The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
AMERICANS SUPPLYING
100000 MEALS DAILY.
Plans Incomplete for Extending
Scope of Relief Work In
Belgium.
MORE SUPPLIES NOW ON WAY
People Able to Pay Charged 5 Cents
for Meals Costing 15 Cents-I,ich
and Poor Stand in Line Together
Waiting for Food.

LONDON, November 6 $3.50 p. M
provisions sent to Brussels by the
American commission for the relief of
beiglum already are supplying 100000
meals daily, and plans arc incomplete
Tor carrying on n similar work through
out that part of Belgium occupied by
the Germans.
The Dutch steamer handbook will
sail Tonight with 1000 tons of food,
and the steamer Tellus is expected to
leave tomorrow with 1,7o0 tons of
wheat. 'Hr
Herbert Clark Hoover, chairman of
the American commission, to-day re-
ceived the following telegram from
Captain T. II. Lucey, the commission
representative mt Rotterdam:
. banghorne, Wyman and Bell morris
Lnnghorne. secretary of the American
legation to the Netherlands and
Luxembourg, e. NJ: Wyman, member of
the relief commission, and Edward
Bell, second secretary of the Ameri-
can embassy Mt Londono have returned
from Brussels, where 100000 meals q
day are being issued. People able to
pay are charged 5 cents for the meals.
The meals cost 10 cents, and Bell says
that rich and poor stand In line, as II
is the only way they can get food.
Some uneasiness is felt here by Bel
CLANS as the result of quotations from
he seized by tho military authorities.
have assured them that>the supplies
would como, regardless of these sup
positions.
"Whitlock brand Whitlock. Ameri-
can minister to Belgiuml is personally
supervising and compiling the detailed
needs OF the various districts to be
forwarded to you" -
ALL EMERGENCIES
nIyTNE u x,V,
I That all emergencies are being fore
stalled is evident from note issued
by the central committee In Belgium,
saying the commission will have a
delegate In each province to see that
food shipments arrive Intact, and who
must be informed OF any infraction by
the German troops of guarantees given
by Field Marshal Baron Won der Goltz.
military governor OF the occupied por-
ton of Belgium.
/, AT meeting OF the Belgian central
committee, Ernest Solvay, the Belgian
manufactures, who Is member of this
committee. thanking the American and
Spanish ministers and the American
commission for service rendered to Bel
GUM. said that the. population OF Bel
GUM was at the point where famine
and fear of disaster was. universal.
Thanks to the Americans, he said. they
have overcome. at least for the time
being, the terrible position in which
Joseph Botognc, Belgian Deputy and
member OF the Nampr Town Council,
and A. Jourenz,s Deputy and member of
the ELiege Town Council. In u signed
statements 'sent to ,thetcotnHissiof1, says:
+ "Wesihaye rud e " isu Tered. After Che
atrocities md .horrors3of war, we now
are threatened by famine. The Ger
man armies have livod on our soil by
'requisitioning -vlctuals. Our produc-
-tioh OF grain normally is hardly suni-
Client for NTH OF the consumption.
The maritime route being closed for
the import OF grain. our country would
fatally be famished in n very short
time. Solely for Liege and It's environs
1900 bags OF grain are necessary each
day. At tho moment of writing we
hardly have grain enough for few
days.
without the generous assistance of
the United States, 1t would mean for
us famine. We have suffered enough.
AT least, let this misfortune be spared
U.S.. we are convinced that, YOU will
symphthize with 6 our uhdeserved
miseries."