Show BELGIANS BELANS REFUSE TO RETURN HOME REFUGEES PREFER TO REMAIN IN HOLLAND T TO BEING RULED BY GERMANS Municipal Officers and School Teachers Teach Teach- ers f Work Vork Feeding Fugitives Schools and Church Buildings Being Used to House Them Flushing Holland Holland HollandA A A total of penniless Belgians ms quartered in Flu Flushing refuse absolutely to return to their homes In Antwerp o or other Belgian cities in the hands of the Germans It Is true refugees did didEO dido EO o back to Antwerp Thursday but I Ithe the movement to get large numbers to return to the cities clUes In the possession posses posses- ion aba of the enemy has been futile I All the school and church buildings Df f Flushing are occupied by impoverished po Belgians The Tho schools have bave been dismissed to accommodate them rhe The normal population of this city Is but it Is today augmented by probably Belgians only 2000 of nf whom have funds and are able to pay their way The municipality Is bearing earing the expense of feeding and sheltering the destitute Many are leaving dally daily for England but the Belgian and British government have not granted the request t of Flushing for transports transports transports trans trans- ports to facilitate this movement and andas as a result the burden of Flushing has not been lifted All the municipal and school teachers are at york ork feeding the fugitives Soup and meat is given for dinner and the theother theother theother other meals consist of meat bread cheese and coffee The refugees wash their clothes and iron them and ind cook their meals meals' in the school houses At night they sleep on straw under the seats Physicians are keeping careful watch to see that no serious illness occurs occur I I 1 I I I It t FRAU BERTHA HALBACH Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und nd Halbach Is the daughter of Herr k krupp rupp the famous and Is with her husband proprietor of the great establishment that provides the kaisers kaiser's army with cannon and am om |