New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-28
AMERICAN RELIEF
PRAISED BY GREY
Sir Edward COmmends
Neutral Service in Letter
to Commission.
FORCE OF 80 BUSY
WORKING IN BELGIUM
War Swept Country Needs
$4,000 Tons of Grain a
MOnth-Funds Grow.

To supply $4,000 tons Of grain every
month for Belgium's population Of T.
OOO,OOO-this is one Of the tasks which
oonfronts the Commission for Relief in
Belgium.
force Of thirty Americans now in
Belgium has been organized to super
wise the movement OF relief in the war
swept country Through this working
agency the American Office in Brussels
will be able to keep it's hand upon sup
plies from the Belgian border until
distributed
The Rockefeller Foundation makes
public report from the War Relief
Commission. Of which DR.. Wickliffe
Rose is chairman, sent to Europe to in
vestigate conditions among the nom
combatant populations Of the warning
countries. The report describes the &C
tivities of the Belgian Relief Commits
sion.
Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign
Secretary, in letter to II. c. Hoover
chairman Of the committee, on Feb
ruary %, had this to say of the COM
mission:
"The people of this country will, |
am sure. recognize in your work a
prominent example of the qualities Of
efficiency and public spirit which dis
tinguish the many neutral services
being rendered by Americans in Eu-
rope at the present time"
The Commission for Relief in Bel
GUM has been growth in direct re-
spouse to the needs of the situation
as they arose. Ambassador Page
placed Herbert c. Hoover at the head
OF a London relief committee when the
war began. At that time thousands of
Americans were stranded in London.
! The same relief agency was called into
/ service when Belgian refugees arrived
T in London.
Soon there came an appeal from
Belgium. The German army had ad-
vanced over large part of the coun-
/ try, the people were returning to their
| desolated towns and villages, homes
and shops had been burned, horses had
| been taken for the army, cattle requi-
sitioned, transportation was paralyzed,
/ banks closed and the wheels of indus
try stopped.
! In response to this appeal the Amer
J lean Committee of Relief in London
was transformed into the Commission
/ for Relief in Belgium. To guarantee
/ the neutrality of its operations the
work Of the commission was placed
under the control OF the American Am
! bassador in London.
The executive committee, with Offices
at London Wall Buildings, London
/ consists of Herbert c. Hoover, chair
man; Colonel Willard Hunsiker, who
assists Mr.. Hoover in directing the
general financial policy; Edgar Rick
ard, who has charge of contributions
! outside the United States; Edgar Sen
gier, Belgian, who acts as treasurer;
| Willard Shaler, in charge of the Office
and correspondence; John Beaver
White, who has charge of the trans
/ portation department, and Chevalier
/ Edmund Carton De Wharf, a Belgian
who conducts the commissions nego-
| tiations with the Belgian government
and Belgian officials.
Miss Lora Allen, member OF the
! French Society for Aid to the Military
Wounded, said Yesterday that while
the Lafayette kits and other relief sup
plies sent from the United States were
saving many lives the need of France
could not be gagged from this side OF
/ the ocean.
1.-THE women of France are sewing
and knitting from early morning till
/ late at night" said Miss ALLEN, but
| they cannot supply the demand.
, France is in a terrible state of need
need of everything. The hospitals
are filled to overlooking and every pos
/ sible place is sheltering wounded men
"At Aubervilliers. a railroad juno
/ ton outside of Paris, where | worked
/ the wounded poured in at about 1000
every twenty-four hours. Their con-
dition was terrible. The remnants OF
/ their clothing had to be cut from their
! bodies"
Eugene Brieux's conference on
France of To-day" will be given at
| the Ritz-Carlton Hotel tomorrow
afternoon. 1t is he only opportunity
/ to hear the conference, as NJ. Brieux
will return to France this week. The
proceeds will go to the Secours Ma
| tional and the War Orphans Com
| mittee.
Missouri's gift of / 900 tons of food
| for Belgium has obtained the freedom
| of the railroads from st. Louis to New
| Orleans, and will be shipped on the
| Glenshiel, one of the vessels Of the
/ Commissi IN for Relief in Belgium, this
week. The railroads let down their
bars for this shipment, although they
rad previously announced that after
January no more free freight on Bel
gian relief shipments would be
/ granted.
Princeton students have given
sl,lOO to the American Ambulance
/ Hospital in Paris. With it motor
/ ambulance will be bought and put in
/ commission under the name OF
princeton" 1t is hoped that its
/ driver and complement of men will be
chosen from Princeton volunteers
/ Within the last few weeks fifty-seven
/ volunteers ambulance drivers have
4 been sent TO Paris in answer TO the
call from the committee there. The
majority of them are college men
{ twenty-four being from Harvard. Con
,tributions to the hospital fund aggre'
gate s346.45l 50.
THE Red Cross sent on the Rotter'
| dam Yesterday one surgeon ana ioul
nurses for service in Germany. They
were DR.. Gilbert l.. Bailey, OF Oar
Park, H.; Miss Edith L. Wood, OF
4 philadelphia; Miss Florence h. Ulmer
Miss Louise Hoelderlin and Miss Caro-
line r Bauer. of New York. Jacot
n Schiff received sl.469 10 for the Red
/ Cross Yesterday. making the total con
| trjbutions s464 1927 e5. .,oo 20
Subscriptions amounting 70 go :
were received yesterday by the beigl 5n
Relief Fund. Its total IS ss4e'4sI oV
some OF the subscriptions yesteradSa1
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