The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-30
U. S. MINISTER AT BRUSSELS
Will DISTRIBUTE RELIEF
Food And Employment Problems Will
Be Serious In Winter-German Gov.
ernment Issues Orders Not u stop
Food TraIns for Suffering Non-com.
batants-Antwsrp Not seriously In
Iursd. l8

London, Oct. 27AThe expedition |
and thoroughness with which the
American Commission for Belgian re-
lief is arranging to distribute food
among the sorely stricken people of
Belgium are shown in the following
telegram which Herbert G. Hoover,
Chairman of the commission, received
today from Capt. 7. F. Lucey, who is
in Rotterdam arranging for the ship
ment of supplies into Belgium:
II have made arrangements to ship
by river steamer the first consignment
of supplies. We can unload the steam
er from England three hours after
arrival here. All details have been
arranged with the Dutch Government
for allowing food supplies to cross the
Dutch frontier, and all facilities will
be given us for their importation.
Food To U. S. ConsuIs.. -"
The American and German Consuls
here are actively cooperating with
me. l have received $50 cards,
stamped. by the German Government
in Berlin, instructing all their authori-
ties to allow food to be forwarded
without any interference to the Amer
lean Minister at Brussels for the des-
titute Belgians."
Millard X. Shaler, who also is in Rot
terdam, sent the following telegram,
, Summarizing his investigation into
the situation and showing the urgent
J need of relief:
IL visited The Hague today, and
4 saw Henry Van Dyke, the American
Minister, who last Saturday and Sun
l day personally visited Antwerp and
: other places in Belgium. Mr.. Van
, Dyke said:
i. Holland May Suffer.
a The problems of food and employ
Z ment in Belgium during the winter are
z going to be very serious. 1t is possible
that the problem of food even here in
|. Holland may be difficult
d 81. gather that Antwerp is not much
O damaged, but even there the problems
n of water supply, food and employment
a are acute. Waelhem, Malines, Duffe'
, and Lierre are reduced to ruins anC
9 cannot receive back more than one
theird of their original populations
, The resumption of Industries in small
q towns is impossible, and great por
ton of the land under cultivation ha
g been laid waste.
= Henry Albert Johnson, the American
= Consul at Ghent, is visiting here tc
, day. He says the need of food is YER
a great He will heartily cooperate Il
q it's distribution.
Dutch Aid Refugees.
p, zone of the members of the Bru'
~ sells committee arrived here froI
Brussels this morning. Hi urged in
;, mediate relief for the suffering rop'
ar lation. particularly those in Brussels
! Charleroi, and their neighborhoods.
u minister van Dykes tour of inve
:, tigation reveals the fact that, Will
y. the Dutch, people have risen magnii
Gently to the task of caring for Be
gian refugees now in Holland, gre'
distress continues.
AT Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoo
there are two camps with 25,Oo0 Bt
. gian refugees, mostly women. Mar
. of them have tiny babies or larg
q children. Their condition is pitif'
. They are terrified; they have no mo
. ey. There are various kinds of !
. nesses among these refugees, but
= epidemics,"