would therefore have to be a provisional one. The A. and P. Association has decided to devote half the net profits of the show which commences on November 26. The auctioneers will then hold a sale of the articles which have been sant in for the Belgian Fund. Among the lots received are a horse and cart, a cow, a mare and foal, a goat, a donkey, two parrots, three canaries, hens, ducks, pigeons, three bicycles, a meat safe, a sofa, a pair of step ladders, and a cultivator. Dogs and cats of all kinds have been given in great numbers. The idea of holding a sale is considered I a good one, and people are invited to I submit articles likely to fetch good prices to any of the auctioneers who are selling on that day or the secretary of the fund, Mr. W. Hunter, or to any member of the committee. It is hoped to make this one of the largest sales ever held at the Epsom grounds. Benefit Entertainments. The girls' branch, of the Victoria League ' has taken His Majesty's Theatre for Satur- | day, November 28, to provide an entertainment for the fund. | The Celtic Society's concert, which will Ibe held in the Town Hall to-night, proi raises to be a powerful attraction. It is • under the patronage of the Mayor and the i Consuls for Belgium, France, and Russia and the military officer commanding the district. The pupils of the Marist Brothers and convent schools are among j the performers. j The Auckland Orchestral Society's fourth | concert takes place to-morrow nin the ! Town Hall, and all the cash proceeds will I be donated to the Belgian Relief Fund. I Tickets are being sold at Wildman and ! Arey's. { This evening, in the Town Hall concert ' chamber, the Salvation Army will hold a ; musical festival in aid of the fund. Three | bajids will take part. A vocal and instrumental concert, J arranged by Mr. H. Barry Coney, will be given in the concert chamber on November 23. The children in the various schools are contributing in a generous maimer. The \ committee hoped to receive assistance | from them amounting to about £500, but !as they have already attained the £600 j figure, it is hoped that they may even j reach £1000.

" Clothing Day."

The central depot in connection with ] " Clothing Day " continues to bo an ex- , tremely busy place. Many extra helpers ! had to be employed yesterday, about 120 altogether being engaged. The freight cars were again in use during the day, and all kinds of conveyances were called into requisition. Sixteen clerks from insurance offices and between 30 and 40 boy scouts also assisted. Mr. Stewart Milne states that already 156 cases are ready for shipment, but it is expected that fully 500 cases will bo despatched. The Harbour Board has provided accommodation for the overflow from the central depot. The committee, which now values the goods at £20,000, has increased the insurance, which has been given by the local companies free up to £10,000. Church Collections. The collection taken up at St. Matthew's Church on Sunday amounted to £21. During the year the Girls' Friendly Society has been collecting for its annual picnic, and it recently decided to hand the whole amount to the Belgian Fund, and this was included in the collection. At the Methodist Mission a retiring collection was taken, and realised £10. The collections taken up at Newmarket on Friday included the following amounts :—Railway Workshops, £30; H. B. J. Bull, £5 ss; F. J. Benwell, £5; Master Roland Brown, who had saved the amount in pennies, £1 Is. Acting-Consul's Fund. The Acting-Consul's Fund now totals £16.578, details of the latest contributions being as follows: — £ s. d. Proceeds of cafe chantante and fancy dress ball held at Hairini, first instalment 45 0 0 Auckland Harbour Board workers, yard and quarries ... 20 3 0 Employees H. E. Partridge and Co 20 0 0 Staff of Grand Hotel 17 3 6 Roman Catholic Church, Otaliuhu, and children's pennies 17 0 0 Further sum received from [ Onehunga Street Collection... 16 15 5

