A Press communique [issued in Delhi on March 18] says: The Indian Soldiers’ Board have taken up at the request of the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab on the question of assisting the helpless widows and dependants of Indian soldiers in that province. The high prices prevailing and the unfavourable agricultural conditions of the present year had rendered their position of acute distress. Immediate relief was considered to be necessary and the Indian Soldiers’ Board have obtained the agreement of the committee of the Imperial Indian Relief Fund to place the sum of Rs. 2,00,000 at the disposal of the Punjab Government for the relief of necessitous cases of this nature.
