Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-07
CRAP PHIC PICTURE OF BELGIUM WOE TOLD
 BY MAXINE ELLIOTT
She Describes Conditions of Re- fugeeS and NarraIeS Experi- enCeS Encountered While Dis tributing Relief From Barge.

DUNKIRE. France. April G. still vigorously pushing her relief work close 10 the battle lines in Flanders, Maxine Elliott reports finding the Belgian refugees stuffed like sardines in the barns even in the pigtsys and hen houses-in fact any place that has a roof"
 "l have still not been able to find any shelter for my ambulance within a radius of ten miles" she said to an Associated Press correspondent vhc found her on that vehicle. ankle deep in mud and dripping withlrain
 "I stuff the anlbdlauceAfuH daily with food and clothing, she couti- nued. end make the piuful round Of os many cases as ! can
 'I recently wrote an open letter to My Own Couutrywomen in England for aid. but only English people res bonded From England l got a little over S3,00O in cash and between SsO,, 0e0 and S35,O0o wort of stuff for the barge"
 The "baree" is the Julia which the American actress herself conduct ed through the. canals from Calais 10 fine remote corners of West Flanders. to reach the starving refugees be- tween the fighting fronts
 "I can hardly describe to you the pitiful condition of these poor rpfu- gees she continued "Only today we have clothed twelve families from top co toe, from len 10 fourteen peo- pie in each family lt is impossible for them to ind shelter and they are stuffed like sardines in the barns. even in the pis-stys and hen hoouses. in fact in any place that has a roof
 "In house close by eighty soldiers sleep on the ground floor. and in tiny room adioining are fragments of several families fifteen people in an. Two ui the children are down with typhoid one on the floor and one in an old biscuit box and this is the sort of thing We encounter daily but we have managed to make a great Improvement in conditions though it .s quite impossible to house them any better There is not enough room for the army and as many civilians as possible are sent away continually but still they come on -shelled out of their homes and bufleted about from one wrctched place to another
 "l have arranged with bakery close by to bake several hundred loayes Of bread a day and yesterday bomb dropped in front of the door, killing a man and three horses. It a hole through one corner of the roof and broke every pane of glass u the bakery. and all the yeast and bread for the days supply had to be thrown away -it was full of glass splinters. Several other bombs were thrown itue further kfling eight little chu- dren and harmless civilians are Che sufferers.
 What horror, horror everywhere the glorious thing called war brings iu its train We see nothing but sad sights and yet the people themselves are not sad lt is Surprising what people can live through. There is a family of i've living in hand cart close by and have been there five months They have roofcd the top over with sackne and a strip of can. vas and there they tuck themselves away and the soldiers feed them or course the military authorities say the refugees are gone now because they don't see them with their ittle bundles crying by the road side, but poor things they have crowded into every available corner and cling to the idea that they may Doe able to