Lady dispenser, lady repcrin " '****%. "I tenaent sisters, 17 nnrses ,> V *.!| Auckland Hospital . ~ „-•! 3 Steff of Union S.B. Co. ' J5 £ «- 1 Birkenhead Methodist Church 5 & and Sunday-school ... 10 n Br sale of box of chocolate by ° 3 lady sympathiser ' * ~ ; A few past members of Auck- 0 - land Grammar Schools ~ „ „ Onehunga Methodist- Church 00 per the Rev. Dukes ... ' ' 1(n . . E.E.H., " Bean-bali " ... -ft « 0 i East Street Methodist Church 0 $ Mission -. " -' r . . - 10 0 0 Sports Committee, R.M.S. Niagara * n 7s 6d ; donation by children of KTU «, 8 picnic fund, £7 l ss 8d ; net proceed, ' verdale Glee Club concert, £7 w S j l * Drury Presbyterian Church. £^ m' Employees Central Hotel. £6 in ?- ; ployees Laidlaw Leeds £6 7 >c • K„Vf tT?.' £5 ss; Tremvith Brother, socon/'^ 1 ' tion, £5; Miss M. I. I v „ d ° na Silverdale school children 'sale of C fl ~ S ' bottles, etc., £5; \V T * £sm"*Struthers and Co.. Ltd.. £5-*Vj« t- "? Bull, £5; Mi,, K. X. £~7] £S pB" S ' Methodist Chard., per R c 'v > [° 39 £4 6s lid; collection Kden' Te^' 8 ' Methodist Church. £4 0? 6d • Em-,?/™* 8 Thompson and Hills. £}• "<■> pf, '?1 S Convent, £4; St. 'Enoch ? I'.,«hvt 8 Church, £3 10s; .X .1 ' [> ' c,'?" Auckland Methodist Musi , n "sundaV school scholars prize-montv. £2 in", the ictoria Bowling Club." visitor* .i members, £2 3s: H. and (iR £2 in Mr. and Mrs. H. Wethc-rilt'. £2 m? 1 M. Bell, £2; Northampton Boot Factory Employees, second donation. £2- M. hers and Employees Wy. 7=^l, "j Saddlery Company. Ltd.. £1 n,. Z .?tS residents Port Albert, £1 Vs: Baby TO ■ £1 Is; Back-block Sympathiser £1 if.' H. H. Norton, £1 Is; Mr. and' Mm „• J. Bayly, first donation, £1 Qs fid ' Mother and Daughter, T. TI. R T> V : Northcote child's black hen, Mr/ fe Jackson and Russell (to provide "for 7n' Belgian family for one week, Mm I Nicholls, £1 each; collation Ed,„ V r « ao Methodist Sunday-school. 17 a in,/." All Saints' Sunday-school, B : rVp7,},„ */ Fireworks Money, 17 s 6d : BirW,?' Methodist Sunday-school, 13 a p 36 Ben Sanderson. Heather and' Brace i -Mother, Earle K. Savage diirti.da- mm . 10s each ; St, Phillips Sunday-School %'* Heliers, 10s; C. Gotherd, iirst pTiS of bix, 10s 6d ; sale of three ha 4 wood 9,; Sympathiser, J.K., 03 each; Mary Thorn. ss: Rollie Bailey. 5 S 6d. ™ tj 1 fhvi na Stre€ ., Colj€ct!cn handed in by the Mayoress Mrs. Blomfield. £472!. Colonial Ammunition Company vk' Ponsonby Baptist Church, £13' 2, ."""J £10%, "' ° f J if" ap ' k0 Creamery, X'lU 2s sd; Epsom Baptist Church, -'A! Auckland Lithographio Society, ' £>'. Earthenware Pipe Company. Ltd £5 <»! per Mr. A. 1). Hawkesby, £5 p'er john Leighton, Parawera Creamery, £4 iq 3 . staff Alf. Buckland and Sod, weekly con I tribution, £3 16s 9d; Mdmerley Collet Parnell, £3 ss; Leadiard and Kincsford' £2 2s; employees T. Napier, second contribution, 15s; Bad Half-sovereign, jjj 6s; additional subscription, Bayfield Sun-day-school, 4s 6d; Erank E." Hockley £1 Is. J '

Collected by Miss J. O. Brooks, U Newcombe, .and T. Whit worth at Gordon total £36 7s 6d, as under:—Gordon Ladies' Guild, first instalment, £6 10<6dF. Montague, £2 10s; J. C. Brooks, ±2 10s; 8. i. Clark, A/2 10s; W. Newsome £2 10s; J. Sheehan, £2; 1. Cowan, £2 2s; G. Newsome. £1 10s; H. Sheat, £1 10s; J. Masey, £1; Mrs. Foughey, £1; O. McKearney, £1; 1. M. Smith, £1; h! W. Scales, £1 C. Clark, £1; J. Sheat. £1 A. Wattford, £1; A. E. Creig, £1; J. Connell, £1; T. Whatworth, 10s; Mrs! J. Carroll, Kte; G. Martin, 10s; T. (Jhesscll, ' 10s; Sirs. A. Bird, 10s; Mrs. J. Carroll, ss.' The Eesponse in Epsom. Mr. R. P. Towie, the treasurer for the Epsom fund, has handed to the ActingConsul a futher sum of £230 0s 6d, making the total to date of this fund £476 0s 6d. Details of the principal contributions are as. follows:F. Dean Bamford, £25; Felix McGuire, £10 10s; J. J. O'Brien, £10 10s; F. Leslie, £10 10s; 'fie Pines, £10 10s; Mrs. J. Richmond, £10; Sympathiser, £10; R. P. Towle, £5 bs; M. J. Bucklajid, £5; C. E. Hem us, £5; Mr. and Mrs. Noakes, £5; T. Barstow, £5; Jean A. Bamford, £5; Beryl Richmond, £5; Jessie