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Show COMMISSION TO CONTINUE WORK IN OTHER LANDS BOSTON, Feb. 12. The American commission com-mission for relief in Belgium will continue con-tinue its activities toward obtaining funds and supplies and will support and cooperate co-operate with another neutral relief organization or-ganization as soon as one Is formed to administer the work, Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the commission, stated here tonight. After addressing a meeting in the interest in-terest of the fund. Mr. Hoover .learned of the announcement from London that the American' relief workers would be withdrawn , from Belgium and northern France. He said he thought they would go to Holland and set up temporary headquarters head-quarters there. The American evacuation does not mean immediate lack of food for those 1 who have been cared for. although the commission has automatically stopped the movement of further supplies from Amsterdam to other points, Mr. Hoover stated. "There is $25,000,000 worth of food now-stored now-stored in warehouses in the various districts dis-tricts in which we have been active," said Mr. Hoover. "It is equivalent to a six weeks' supply. This food is in charge of Belgian officials and they will be authorized au-thorized to administer its distribution until un-til another organization steps in to take over the work. "If the Germans do not interfere w-ith the Belgian administration and allow it to go uninterrupted, meanwhile allowing time and opportunity for another mietral group to control the relief, there is no reason why the relief work should not go on indefinitely. "A food supply for these 10,000.000 people peo-ple is -necessary and it nrtist be in the hands of some other neutral body, under a reorganization of the machinery now-displaced. now-displaced. Support from this country is just as necessary behind any other neutral neu-tral body as it has been behind us. The British and French have supported us Americans as neutrals loyally and with large sums. The American commission for relief in Belgium will continue to support sup-port and co-operate with any other neutral neu-tral relief organization." ; Mr. Hoover stated that negotiations looking to the formation of another organization or-ganization of citizens of one of several ; neutral countries were now going on. In . the meantime, unless the preliminary . steps taken were protracted, he thought the Belgians would not suffer any hardships. |