The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31
THREATENS TO END
AMERICAN RELIEF
Serious View Taken III Berlin of the
Impasse With Britain Over Food
Importations.

| BERLIN, July 81 via London.-Al-
though no decision has been an
nounccd concerning Great Britain S III
tlmatum regarding relief work in Bel
gum and France and the extension of
| the system to Poland, the prospects
for the great work the American com
mlttec has been conducting III Belgium
aud northern France for the past
Is months are not particularly bright
Slight evidence can be found here
of any intention to bow to the British
demand and turn over to the inhabitants
Ill its entirety the rich harvest into
which the German soldier and husband
man is just beginning to put the sick
lie. The question will be threshcd out
and decision made at army head
quarters, where Herbert c. Hoover,
chairman of the American Commission
for Relief in Belgium, will appear as
IN advocate for the continuance of
the commission S work.
| Inquiries made by the Associated
Press here, however, have revealed lit
! tie cheer for the prolongation of the
relief work Dr. Alfred f. NJ. thinner
mann, under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, with whom the Associated
L 100 tlASthSHtd tIit question lOudN.
declared that regarding the German
occupied district in Poland, Germany
stood by her former offer, namely, to
reserve the harvest for the civilian in
habitants and soldiers and policing
forces of the army of occupation, as
distinct from the army of occupation,
but refused to 90 beyond that. When
asked whether this offer applied also
I'll
Zimmerman replied that this was a
question which must be decided from
headquarters.
: tloWc yer, Dir. zimmerman, continued,
should the British carry out the threat
and prevent the Importation of food
supplies for the civilian population, tia,
IeiViians would be placed on common
footing with the inhabitants Of Ger
many. and it would end the cons ant
source of complaint on the part Of the
Germans that tie inhabitants of oc-
cupicd territories were farinn better
than the Germans themselves. Enemy
civilians. he added. now had many
things which the Germans were quite
unable to obtain, or to obtain only with
difficulty.
/ The possible crippling of the relief
when Mr. Hoover and his colleagues
were planning to launch campaign in
the United States for funds with which
to continue their work. with the slogan.
- Help the German Babies and at a
time when the United States had be
come, in the eyes of their beneticiarics
in France and Belgium a great world
henefactor and the only barrier be
tween them and starvation.
The Associated Press correspondent.
who has Just returned from several
hundred mile automobile trip through
Northern France, found the most com
imon sign in towns and villages. next
to those indicating homb-proof sh"l-
tiers against aeroplane attacks. to bc the
announcement of the agent of the
American Relief commissions Every
where the correspondent heard testi-
monials of gratitude for the work of
the commission.
Are There Others?
lie had been round from church to
church trying to find congcnial CON
| @regation, and finally he stopped ut a
little church inst rs the congregation
read with the minister:
We have left uudonc those things
which we ought to have lone. and ",
have done those things which we ought
not to have done
The man slipped into a pew with a
sigh Of relief.
'Thank goodaess. he murmured,
q We found my crowd at last
Excursion TO Ocean Beach, New Lon
; Ann q 4 4