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Show STILL CARING FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES 111 Report Special Mention Is Made of Work of Rockefeller Foundation. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. L The prime minister of Holland, Cort van der Linden, makes special mention of aid afforded by the Rockefeller foundation in a report on the care of Belgian refugees In the Netherlands which lias Just been presented to parliament. Besides helping to provide clothing and shoes, the premier says the foundation did extremely good work by the formation of sewing and knitting classes, where a large number of women refugees made clothes for the interned in-terned soldiers and for ( their fellow refugees: This work was so much appreciated by the government that when the Rockefeller foundation ceased its activities in June, iyi5, it was officially taken over and ear-i ried on. Despite - the' decrease in the number of refugees, there are still" twenty-five such classes spread over the country, with 500 sewing machines in use. Nearly a million garments have been made. Out of a million Belgians who swarmed over the frontier' In the tragic davs of October, 1914, between 30,000 and 40,000 continue to receive relief from the Netherlands Neth-erlands government, of . whom more than 14,000 are housed in the specially-erected camps or villages. Many of these refugees refu-gees are usefully employed in the construction con-struction of small ; wooden , houses or cabins, which, after being used by Belgian Bel-gian families in Holland during the war, can be taken to pieces on the conclusion of peace and transferred' to . Belgium, where a great shortage of housing accommodation-is anticipated. More than 400 of such cabins have already been built and placed at the service of- Belgian Bel-gian families. .r |