Show CHILD FEEDING STIRS DUTCH Controversy Over German youth Interned in Holland Assumes Asperity Hue I The Tho Hague Netherlands Sept 23 The Qu question wh whether ther German children should bo ho o entertained Jn n n Holland and fattened there thero on Dutch milk and butter butter but but- ter has led to a 11 storm In a. a teacup hero here Columns of ot the new newspapers have been devoted to articles on the tho subject by learned professors professor and editorial writers Germany German Is a besieged fortress s. s ItIs it itIs itis Is declared on the tho one Cne hand and lt It itis ls Is and what Is moro opposed to all Hollands Holland's Interests to help defeat defeat de de- de- de feat the object of or the tho besiegers by re relieving ro- ro lieving ing distress there thele How can that be Is IH the tho question posed In reply when Germany has freo free access to Hoiland Hoi Hol land Scandinavia and Switzerland Holland Is sovereign of ot her own frontier frontier fron fron- tier and the tho feeding of ot hungry German German German Ger Ger- man children Is our Cur good right and not the faintest violation of ot neutral neutral- ity If It you jOU have ha mone money to spare for tor poor children Is the retort give Ivo tho the benefit of oC it to many thousands of ot starved half ch children dren In your own cities who are suffering from too tOl large exports to Germany German or lavish your jour pity upon tho the millions of ot suffering children In Poland Serbia Belgium and northern France the countries desolated b by Germany German Moreover you ou are endangering our own toed food supplies b by giving giving- the allies ground for thinking that the goods Im Imported Imported imported Im- Im ported here hore will Indirectly help their m ene-m enemy to hold out Even assuming that Germany Is a besieged fortress runs another argument argument ment docs does not a belligerent sometimes allow the o of a n. city to bo prolonged pro pro- longed bv by sparing the women and chil dren dron a as much as possible And J If you OU OUI I say ay we wo are aro helping Germany German to hold holdout holdout holdout out so EO o docs does such noble work as us that of ot tho the Red ned Cross which Is universally ully recognized to bo be within the province of or neutrals strengthen tho forces r nr ni f fh i belligerents I It Is but an nn act of ot chivalry an and compas compassion It would be I a shame to ex exclude ex- ex dude clude It b bj by carrying logical strictness to extremes S says S 'S another all Yer very well sell Is s the answer but to nourish German subjects sUbject Is 13 to prolong the war and so BO sacrifice moro move of ot the alli allies allies' s men and If JC tho the Dutch Dutch government government govern govern- ment Is 15 to permit Germans to have re recourse recourse re- re course courso to public charity hero here at least let Jet It point out to o Germany its ita obligations obliga obliga- towards this country and to the civil population of tho the regions occupied I pied pled by German armies I I So runs rung tho strange gc controversy and meanwhile all unconscious of tho the mild storm tho they thoy havo hato raised little parties s of German children man many of them palo faced but somo looking In fairly II good condition are dall dally daily crossing crossing- the Dutch border The They con come In iii parties I I varying from a do dozen en to several cral hUnI hundreds hun- hun and are being accommodated I about tho the country mostly In childrens children's holiday camps cams and such institutions but also aRO b by twos and throes In private families Th The Tho work has haR been organized org by bj various va Va- rious committees s set t up by Hollanders with family ties tics In lii Germany and other others others oth oth- er ers and naturally the German authorities ties tics have hae willingly ly extended their co cooperation cooperation co- co operation There are arc now between 1000 an and 2000 such children In the tho country countr and the they are arc still arriving A movement t Is also now on n foot to bring children from tho the occupied districts districts districts dis dis- of or France rance so that Holland promIses promises prom prom- to develop into quite a childrens children's refuge following tho the claims upon Its hospitality made h by the flocks of ot Belgian Belgian Bel Del gian fugitives part of or Antwerp's e es escaping os- os caping garrison and man many hundreds of Cr fleeing prisoners of war |