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S for Relief Relief Relief Re Re- lief From Poverty WASHINGTON April 2 An H-An An American American Amer Amer- ican who has pass passed d ten days das In tho towns toWns' and villages of or and nd northern France I tells a correspondent who writes from the Dutch frontier that there bro art more persons hungry In Belgium Bel Bel- n Belgium l- l gium glum than the charitable world of ot America Is the one hope of or the tho Bel BeJ- gians glans- he says ays Thousands Tho will starve stAnc despite the great work that the various commissions commis shone for tor relief are doing unless the American merican people dig deeper Into their well filled pockets and send more f food tood ships across I believe there are arc nearly 0 persons In Belgium who are r r Absolutely de dependent eq ent upon the boom bounty of ot the outride out out- out out- ride Ide world The Tho people In the larger luger cities re Are receiving recel enough 0 food Kl to keep body and soul together It Is le In the tho torether the places that smaller and out 0 of way the lI and want are more acuto There e arc are hamlets where hun hunger er rel h n. n Everything that th on one le learns here hero tho the correspondent continues at nt th the t gi gateway of or the land of or ml misery hears bears out the account of ot my American Informant who Is he a n United Linked States Stales representative Here is a Dutchman Just returned rom from t an lin n of or m mercy puts It tt Hun It Hun Hundreds diode of ot thousands arc are not able o to earn anything They are depend dependent nt on 0 charI char char- I It ity Sometimes the they get Iet food tood and 1111 then have to go without for or a n spell or else elso It Is s not t tar 1 starvation 11 live Q on on half hatt rations st I n tion but V very ry often orten semi a af f What li t that m means nfl Is IB that t gradually U their strength Is sapped then their vitally dwindles and he hey fall and nd easy pre prey proy to tor r the first disease that comes their way w ReU Relief f Work Help Of or course splendid relief work ork I Is begh be being ing tnt don done But It Is nothing like enough gh h hIn In R. R country countz whore where people are still n a living a country man many of or of whoso whoRe Industries have ve been destroyed ed and whose pasture 1 lands ads have have e been swept h by the pestilence of ot war wl a II country In great reaL me measure eure of or wreckage o and ruin Belgium In is a small country but In these days lit when hen Its whole Internal organization lies has been sh shattered by the th blow of ot tho the mailed flat fist there thero are r parts of ot It U that are almost cut off orr from the rest of or the tho civilized world Occasionally I after arter a n weary Journey some ome one comes over the tho frontier with stories of or life lIro In Inthe Inthe inthe the tore forest lit of ot for tor lna Instance teuo e or r near neaT the banks of ot the lower Her Is Is one such euch glimpse which ha has be ben been n given Ien to mo me In this way WilY It ft Is la a little village ge of or i which one h has not heard before tore called called nari nn s. s not far tar from nt Dinant My 1 y l Informant went enl there a t few days ago and found to his horror that of or nothing remains but a 1 heap o of bl blackened ruins He He- Cov discovered r d tho the five hundred or six Ix t hundred d Inhabitants living lI In the chateau and adjoining outhouses This residence has been spar spared d and Its owner a t titled d gentleman has gathered ath red 1 together the little flocks flock of or homeless I people There they are crowded crowde 1 together er most of ot them of oC cours tours with no bed to sleep leep on Very yer similar in is life lIte In lt Itself Here ca camo cIme me the tho Huns In the tho ter ferocious dR days of August AUKust with torch and fire a and of ot IMO 1300 hou houses burned all but hut this of oC desolation BOO 2 W Amid scene people eo le are art now living herded In incel c el- el tars lars or finding precarious shelter under boards spanning roofless walls All Share Alike The They would be even en worse off ort than the they arc are but hut for or one ono factor Sharing their lot and ond ordering as far as Possible pos pas possible sible their lives U are arc members of aristocratic aristocratic aristo aristo- cratic families for whom this most beautiful part of or tho the country has always been a favorite residential district Thc They arc nrc real noblemen and nd noblewomen Most of oC them were wealthy or had had wealthy friends elsewhere and nd could enell easily have o gone when tho the invaders Invaders came But Dut they choso chose to eta stay with the stricken people i who ho naturally looked to them for help and guidance And Ind there tho they remain purely purely purel from Ails a sense told of ot dut duty and responsibility S I am Rm told of one such title titled real family whose chateau was destroyed Opportunity to Join their friends elsewhere or go hO to England Eng Eng- la land ud was open to them But Dut ut the they felt that their place was amid their poor fellow sufferers Thc They arc are living now nowa like tho others solacIng In a c cellar c Just Ing nd Ing and helping them thorn and b by t their mere presence keeping alto 11 In t their hearts the spark of oC hope Of tho the cities Jn In n B Belgium few have felt relt the effects of the war In worse de degree dogre do- do gree gre than what wh was wa ion formerly the tho great real aft industrial l center of Gh Ghent nt I ack of raw materials and t th the e continual continual requisitions l- l fleaRs b hv by stile th Orman ha have brought bronE g most of the mills slues and factories to a standstill so 80 that scores o of thousands of men arc unemployed 11 and they and their families am Illes are arc dependent on on charity charlt Tho rho population Is on rations Bread Is restricted re- re re restricted to half halt jv it pound a day for tor each p person rf on Other supplies aro are also allo regulated regulated regu regu- and nm may only bo ho purchased once In fI five fIe e dasAs days das As in hl other places Ghent Is IR being drained of Its money b by the tho fines Im Imposed Imposed imposed Im- Im posed b by the Germans Antwerp owing to Its greater rater accessibility to the tho outside outside outside out out- side world is better botter off orr than any other city In Belgium lum But Hut oven o In that port there are arc at leas Icae persons dependent depend depend- ent on public charity Yet Yet here Is ls an example of DC the thc way wayn in n which tho the people people peo peo- pie of or Antwerp maintain their spirit pl it of or I Independence J Jcl da day one of ot tho the bands bands of ot tho Gorman Grman 1 garrison ri-lson ri gives JI an I open air nil performance Tho The Belgium audience stands around and listens to tho the music But at the the first notes of ot Deutschland uber everybody c turns as al one man and walks away It Jl ItIs Itis Is the tho most effective c a way In which they co could ld express their loyalty t to King ling Albert |