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Show REFUGEES ARE WELL CARED FOR Fifteen Hundred Women, Children and Old Men Find Comfort in Alexandra Palace. Interpreter Can No Longer Bear to Hear Stories of Horrors of War. Correspondence of the Associated Press ) London, Sept. 18. Every day at 5 D'cloch a bell rings in thei great ex-hibltion ex-hibltion hall of Alexandra palace, whereupon fifteen hundred women, children and old men, with a scattering scatter-ing of youths, set up a clatter of wooden shoe.s. This amusement park (now the largest camp for Beleian refugees In the London district I makes ideal head quarters for the homeless foreign! r&, who are being cared for there Xot manv weeks ago the same people peo-ple were straggling away from their burning villages, some for the Dutch X Z j I'-ontler to be herded together in Rushing, and others for Brussels, whence they were sent to Ostend. At nny rate, ultimately they found themselves them-selves in a Loudon railway station, bewildered by the noise of traffic and the strange language about them There they were rounded up by klnd-l klnd-l people speaking their language and put into motor busses for the various vari-ous camps. Belgian Refugees Stupefied. Attendants at Alexandra palace say the refugees for the first day or two seemed stupefied The break In their narrow, peaceful life by war and travel trav-el overwhelmed them. Then they began be-gan to fall into the new' way of living Form any. no doubt, ease amid plen t was a novel experience after years of frugality and hard labor Nov.- there Is nothing to do but to wander in the great halls, with their statuary, the remains of a Japanese fair, and a bird house, in the park outside, the heights of which command com-mand an extensive view of London. These peasants, trained in extremely extreme-ly frugal living, had hitherto maxi-njied maxi-njied to do with three meals a day Put In the refugee camps the found a fourth mal at 6 o'clock. At first they took their tea as a duty ex pected of them Then they found it helped to break a long interval in p monotonous day Now they clamor for tea As it 1b easier to acquire a habit than to break It, they may, on their return, fix the tea habit on rural Belgium. Still Think of Horrors- The older Belgians have not yet recot ered from the horrors they have parsed through. The sit on the benches sad eyed and dumb, paying no attention to the children romping rbout them One of the volunteer interpreters in-terpreters at the palace says their stories are fo harrowing she no longer can bear to hear them. Some of the women have met fresh grief in the death of their babies from malnutri tion and exposure during the days of their flight. The hospital has now about thirty-five cases on hand, which are given the best of care The children are having the time of their lives. 6ince the playground, with its swings and merry-go-rounds Is open to them. Good Beds for AH. Cots have not yet been provided but the refugees have comfortable niattrvs&es and plenty of cover. There is a daily issue of second-hand ciothing, which ie dealt out rather with a view of finding persons to f'.t the garments than of finding garments gar-ments to fit the person Every day a group of refugees, with tags giving their destination fastened fas-tened to a button hole, are taken from the camps and sent to various parts of ngland where homes have been offered. There are only about 6000 in the camps and Secretary H E Morgan Mor-gan of the war refugees committee, which aet6 for the government In thi3 .natter, says that he has received 60-GOn 60-GOn offers of aid from persons In all parts of the United Kingdom, and 30.000 offers of homes |