The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
r NATIONS WARDS
OF WORLDS CHARITY
Belgians, Serbs and Poles Depend for Food on Volun
tary Subscriptions, Principally From Neutral
Countries, With America in the Lead.

spring the commission was importing
foodsturs at the rate Of $7.50O,000
worth per month.
The commission's work divided into
two branches. one the Importation and
istribution OF food to be bought by
those Belgians who can pay for It the
other the feeding OF those who, through
unemployment n other results OF war,
clnnot pay. The outlay for the desti-
ute II about 50, SOC. 900 a month.
From Belgium the commission sent
Investigators into the territory in north
France occupied by the Germans and
there found 1900. 900 in dire need. who
we're relieved.
Figures issued under date OF April 10
showed hat the commission had deliv-
cred 400. O65 tons OF foodstuffs. valued
at s29.si4.335. and 27l.7l9 tons mere,
valued at s2l,5so.s5o were on tho way
or had been arranged for. The pro-
visioning department OF the commission
h0s a working capital Of $l0.0oO,O 900.
advanced by bank and Belgian insti-
tutions.
The tragedy Of Poland In some ways
has been greater than that OF Belgium.
The great armies OF the Austro-Ger-
mans and Russia ave swayed back
0ttd ! ohtoFS Wv vs. w. ''''' ~
spring II was estimated that 200 towns
and 5000 villages had been submerged
by the tide Of war. 5000 of the vii
lagos being ra xed to the ground. The
material damage at that time was es-
timated at more thar $500, O00, 900. all
stores OF corn and forage had been
seised or destroyed, 1000, 900 horses
and 1000. 900 cattle had been taken for
the armies or had died for want OF
ma 2 nm nm rural iphn bttapfs
had been reduced to beggary and cities
as large az Kalicz. with 10000 inhabi-
tants, suffered terribly. The $500. 0OO. 0OO
annual Industrial production has been
stopped and 400, 900 workmen are out of
employment. The majority Of the g.
600, 900 living In own and cities are
destitute. And TO add to her tragedy,
Poland has furnished 100000 OF
soldiers. about equally divided between
the two hostile lines, fighting in VIVA,
il to them a fratricidal war,
100000 . Month for Poland.
Relief In Poland has beer in the
hands Of the citizens committees In Pc.
land. headed by the Central Citizens
Committee at Warsaw, Of the Rookie.
Teller Foundation and OF Jewish com
mittees, The latter are caring for soms
so, 900 destitute coreligionists In War.
saw alone. chiefly refugees from ths
rural districts. Expenditures for relief
In Poland have been amounting e
about 100000 q month.
Serbia suffered less from invasion
han Belgium or Poland, for she fur
nished a battle-ground for only q shor,
time early In the war. Refugees r
the threatened districts crowded into tn,
cities until. for example. Nish. the TEN
porary capital, a town normally O
$4,000 inhabitants, now houses $4,000
jammed together In any buildings avail
able until the ravages Of starvation ant
disease q become appalling,
Typhus. which has been the creates
scourge OF Serbia In the last few months
was started among the 60, 900 Austrian
taken prisoners by the Serbs and wa
, spread with tho distribution of thesV
prisoners. II was estimated last sprini
that there were 10000 typhus cases II
the country and cholera and smallpo,
we're threatened.
French, American and British volun
teer physicians and nurses. working
under the Red Cross, were formed Int,
a sanitary commission.
When they arrived all Serbia was on
great hospital, In the main hospital a
Belgrade. accommodating 1900 patients
there was . death rate OF thirty-fve I
forty q day. The work OF stopping tn
plague occupied many weeks. durin
which thousands-no one knows no,
many thousands-died. OF the 5000
Austrian prisoners in the country II
estimated that 10000 died OF disease