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The Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund reaches the astonishing figure of £1,000,000 within a week.
It was on
7 August that the Prince of Wales made an urgent appeal in The Times:
"All must realise that
the present time of deep anxiety will be followed by one of considerable
distress among the people of this country least able to bear it. We must earnestly pray that their suffering
may be neither long nor bitter, but we cannot wait until the need presses
heavily upon us. The means of relief must be ready in our
hands. To ally anxiety will go some way to stay distress. A National Fund has been founded, and I am
proud to act as its Treasurer. My first duty is to ask for generous and
ready support, and I know that I shall not ask in vain. At such a moment we all stand by one
another, and it is to the heart of the British people that I confidently make
this earnest appeal. Edward." The British Medical Journal apologises for its reduction in size. "The main reason for this curtailment is the shortage of paper, which has become a very serious difficulty for the periodical press. The consumption is greater owing to the enormous demand for the many editions of the newspapers, and the supply has greatly diminished owing to the stoppage of exports of paper and material from the Continent and the other side of the Atlantic. The supplies from the latter source will, it is hoped, shortly increase ..."
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