w find it so
difficult to obtain help. Even in war time, whoever needs our
help is our neighbour, and love of their enemies remains the
distinguishing mark of those who are loyal to our Lord.

We have accordingly decided to establish a Berlin Enquiry and
Assistance Office to work with the corresponding offices at home
and abroad, especially with the above-mentioned Emergency
Committee in London, the Berne and Stuttgart Peace Bureaux, etc.
We beg for help and gifts, which may be sent to the following
address: Berliner Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle fuer Deutsche im
Ausland und Auslaender in Deutschland; communications to be
addressed to Fraeulein Dr. Elisabeth Rotten, Berlin No. 18,
Friedenstrasse 60.

The signatories to this appeal were: Prof. W. Foerster, Ehrich
Gramm (Banker), Dr. Kleineidam (Provost), Eduard de Neufville,
Prof. Rade, Julius Rohrbach (Pastor), Dr. Elisabeth Rotten, Dr.
Alice Solomon, F. Siegmund-Schultze (Pastor), Dr. Spiecker,
Pastor Umfried.

It is important to note that of the families and others helped by the
Committee, the largest percentage (49) were English. Russians made up
24 per cent, and French 9 per cent. (Dr. Elisabeth Rotten's circular of
April, 1916.)

The following documents explain themselves:--Extract from a letter of
Dr. Elisabeth Rotten, dated January 6, 1916.

In spite of the fact that the numbers of permanent workers in
the office and out of it increase all the time, we have work
here from morning to night, often including holidays. But we do
it gladly, for it is a labour of love. At present our chief work
lies in taking home French children from the occupied territory
of France. In Belgium this work is now nearly discharged, and a
lady has only to go there once more, this month, to fetch the
last batch of children. The French children are not fetched by
our delegates; they travel in the larger trains for civilians,
who are brought from the occupied territory of France, through
Switzerland, back into the unoccupied[38] parts. What we now
have to do is to see that the children who had been left behind,
separated from their parents, are reunited with them as quickly
as possible. The children themselves seldom know where their
parents are, but we have the addresses through working in
conjunction with the International "Feminist" Bureau at
Lausan