The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915Various
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The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
Various
World War, 1914-1918
I beg your paper to print this, and to start a subscription for this far
corner of France, where the tide of war throws its wreckage. The Winter
is ahead, and with hunger, cold, lack of supplies, and isolation will
create untold suffering. Paris, too, is now sending refugees from its
besieged gates. Every corner is already filled, and hundreds pour in
every day. The garages, best hotels, villas, and cafes are already
filled with "those that suffer for honor's sake." The Croix Rouge does
splendid work for the wounded soldiers, but who will help these victims
of war? Fifty cents will buy shoes for a baby's feet. Ten cents will buy
ten pieces of bread. A dollar will buy a widow a shawl. Who will give?
Deny yourselves some little pleasure--a cigar, a drink of soda water, a
theatre seat--and send the price to these starved, beaten people,
innocent of any crime.
You American women, who tuck your children into their clean beds at
night, remember these children, reared as carefully as yours, without
relatives, money, or future. They will be placed on farms to do a
peasant's work with peasants. These women bereft of all that was dear
face a barren future. These aged men anticipate for their only remaining
blessing death, which will take them from a world which has used them
ill.
America is neutral. Let her remain so, but compassion has no
nationality. We are all children of one Father. Send us help. These poor
creatures hold out to you pleading hands for succor.
NINA LARREY DURYEE.
P.S.--I beg you to publish this. I am the daughter-in-law of the Gen.
Duryee of the Duryee Zouaves, who fought through our civil war with
honor. Our Ambassador, Mr. Herrick, and his wife know me socially. Any
funds you can gather please send to M. Grolard, Marie de Dinard,
Municipality de Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, or to Le Banque Boutin,
Dinard, France.
*A New Russia Meets Germany*
*By Perceval Gibbon.*
[From THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 26, 1914.]
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