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Show oo THREE MILLIONS AREJTARVINO Urgent Appeal for Food Is Sent to United States From Ambassador Page. New York, Nc 7 2 Three million women and children in Belgium aow are suffering actual hunger, accord-ling accord-ling to a cablegram from Waiter- Eilnes ! Page. United State ambassador (o Great Britain, received here tuda by j Norman Hupgood of the committee ol I mercy. "I hope you are in a position to buy and ship Immediately a boat load of food to the American consul at Rotterdam Rot-terdam under a neutral flag." reads the cablegram "He is the local agent of the international commission of relief, to whem consignments are shipped I hope the committee of mercy will do our country the honor to send a cargo of food quickly to tho worst stricken three million women and chlldreu in the whole world who are now suffering actual hunger Cable Ca-ble answer." The committer s replj had not been sent this forenoon Ambassador Page calls attention in his message, to the fact that England had forbidden ex- i port of foodstuffs and that all must 1 come from America "This does not call for the sending of money to England," reads the mi B-aago B-aago "No food can be bought au-where au-where in Europe " |