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Show CALBER'S INQUIRY. A week or more ago Senator Calder of New York moved the investigation of a statement that some American food was scjit to Belgium and northern France in such bad condition that it . poisoned the people who ate it. Emile Franqui, at one time chairman of the Belgian relief committee and at present a member of King Albert's cabinet, has sent a message to Senator Calder asking him, "How could such lies be received seriously?" He then declares that he bitterly resents and his countrymen "are flllnrl n.itl, cfi.rniu fisf rnyTiniinihlfi mPll should lend their ears to detestable slander slan-der against Americans who gave us four years of their life, strength and talent. I feel that it would belittle their services to deny the gossip, yet it is impossible to let it pass." He concludes con-cludes by protesting against the tissue of falsehoods, and saying that "seven millions of my countrymen and 2,500,000 of northern Franco are alive, which is proof that none were starved and none were poisoned. ' ' |