The Lord Mayor of London held a meeting at the
Mansion House on Tuesday to call attention to the terrible distress among the refugees of Asia Minor and to the need of continued relief for the sufferers from the Russian Famine. He said that on the shores of Greece, Thrace and Anatolia there were nearly 500,000 men, women and children destitute and starving. These people, who were yesterday the peaceful inhabitants of flourishing towns and villages and of the proud city of Smyrna, were now " the pitiful objects of the world's charity." The Imperial War Relief Fund, the Save the Children Fund and the Friends' Relief Committee, as the Lord Mayor pointed out, have added to their splendid work in Russia, where a million lives have been saved, the duty of helping the victims of the Turko-Greek war. " The cry of a distressed child," exclaimed the Lord Mayor, " must move the coldest heart." For lid. a life can be saved for a day.
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