TO AMERICAN MOTHERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 7

TO AMERICAN MOTHERS.

TRAGIC MESSAGE FROM THE

QUEEN OF RUMANIA

The following meatsa^ 6 rom tne Qv^ .of Rumaoia, who is a grand-d.^ugnter of Queen Victoria, to the women, of America haa a patlietic interest, it vas written last year, before ■ Rumania was faced with a still more tragic situation. Queen Marie wrote >.~ "Since my country, ha« especially suffered from the war,' l, have bad to put myself at the head of many forma of ser%'ice, especially for the orphans ; tor a woman m time of stress "should be able to show the way to her nation. Nowhere am I more sure of finding real sympathy and comprehension than among l the American women,' who have themselves jplayed so noble a part m the life of Hihfiir country. *"My Rumania has been called to 4rink to ilhe very dregs the bitterness of war. "Not only have our hrave men, to the rmmber of 200,000, given their lives m "battles, but also their homes families — and especially the little cnildren have Jiad to pay the greater price of continuilnjgr to live amid such hunger and cold •arid sickness-and need a« are incompre'Ji^nstble to women of America.

"Oh? hearts are .not dismay^, even though <mr bodies suffer cruelly. RuTOania will stand fast to the ena — and I hope that the pomen of America will iielp mo td Keep ifoe children alive, for the great to-morrow that is coming to us nil after ■ the war. — Your'e m the FelWwsMp of the Mother Heart, Marie, <Queen of Rumania."

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