The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-22
R|ISS|A'S HUNGER R,
 f||3HT ONLY BEGUN
>... 1> Much the Question of Supplies sf nrganization--Workers Faced Wifh Certain Robbery--in-
 trepid American.
By F. A. Wray, 4...<*national News Service Stan Correspopden


 fon6on. Sept. 17.-The great battle .sz.,.zt the famine in Russia is just hss,nn,sr. But, as was the case Tn ,,zs,.,,,,> ;n 1914, the preliminary .... '.....<..-lS involves not so much ques- s;ss M sf supplies as of organization. ''ss' 3so,.naring what happened in the @.<sv 5avs in Belgium to the present .;t,,st;on in Russia may help to visu- 1,;za fhe work lying before the Ameri- ..an R<lief efforts. In both instances +h. 4pl;nf workers were laced with s,.< .'.,.4z;< Robbery, only in the present xsee <be are not faced with rutn- 's7 esw the first American ship con 4.z..{r<> food enter the harbor oI Am s.,,rs;, s*a,.as,,, en December 4, 1914. It's zsIisr,5 sssI1s commander had never left the z><s+ a,ro,,nd Nova Scotia before. blt I~<<{fo Herman submarines and mines, s5ftc entirely ignorant of the dllD- '<..lfsAz of Atlantic transportation, ne fad snfely brought his precious cargo M 1, a neutral port. 1. Snxious crowd of us, the first ,a1;<f <1orkers, awaited him: inruout tk1 eafurday night and during the es<lv hours of Sunday we scanned f5e zen for the ships approach. De- s.,5ts fhe messages from London we be~nn fa doubt. Then at last the ves- sel hove in sight and excitement grew to fever height. We knew that a5 lease q million refugees, who nao neo unuelc0med into Holland, were at the point of Starvation.
 Wze knew that twice as many Bel 1iars i1l their native villages adJoln- ino Ihe Dutch frontier, were Tn like or verse predicament.
 Intrepid American Officer.
 II was 1 that afternoon when the shin cast anchor. By 3 o'clock we had fhree gangs of men working like demons- triple wages-to unload her. By midday on Monday the 1rrenter part of her food was placed on fhc wharf.
 We had chartered special train. Liter Providing for the worst needs of the refugees into Holland our chief air1 was to relieve the Belgians in the Tonrnonond district, who were report ed to be literally on the verge of star eztion. Everything they possessed had been pillaged by the invading armies.
 Captain Jackson, of the American army. was in charge of the train. With small section of helpers he spei on his journey with all the steam t6af a Dutch engine could make. It VIE when he found the Belgian iron f;er. with German soldiers confront inx him, that the real trouble began.
 Have you a permit to bring this food in here ?" asked the commandant of the German troops.
 The permit of humanity" answer ca Captain Jackson.
 IF you have no official permit then shnll seize the contents of the train, '' answered. the commandant.
 C4ptain Jackson jumped on the en- zine and unfolded the Stars and Stripes.
 Now seize them at your peril, 2 WAS his reply.
 The commandant gave way. The trnin's precious burden was unloaded M4uy people were saved from death and the supply of American food into EeIxium was initiated there and then
 There were no workers on the spot sufficient in numbers to safeguard the food at the moment. Those present were only to ensure the proper or G4nixation of it's arrival. It would fa]ke lime for the requisite personnel f3 feach Belgium from America ir thoae Troubled times.
 Hoover to the Rescue.
 Herbert Hoover saved the situation H4 6ppealed to the American Rhodes aF6o1ars at Oxford University ts a11ndon their vacations and devote th&mselves to the cause. They came ax 0rle man.
 But, as they would be the first tt aeknowledge, they were totally mex peFienced and faced with circum stances about which they had nevei dreamed. Some of them--men lik, kdksftson Smith and Tracy kittredgl
 I|9Ye since become among thu 2xeztest of relief administrators. Bu 4a Ehat moment they were faced by al H1knoWn situation 1t took then months of work amounting to slayer. 4 put the organization on its feet 1<eonWhile fresh workers were arriv 1nf from the United States.
 Int while this was going on we il HoEterdam were faced with a ney pzQb|en. Despite barbed wire an s61trjes, Belgians were escapin across the frontier in hordes tha aHes Suggested plague of locusts.
 Dutch Wary of Food Bins.
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