The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-11

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 Dunkirk, France Apri, 10.-Snu vigorously pushing her relief work close to the battle lines in Flanders. Maxine Elliott reports finding the BcIgian refugees "stuffer like sar. dimes in the barns, even in the big stys and sen 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 who found her on that vehicle. ankle deep
 mud and dripping with rain.
 "I stuff the ambulance full daily with food and clothing" she conGu- ned, and make the piufm round of as many cases as can.
 l recently wrote an open letter to
 My Own Countrywomen' in England for aid but only English people -e- spoudcd. lt was a great surprise 10 me, for | thought | might get help from America and little or nothing from England, but as usual the uneX- pected happened From England I got a little over $3,0oo in cash and between $3o.000 and $35,000 worth of stuff for the barge.'
 The barge" is the Julia" which the American actress herself con. dacted through the canals from Ca .ais to the remote corners of West Flanders, 10 reach the starving relu- gees between inc fighting fronts.
 'I can hardly describe to you the pitiful condition of these poor rcfu- gees, she continued "Only today We have clothed twelve families from top to toe. from ten 10 fourteen peo- pie in each family It is impossible for them to find shelter and they are stuffed like sardnes in the barns. even in the pig stys and hen houses. in fact. in any place that has roof
 In a house close by SD soldiers sleep on the eround floor and in a tiny room adjoining are fragments of several families. fifteen people in all Two of the children aIe down with typhoid, one on the floor and one in am old biscuit box, and this is the sort of thing We encouutcd daily. but we have mauaged to make a great improvement in conditions though jt Is 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 shclled out of their homes and bufietcd about from one wretched place Co another.
 I have arranged with d bakery close by to bake several hundred .oaves of bread a day. and yesterday a bomb dropped in front of the door killing a man and three horses. It tore a hole througa one corner of the roof and broke every pane of glass in the bakery. and all the yeast and bread for the days supply had to be thrown away it was full of glass and sI 'inters. Several other bombs were thrown a little further on killing eight people in al. It seems much a sensolcss sort of warfare for no one but little children and harmless civilians are the sufferers.
 What horror horror. everywhere the glorious taing called war brings in lts train We see nothing but sad sights and yet the people themselves are not sad It is surprising what people can live through There is family of five living in hand cart close by and have been there five months, They have roofed the top canvas and there they tuck them selves away and the soldiers feed them. Of course the military authorj- ties say the refugees are gone now because they don't see them with their little bundles crying by the road side but poor things, they have crowded into every available corner and cling to the idea that they may be able to creep back to their homes v hen tae bombarding ceases By that time there won't be much left of their poor little homes fear.
 Tt seemed SO incongruous the other sunday to hear the church bells chim- ing all day and the caunons keeping a dreadful accompaniment In the evening a soldier brought us some German souvenirs taken from one of