3 MAY 1945, Page 13

GIFTS FOR HOLLAND

SIR,—I wonder how many of your readers know that gifts of non- perishable food, clothing and other necessities can be sent to, and are gratefully received by, The Royal Netherlands Government, Stratton House, Stratton Street, W. r, or The Help Holland Council, Norman House, Strand, W.C. 2, for despatch to liberated Holland. The Dutch people's need is 'terrible and urgent, and their cause should need no urging. We should not forget the Dutch railway strike, so cour- ageously upheld under German occupation, which helped to limit the number of V weapons to reach this country. So let us send all we can spare of the best we have to give, and then a little more, for we in England have been spared the horror of real hunger and need in this