Evening star., 1915-02-08
PLAN FOR FEEDING
PEOPLE OF POLAND
Americans and Germans Are
to Cooperate in Measures
of Relief. Il
GERMANS GIVING MONEY;
HAVE NO FOOD TO SPARE
Cost of Distribution to Be Borne by
the Rockefeller Founda-
ton.

BERLIN, February s, by wireless
Official announcement is made here
that international central committees
have undertaken to furnish relief for
the civil population of those parts of
Russian Poland occupied by the Ger
mans. -'.---...
The relief plans contemplate extensive
collection of funds for the purchase of
grain. The cost of administration. the
announcement states, viii be borne by
the Rockefeller Foundation.
The American and Spanish amhassa-
dors at Berlin and Vienna are members
of the committee.
Equal to Belgium's Needs.
THE HAGUE, February s.--America
and Germany are joining hands in
movements for the relief of the civil
population in the war -devatated dis
tricts of Poland. Representatives of
the American Red Cross and the Rookie
feller Foundation, after investigation,
found this work as essential as relief
for Belgium.
While American representatives We're
negotiating what amounts to 4 formal
treaty with the German and Aust rian
authorities providing guarantees not
only that imported food supplies shall
not be requisitioned by the military
authorities, but that all acquisitions
shall cease in occupied regions, Ger
man committee had begun raising funds
to buy food for a people who officially
are their enemies.
Prominent residents of Berlin sub
scribed 100000 marks (SS3.000) rs their
first contribution to the fund to which
Germans generally were invited to sub
scribe in an appeal issued Saturday.
The German committee was organ
lied Saturday afternoon at u meeting
of the reichstag, with Prince Hatfield
Trachenberg chairman and DIR. The
odor LewaId. director of the ministry
of interior. as vice chairman. After
outlining the straits Of the popula ton
and declaring that famine in food
and coal continued, DR.. Lewald said:
Can Spare No Food.
, An International committee has un-
dertaken to obtain the necessary food
supplies from neutral countries, and
it is now for Germany, which can
spare no food, to collect the funds
needed to carry on the work of mercy.
We appeal to our countrymen for as
sistance, therefore, urging each to do
all he can. The willingness of the
German people to make sacrifices will
not halt at the frontier when it is a
men from misery and death"
The foreign committee which is being
organized to supervise relief work in
cludes the American and Spanish am
bassadors at Berlin and Vienna and the
archbishops of Posen and Cracow, DR..
Wickliffe Rose and Ernest Bicknell,
representing the Rockefeller Founda-
ton. After Investigating the situation
the committee believes it will be able
to buy grain and food supplies in Rou-
mania without resorting to the eXpen-
sive method of transporting them
across the sea.
Chairman Herbert Hoover of the
American commission for the relief OF
Belgium is conducting negotiations
with the German authorities to obtain
assurances not only that acquisitions
of food shall cease both in the region
of occupation and the region of opera
tions in Belgium. but that financial
levies on towns and provinces shall be
abandoned. The German Sovernmen,
pledges hitherto have extended to the
non -requisition of food supplies i'm
ported by the commission or such sup.
plies as must be replaced by imports
from America.