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Show BELGIAN RELIEF IS PROBLEM PENDING Ch?irruan Hoover of American Committee Com-mittee Arrives in Berlin for Important Im-portant Conference. BERLIN, Fob. 2, via London, 12:55 p. in. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman pf tho American Belgian relief oominitttie, has arrived in Berlin for an important conference vith the German government, govern-ment, important are these negotiations negotia-tions that it may be said that upon them depends whether American relief measures in Belgium ca n be continued or not. With Mr. Hoover are Dr. Wyekliffe Rose and Ernest BickncU. who have been investigating conditions in Belgium Bel-gium and Russian Poland on behalf of the .Rockefeller foundation and the I American Red Cross. Those two Americans Amer-icans are in Berlin to consider tho establishment es-tablishment of a relief organization for i Poland. A condition to tho undertaking undertak-ing is the pledge of the German and ! Austrian governments not to requisition 'from the inhabitants any foodstufJis whatever for use of the German and Austrian armies in Poland. There is good reason to. believe tbese pledges will be given; but if they are not the relief measures for Poland, as at present pres-ent planned, will have to bo abandoned. |