| Show NUNS AND S NEAR starvation RELIEF REACHES BELGIAN CONVENT BARELY IN TIME TO SAVE LIVES 0 OF F I 1 INMATES for weeks slaters sisters had sheltered and fed Chil chilgren tren all were starving when nellif came from charitable americans london herbert dark clark it hoover over chairman of 0 tile tho american commission for relief la in belgium on friday received train from the commission representative senta tive in the belgian province of drabant brabant a pathetic account of tile the relief from imminent starvation of trie inmates of the convent of the soe soeira oblates ablates Ob lates near cear louvain comprising sixty five nuns and children for weeks the sisters had sheltered and fed the children and it was no not until the supplies of tile the convent were almost a exhausted that they se sent lit an appeal to the commission for help on receipt of 0 ilia alio request for aid food was dispatched immediately to the iho convent the delegate who accompanied compa nied the food was received by the mother superior in a tattered habit tile tha nuns greeted the american flag with tears in their eyes children tit in rags and with bare legs crowded about asking it if it were true that food was coming coining tile the report says miny many ot of the larger children with pale and aged faces showed plainly the lie terrible experiences brough which they had passed As the delegate was leaving the alie mother superior said thank god one country at least has pence peace and can ro PO nobly allow her sympathy for these at war |
