Show I u. u S. S SENDS BELGIUM 6 1 BIlliON POUNDS FOOD PARIS PAnIS May flay Ia 18 In lB-In In all pounds of foodstuffs have o reached the Belgian civil il population lon through the Commission for relief in Belgium ium from fromI November 1 1914 to October 31 1917 It Is announced It is due to the I marvelous generosity of or the United States of America that the Belgians have escaped destruction through I famine says the Ule Beiges a publication e edited at Havre Hayro under the auspices of the Belgian Ian government govern govern- I ment They will never forget It It It itI adds dd I When hen Herbert C C. C Hoover HooYer organized Ithe the tho commission for or relief relic in Bel Belgium lum lumI t I In tho the fall of oC 1914 and purchased in inI London the few thousand sacks of or I flour and wheat that were sent to Belgium in the tho tho care of or Hush Hugh S S. Gibson Gibson Gibson Gib Gib- son the secretary of the American le Ie legation legation I gation gatlon at nt Brussels who had gone gono ono to London for that purpose none foresaw that the institution would grow to such proportions and would become h como the tho greatest work worle of or the kind ever at nt- nt tempted The average distribution of foodstuffs foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs to the Belgian population during during dur dur- ing tho the three years ears referred to above was pounds dall dally daily Importations into Bel Belgium lum would woul have hae reached much greater g figures had hadit it not been for numerous by I German U-boats U of oC ships loaded with foodstuffs for tOl the Belgians |