Craig, £5; F. H.Wood, £5; W. J. Cor kill, £5; T. L. Caley, £3 3s; Arch. Peak, T. Buxton, D. P. .11 eCormick, Collector, J. C. Grierson, £2 2s each; M. A. J. Coppin, Miss Buckland, J. Grandison, Miss Grandison, J.E.W., W. A. Sandsburg, L. B. Kenton, Fredk. Flavail, £2 each; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Frater, £1 lis 6d; Mrs. Finer, £1 2s; A. F. McKay, J. R. Lyle, E. D. Frater.. Lieutenant-Colonel Morrow, Mrs. Walk ; late, Dr. Stanley Smith, Woch Sin, W. A. i Worrall, W. E. Owen, "Smith," Mrs. | Hesketh, D. R. C. Mowbray, Mrs. G. ! W. Bull, Mr. C. V. Bull, W. J. S. j Mead, £1 Is each; Mrs. Dr. Monk, 0. I M. T. O'Connor, E.J.M., Mrs. A. Peak, > J. A. Berniiter, T.H.P., Wm. Edgerley, ! John Edgerley, W. Dawson, A Bevins, Mrs. King, J. Bryan, Dorothy, Gladys, and Keith Stewart, Miss Thompson, Mis. Barftgwanath, Mrs. C. F. Shepherd, Sympathiser, D. McKenzie, Harry Hawker, I£l each; Anonymous, 17s 6d -. Mrs. M. j Blake, 15s, Kukri, 12s, W. Wilson, Mrs. ' Richardson, Mrs. Lymer, O. Roberts, 10s' ' 6d each ; E. Pascoe (second payment), O. ; E. Bowling, Eric Watkins, Miss King, i Mr. Wright, D. W. Young, Mrs. Phillips, j A Friend, C. Winter, S. Williams, E. G. | Boon, C. K. Keesing. Mrs. Crabtree, Friend, H. McKenzie, Sympathiser, Sympathy, 10s each. School Children's Fund. Details of the school children's help fund are as follows:—Brought forward, £550 16s 6jd; Whananaki, 15s 8d ; Rawene, £3 13s; Omapere, £1 10s; Kuaotunu, £1 7s 2d; Kennedy Bay, via Driving Creek. £1 Is 9d; Kaihu, £2 ss; Mataitai, £3 10s; Weymouth, £1 12s 4d; " Mawhia, lis 6d;' Ngongotaha, 15s; To L'ku, 15s Id; St Joseph's School, Rotorua, £1 3s; Saies, i £1 7s 4d; Kawakawa, £3 lis Id Waiau 1 Pa, £1; Oruaiti, £1 4s 6d; Paraoanui, . ' £2 4s ; Piriaka, £1 10s 6d ; Te Puke, £2 6s; Takou and Otaroa, 15s 9d; Glenberre, 17s; Waimamaku, 7s 6d; St. Mary's Convent, £5 ss; Rotoiti Native School, £2 16s; Ngararatunua, £2 7s; Wainui Kaukapaka, £1; Omahine Matamata, £1; Avondale, £20; Whangarata, £2 0s 3d ; Taupaki School, £2 3s. | Stock presented to the fund and sold by | Messrs. A. Buckland and Sons free of charge realised the following amounts:— One black pony, presented by Miss Brody, ; £25 10s; one bay gelding, presented by i Mr. C. Po<>ley, £20 10s; one bull, pre- : sented by Mr. W. K. Kay, Panmure. £4 12s 6d; three hoggets, presented by I Thompson and English, £4 10 ; : one heifer. ' presented by Mrs. T. Ovens, Mangere, £4 ss; two dogs, presented by Kelly Bros., £1 15s. Further sums collected in boxes placed in various hotels are :—Manukau lermiuus, £1 10s; Star, Otahnh'i. £1 2s 8d; Ellerslie, £1 0s lOd; Panmure, 16s "d; Prince Albert, Terminus, 12s lid ; Railway Terminus, 10s 8d ; Hibernian, Sd ; making a total of £5 13s 4d. Remuera Contributions. The campaign in the Remuera district has been completed, except that amounts promised, but not yet paid, lemain to be : collected, It has realised subscriptions in cash amounting to £13G1 14s, of which £1350 has been paid to the Belgian Consul. When all the promised amounts have been received, the district's contribution will exceed £1500. Further contributions to the Remuera fun 1 are an folio » ;—Mr F. Peacock, second contribution, £6; Mr Geo. Dearslev £5 ss: Mrs. and Mr. Herbert Deanlev. £5 ss; W. W. B'.uce, £5 s': Mr. and Mrs. Cboycc, £5; Dr. Aubin. £-■ 3s: Mr. Levien, £3, Father Doyle, £2 2s. L A. Loj.guet, second contribul:'>n. £2 2* : MrsHolt, £2; A.8., £2: 8.5.R.. £.2: ■}• I Finlavson, £1 10s: Mrs. E. Finlayson, £1 10s; Mrs. T. M. Finlayson, £l Is: Mrs. E. Finlavson, £1 Is; N. W. Hedges. £1 • Mrs. D.; £1; Mrs. Pond, £1: Mary Stevenson, £1; T. Finlayson, 10s; Master ; Finlayson, 10s: E.M.H., 10s: Joy 4 ® I Stevenson, 10b ; Brian Stevenson, 10s. I The following donations to the Belgian 1 Relief Fund have been received by Mr. H. A. Yocknev, town clerk at Onehunga;-. Onehunga Bowling Club, £6 5s 9d : Employees Onehunga Woollen Works, £5 7s 3d;" Messrs. Pople and Creamer, £«; J. Stoupe, £3; the Misses Wall, £1 10s; G. , E. Wharton, £1 Is; J. Bowe, £1.