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FREE TRANSPORTATION
FOR BELGIAN SUPPLIES
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refugees in Holland Once In Belgium
we camo across stream OF poor people
pouring back into Antwerp In every
conceivable kind of, conveyance and on
foot. They carried their babies aud
belongings.
Between Antwerp anu NIalines the
destruction OF habitations in every
town and hamlet was practically uni
versal Families were living In par
TALLY burned buildings or in :mpro-
Niscd structures The suffering Is in
tense and food supplies practically do
not exist.
The news I brought TO the central
committee In Brusscls-that 10000 tons
OF cereals, purchased by the American
commission for the immediate relief Of
the situation In Belgium, were en-
route from England to Rotterdam
spread quickly among the people OF
Brussels and in the neighboring dis
tricts. The announcement was timely,
for in many sections the inha bitants
wero growing restless. forcseeing GER
tain famine.
SOUP KITCHENS ONLY SOURCE
For 80 PER GENT OF PEOPLE
LAS more than so per cent OF the
Brussels population now 1.-Two entirely
on soup and bread, which Is distributed
to them daily. and on potatoes. which
they receive only onco per week, the
doomed large Friday and Saturday
last many OF the well-to-do people in
Brussels had no bread. / could not
buy any myself at any price but for
tunately the poor got thcir meagre
supply through the soup Kitchens.
The central committee In Brussels
for the last three weeks have been re-
ceiving appeals imploring immediate
assistance from many parts Of Belgium
They have pumped new courage into
the people with the news that food Is
Icing brought TO them through the
American commission.
Saturday two delegates from Cap
tain It. Il. Lucey. the commissions Rot
terdam Representatives, arrived in Drus-
sells with the information that the first
food shipped had arrived In Rotterdam
and that supplies had been loaded into
small steamers and lighters and were
to leave BY canal by way OF Antwerp
for Brussels Sunday. IL those who are
giving generously In America could
have shared the joy of Brussels when
IL heard thiH news they would have
been moro than repaid for the many
SACRIFICES which generosity on such
scale must entail.
GRATITUDE OF THE PEOPLE
For AMERICAN HELP
Monday as I traced by way back
through devastated Belgium l passed
on the frontier OF Holland our lighters
with the grain that will bring hope
ard life to these afflicted people. They
constantly express their undying graft
tude for American help and sym patty.
Without America they feel they would
be crushed out OF existence by famine
and war"
MT. Shaler brought with him a letter
written by Field Marshal Baron Kol-
mar Won dor Golts, military governor
q the occupied part OF Belgium. to
RI Id l1olf -
belgium. regarding tho relief work.
Baron Won der Goltz in his letter well
comes tho Undertaking OF the Amerl-
can COMMITTEES and gives assurances
that tho food imported by tho commit
tee will be kept exclusively for the
use OF the Belgian civil population. that
IT will be exempt from requisition by
the military authorities and that it will
remain entirely at the disposal of the
committee.