The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11
BELGI.|ANS LIVE
IN ANY PL.ACE
WITH A ROOF
Relief Worker Says Refugees
Occupy Barns, Pig-Stys
and Even lighthouses.

Correspondence OF Associated Press)
DUNK1RK, France. April 10.
Still vigorously pushing her relief
work close to the battle lines in
Flanders. Maxine Elliott reports
finding the Belgian refugees stuff
ed like sardines in the barns, even in
the pig-styls and hen houses-in fact.
any place that has a roof"
have still not been able to find
any shelter for my ambulance with
in a radius of ten miles" she said
to an Associated Press corresponds
who found her on that vehicle, ankle
deep in mud and dripping with rain.
stuff the ambulance full daily
with food and clothing. = she cons
tinued. y. and make the pitiful round
of as many cases as can.
st recently wrote an open letter
to My Own Countryw omen, in En-
gland, for aid. but only English pto-
pie responded. It was great sur
prise to ME, for 7 thought I might
get help from America and little or
nothing from England. but as usual
the unexpected happened From En-
cash and between $4,000 and s35,-
900 worth Of stuff for the barge
The barge is the Julia which
the American actress herself con
Quoted through the canals from Ca
Flais to the remote corners OF West
Flanders. to reach the starving ref
sugees between the fighting fronts.
can hardly describe to you the
pitifu1 condition Of these poor refu-
gees. she continued. !" Only today w
have clothed twelve families from
top to toe. from ten to fourteen peo-
pie In each family. Tt is impossible
for them to find shelter and they ara
stuffed like sardines In the barns.
even In the pil1-stys and hen houses
In fact. In any place that has roof.
in house close BY eighty sol
diers sleep on the ground floor. and
in a tiny room adjoining are frag-
5ments Of several families. fifteen peo-
pie in all. Two of 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 encounS
ter daily. but we have managed to
make a great Improvement in con-
ditions though 1t Is quite imnossible
to house them any better There Is
not enough room for the army. and
as many civilians as possible are
sent away continunlly. but still they
come onshe11ed out of their homes.
and buffeted about from one wretched
place to another. s
have arranged with. a bakery
close by TO bake several hundred.
Iloaves of bread a day. and yesterday
IA bomb dropped IN front OF the door,
killing q man and three horses Tt
tore a hole through one corner OF the
roof and broke everv pane of glass
4inEthe bakery. and all the Yeast and
bread for the day IS sunny had to be
thrown away--it was full OF glass
asplinterE. Several other bombs wera
thrown a little further on. killtnE
eight people in all. II seems much
a sense1ess sort Of warfare. for no
one but little children and harmless
civilians are the sufferers.
\ What horror. horror. Eeverywherc
the glorious thing called war brings
sin4ftE train. We sec nothing but sad
sights. and vet the peonle themselves
are not sad. It is surprising what.
people can live through. There IL
a family Of five ltvfng IN a hand cart
close by and have been there i've