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Show uu FOOD FOR THE BELGIANJELIEF London. Oct 27, 7.50 p m. The expedition and thoroughness with which the American commission for Belgian relief Is arranging to dlstrih-ute dlstrih-ute food among the Borely stricken people of Belgium ir shown In the following telegram which Herbert C. Hoover chairman of the commission, received today from Captain T. F Lucoy, who is in Rotterdam arranging arrang-ing for the shipment of supplies Into Belgium : "I have made arrangements to Bhip by river steamer the first consignment consign-ment of supplies We can unloud the steamer from England three hours after arrival here. All details have been arranged with the Dutch gov ernrnent for allowing food supplies to cross the Dutch frontier and all facilities fa-cilities will be given us for their ini portatlon. "The American and German consuls con-suls here are actively co-opeiatlu I with me. I have received 150 cards ! stamped by the German government ! in Berlin instructing all their authorities authori-ties to allow food to be forwarded without any interference to th American Amer-ican minister at Brussels for the destitute des-titute Belgians " Telegram from Shaler. Millard K. Shaler, who also Is In Rotterdam, sent the Following tele cram summarizing his Investigation into the situation and showing the urgency for relief: 1 have visited The Hague to. I i, and saw Henry Van Dyke, the American Ameri-can minister, who last Saturday and Sunday personally visited Antwerp and other places in Belgium. Mr. Van Dyke Baid: " 'The problems of food and employment em-ployment in Belroum iluring the win? ter arc fculng to bo very serloUS. It Is possible that the problem of food, even hero in Holland, may be difficult. diffi-cult. " l gather that Antwerp Is not much Injured, btit even there the problems of water supply, food and employment employ-ment are acute. Waelhem, Rfallnes. Duffel and Llerre are reduced to ruins and eannot re elvo back more than one-third of their original populations. pop-ulations. The resumption of industries indus-tries In small towns js impossible and a great part of the land under cultivation has been laid In waste." "Henry Albert Jobuson. American consul at Ghent, Is visiting here today. to-day. He says the need for food I very great. He will heartily co-ou- erate In Its distribution One of the I members of the Brussels committee arrived here from Brussels this morning. morn-ing. He urged immediate relief for the suffering population, particularly those In Brussels, Charleroi and their neighborhoods. Minister Van Dyke's tour of investigation in-vestigation reveals the fact that while the Dutch people have risen magnificently magnifi-cently to the task of caring for Belgian Bel-gian refugees now in Holland, great distress continues "At Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom there are two camps with 25,-OOfl 25,-OOfl $e)gl&n refugees, mostly women. Many of them have tiny babes or larger children Their condition Is pitiful They are terrified, they huvo no money There are various kinds of illnesses among these refugees, but no epidemics." |