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Show ditions for relief in tbose countries. The omniisaioners later went to Poland and Serbia, and by January ), their recommendations recom-mendations as to relief measures by the foundation had been presented to the trustees for consideration. Another feature of the foundation's work wan an appointmont for those professors pro-fessors of scientific subjects in the I'ni-versity I'ni-versity of Louvain who had been obliged to abandon their laboratories, and who had been provided with opportunities oppor-tunities of pursuing their labor in England. SPENT MUCH MONEY IN WORK OF RELIEF Rockefeller Foundation Report Re-port Tells of Feeding the Starving Belgians. NEW TOUK, Sept. 25. The expendi turn of nearly $1,000,000 for relief work in Belgium, the appropriation of funds for medical work and research and investigation in-vestigation of conditions in Belgium, Holland, Poland and Serbia, was the work done by the war relief commission of the Korkefeller foundation in Kurope up to January 1, 1915. A review of the foundation's activities after the outbreak out-break of the war and np to January 1 was made public today as the second part of its annual report. The commission expended for Belgian relief $1 ,185, 146.46, and later received refunds for expenses of ships and for the cargo of the steamer Wassapeoua from tho commission for relief in Belgium Bel-gium of $1H9, 107.52, making the net amount expended bv the foundation in this phase of its work $986,038.94. This sum purchased more than 2,000,000 pontiffs of rice, more than 27.000,000 pounds of flour, 2.000,000 pounds of beans, peas and lentils, 250,000 pounds of bacon and large amounts of other commodities. In addition to purchasing food the foundation acted tor several rnonthB as the receiver of clothing for Belgium, and maintained a temporary office in New York for that purpose. Within two weeks after the outbreak of war the foundation appropriated money to enable Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Itoekefeller institute, and attached to the French army medical corps, to purchase anti-meningitis serum and anti-dysentery anti-dysentery serum, as well as setting aside funds for the use of the American Bed Cross in sending physicians and nurses to Europe. In addition to its work for the Belgians, Bel-gians, the foundation sent a commission of three to Europe to inquire into relief re-lief measures needed in all the countries coun-tries affected by tho war. This commission com-mission was composed of Wickliffe Rose, director general of the international interna-tional health commission; Ernest P. BioknelL national director of the American Amer-ican Red Cross, and Henry James, Jr., manager of the Rockefeller institute for medical research. The commissioners visited Belgium and Holland and made a survey of con- |