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Show BOCHES NEVER GOT EOOD SENT TO BELGIANS Hoover Authorizes Statement State-ment Relief Rations Were Respected. The local food administration today received official Information from Washington that the numerous reports to the effect that Germans have had the benefit In many cases of Belgian relief rations sent to that country by the United States were not true. "Washington food administrator explain ex-plain that the Belgian commission offered of-fered to feed the Belgian refugees and civilian population on one condition, namely that not one particle of food sent from America should aver reach German hands. In ths case this was dona the commission warned Germany , that she would have the entire population popula-tion of Belgium on her bands to feed ' with food which aha might otherwise '. use for her own soldiers. Food off I-I rials declare that not in any inetanoa-t have German soldiers been known to j eat the Belgian rations In spite of ths i fact that they were often better than ' their own. The possibility of America having 1 whiter bread by New Tear's has been : foreshadowed In a telegram just re- , celved at the local food administration ! from Washington. Although ths mes- . age Implies that some of the white flour restrictions will be lifted It In no way means that there la no longer any need of food conservation. Al-j though the exact percentage of sub- slilutea to he used under the new re-1 ulation was not hinted at In the men-sage. men-sage. It stated that K was to be considerably con-siderably less than Is now called for under the eighty-twenty rule. The Austrian armistice has Increased In-creased the accessibility to the Indian and Australian wheat fields by clear- . lug the Mediterranean of danger and ' i this is the big reason given for the lift I Ing of aome of the wheat restrictions. . |