Show 1 IUM PERISHES p RELIEF WORK NORK NORKa t a IS STOPPED In 1 Irish sh Activity in War It Reparations Threatens 1 l 1 I Work of Mercy ht he ski Kenneth VS Vr Payne in London of The Salt Lake Telegram Jar ar DON IDON- England Oct 12 How How t D Belgium i In Americas America's feverish A ct vity as partner in the war is isto o 0 ng to forget the little nation fate fale first awakened the world savagery savage I fall iV Henri Davignon famous in j i jn n n leader writer and recognized I Ifor Iman aman h man for the en ens enslaved aved Belgian I 3 has just given me an interview n e e Telegram revealing the lately I r sed misery and predicting the c cal l wiping off the map of a whole 1 unless the world continues Bele Bel- Bel BelI I e work Americas America's new role f has not relieved her of I I d obligations x Davignon's father was Bel- Bel inister of foreign affairs at the theof 9 k of the war Into his hb hands t I Jevery every thread of evidence about hest conditions He lie has made Ice lice here in London the clearing for all the testimony of refugees ee and a half million p people le I starve start o in three W weeks eks i if it f relief In Belgium stopped said Da- Da n n. n iU of a population of are destitute They are rough local soup kitchens Some lly live on soup alone And these are made of foodstuffs brought the relief commission 3 e physical deterioration of the thein in an people is pitiful The death tn ri Liege for example c has lately 6 per cent above the average t a the birth rate has diminished 4 tnt nt mt Such conditions long con contin- contin tin tin- rould be fatal has increased 30 per imong the poor in fn Brussels And I hildren hUdren Imagine how the out- out world would be stirred if it could ss s the the monthly transportation to tod d Of BOO starving children And i-d i are only the the- most sickly T r tare are so weak they have to be beAfter bead ad After a month for they are sent back to starve while while a new lot of ot picked inexhaustible supply is sent illand lland for a brief respite e deportations still continue I. I circulated hints that the they Abe b be- be stopped stopp d. d My most recent in- in tion lion nevertheless is that about 0 o Belgian men have now been nobody knows where where and and only 1 hundred undred have been sent back deportees who have been returned bly bly owe their escape simply to the theat theat hat at they are toe starved and fees fees' fee fee- s' s be of ot any use e Belgians look forward rd hopefully because we believe Amer- Amer ter the war will help restore our d factories Mess iless the work of ot feeding the an people eople is continued by Amer- Amer ti d the other nations there will be man material left to furnish labor laborI I these ese factories and make the na- na again self supporting |