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Show NEWS OF THE BLOW IS RECEIVED WITH PROFOUND REGRET WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. Fxpulsion by the German military authorities of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium Bel-gium and Northern France, after its two and a half years of devoted service during which the greatest and most sustained relief work in history was built up. was officially reported to the state department depart-ment today in a telegram from Ambassador Ambassa-dor Paee in Iondon. The news was received re-ceived here with profound regret, the development de-velopment being regarded as one of the most deplorable of the many deplorable results which have followed Germany's announcement of un restricted submarine warfare on Jamtnry "1. A!:n.-r:c.i.n aid for j-'.t-l-'ium will not. h"w-eL-r. hf aii' - wed to n -. The A . " i--:n co ni in :t too o;i t -Me IVb-M". m v. .11 CV. t i n io its woik as lar as i" in cr l--'t 1 n -: f,::,.-:s. purws' ng a,: i :v-. ; h j. 'i "s. arid. iirr-rt:nLr wuik from . t ue o'.ts Ib:i"W.;'t C. linovrr. c!;a:::.;;in a: ul directing direct-ing C'-nins or" tt- aiT. .--in, h:'s an-nouruvd an-nouruvd t i'at relief op-r;i t:.v.s will con-tinue con-tinue in all ways not blocked by the Germans. Ger-mans. 1: t lie internal a : : v. in it:i ion of the relief in TMuiu in itself t'..e fa miliar Amf ricn ;i leaders disarm ear. The' e the work will pre; ably be taken up by a joint bnard of Dutch and Spaniards, win already al-ready have come to play a big I'art in the relief. Refuse to Talk. Officials here refuse comment. They say that the facts speak Pr tiioniF.-lvcs. Germany has made the position of American Amer-ican relief workers untenable a:id the workers have been withdrawn. Ti'-re no recourse or palliative. The military authoritae.- have spoken and their vo -e must be heeded. The Americans who have been the backbone of the " BelL'ia'i re'ief will retire. The work will pa;-? into other hands, probably Sanh or Dutch. This action lias been feared ever s:n-e the break -with Germanv became inevitable. inevita-ble. Indeed, the iIoom of its t'o:e'-ist has been one of the stronei st dr-torrent 3 which has stayed the government's hands in previous crimes. Even in tre shadow of the bre:ik, however, how-ever, officials clung tenaciously to the bare hope that Germany would not exact this step. The government went on with other details of the break as though the question of Belgium did not enter into consideration at all. American relief workers were told to continue their work of charity as though nothing had happened. hap-pened. Forced Out at Last. The quiet word went out that the United States would never withdraw from Belgium till it was forced to do so. Now that force has come. It was only a matter of a minute, the dispatch of a single note from the , German mihtnry governor two days ago. The American I relief commission has hung for months by a thread; its severance required but the stroke of a pen. I No false pride Is felt in official circles , here over American generosity to Bel- I gium. The S.OOn.OOO which this country t has contributed in money does not repre- j sent even a third of the profit this coun- . try has made on the .$150, Ck.'O, On a of sup- j plies bought here nor a fraction of the J2.T.O,00O.0ii0 spent during the life of the commission. The gratification, however, lies in the fact that the soul and spirit of tiie commission was American, its conception con-ception and guiding direction American, and its whole life American in efficiency and in organizing ability. Time and time again the life of the commission has been threatened by the necessities of the military situation. The Germans have feared it because of the presence of possibly critical neutrals; the allies because of the possible use of Belgium Bel-gium as a storehouse by tiie Germans into which supplies might be imported only to reach German hands. Always the question ques-tion of imports has hung in the balance and only by superdiplomacy have the mutual mu-tual suspicions and fears of the Germans Ger-mans and the British been overcome. |