HELP FOR THE CHILDREN OF RUSSIAN REFUGEES. (To THE EDITOR
OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At a meeting held at the House of Commons on March 29th, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, the Minister of Education, made a strong appeal for help to raise the funds necessary for the care, training and education of 1,000 Russian children at Constanti- nople. This work is being carried out by the Russian Relief and .Reconstruction Fund. Mr. Fisher dwelt on the supreme import- ance of this endeavour, which was not merely that of emergency relief but which aimed at saving completely a remnant from the moral and mental chaos into which Russia has fallen. For the sake of the future of their country, which must eventually take its proper place in the comity of nations, it was urgently necessary that as many of the coming generation as possible should, in school-homes under British control, in which every breath of sound Russian atmosphere was retained, be built up into healthy manhood, made mentally vigorous and morally sane, and filled with high endeavour to serve their Fatherland. Mr. Fisher said in the course of his speech, " I make a most urgent appeal to the country, and more particularly to that part of the public which is concerned with education, and is never slow to manifest its sympathy with sound educational endeavour, to lend its support to this excellent and necessary work of salvage." £25 keeps a child for one year. Cheques may be sent to Commander Oliver Locker Lampson, M.P., or Lt.-Col. John Ward, M.P., at the House of Commons.—We are, Sir, &c.,
ULLSWATER.
JOHN WARD.
OLIVER LOCKER LANNON.
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