ANGOLA REFUGEES SIR,—May we appeal to your readers for help
for the refugees from Angola, hundreds of whom are dying. An eye-witness writes of disease, dysentery, tuberculosis and leprosy. 'More than half,' lie con- tinues, 'are women and children. . . . I found a seven-year-old boy; the front of his body was three- quarters raw with third-degree burns from a phos- phorus grenade . . . two small children with shrap- nel wounds were huddled in one bed. A lad of twenty had a fifteen-inch bayonet wound through his chest . . . he had been told to stand with his hands behind his back. A soldier had then bayoneted him from behind and thrown him into a river.'
War on Want has established a special, fund to .0 • aid these refugees and undertakes to send every penny contributed direct to their relief, deducting nothing whatever for expenses. Contributions, large or small, will be most gratefully received and should he sent to the Rt. Hon. James Griffiths, MP, Hon. Treasurer, War on Want, 9 Madeley Road, Ealing, London, W5. Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to 'War on Want.' Please enclose with your donation (whether cheque, postal order or cash) a slip of paper marked 'For Angola Appeal.' Even a small donation may save the life of a human being.--Yours faithfully,
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