23 AUGUST 1913, Page 17

GREEK HUMANITY AT SALONICA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Can you spare me space to give the glad news I have just heard that the Greek Government has granted Sister Augustine of Salonica ten sacks of flour per day to feed the starving Bulgarian women and children, and if the numbers increase she is to ask for more ? Ten sacks is about two thousand portions. This is surely a fine action on the part of the Greeks, with such masses of their own wounded on their hands too. For I hear that Salonica is now again one vast ambulance. Eight Sisters of St. Vincent have been lent to them, besides the twenty-five beds put at their disposal in the Sisters' Hospital. The need of all kinds seems beyond the powers of private charity. But if this letter could help to make known the Balkan War Relief Fund, 41 Tothill Street, Westminster, I sluSuld be glad. It is so hard to sit in a well. shaded house, well fed, and think of those others.—I am,