15 DECEMBER 1923, Page 14

THE DISTRESS IN GERMANY.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I want to thank you very sincerely for your goodness in giving prominence to our appeal for Christmas parcels for people of the middle classes in Germany, whose distress at this time is very real. You will, I think, be glad to know that we have already had a very big response from the readers of the Spectator ; 128 parcels came in on one day and some dozens of letters asking for fuller information and suggesting larger gifts. It seems that this parcels scheme has appealed very much to the imagination of a large number of people. We thought it would, and we are thankful to you for giving us the chance of presenting the appeal through your columns.