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Show 'Belgium "Helpless Any&vay Till Spring, Jays Commission Need of Relief Still Very Urgent, According to Latest Reports From Stricken Land How 4 Americans Can Send Their Mite I By "WILL IT'WIJV &L- 4mfBP&iBJFPMS' JKmmS wwE!Qetiwb 4. NJP ' Ta; fr'fW BELGIAN REFUGEES IN THE RUIN3 OF TERMONDE. A CCORDINO to the Comiiiltisluii For Relief in liclKlum, the American peo- m pie will probably have to feed the Helglnn people nil this winter. "Wo A" intvp taken piilnn to Investigate," said one of the oomiiilsslcmors last week, "and the best Informed Europeans tell iw that there will be no change In the military situation this winter. It muutiM that we must keep up the work until spring breaks or longer." It Iwh been a race with hunger, this business of feeding tt.fiOO.lXX) people with supplies gathered n half a world away. Alllle7clum depends on Amerl can food. Half of Belgium Is never more than a week ahead of starvation. Often it has come closer than Hint. Once tho province of l.luilxmrg, remote and billy, was starving. In some communities the people had not eaten for two days, when one of our United States consuls managed to Iwrrow from the Germans enough bread to keep the people alive until nn American shipment arrived to repay the loan. Once Captain Luccy, the shipping agent In Hnllnud, had to borrow 10.000 ton- of wheat from the -Dutch government. I.lege and Hammc and historic Ghent wero crying for bread, nnd t was mill several days before tho next American ship was duo at, Rotterdam. This was a noble thing for Holland to do mImcc the Dutch themselves are xhort ou food. Yes; It Is a race with hunger, and America, now that sjie has faced I he Htarter. must wlnl -This, hj Amei'len'K gront nnd glorious part In'he wyjld war of UH4-ir. ,, .That- every A met lean may hnvo o. per.oualxhance" to help some Belgian the.cJinuils-tlon For Relief In. Belgium has nrranged Its "pared post plan." Any one who wnntH to send a package containing' between twenty and fifty pounds of nonpcrHiable food need only put n tag on the package, address the tag to the nearest collection depot of the commission, stamp It In the regular way nnd drop It In the mull chute. If the giver puts on the package tag his nnine mill mldress. TOGETHER WITH TUB LETTER "II," the money he has -(pent for stampn will lie refunded. i acKiiges mailed from UTAH should be addressed to REDMAN FIRE-OOF FIRE-OOF STORAGE COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, who are collecting ngcnUi fills district |