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Show BELGIUM HAS ITS HUNGRY THOUSANDS - London, Nov. 27, 7:40 p. m. "The population or Belgium, which must be red during the winter, probably will be many thounands more than seemed likely a very short time ago." This is the conclusion reached by a special commissioner delegated by the American commission ror the relief re-lief or Belgium to make an investigation investi-gation The. commissioner sent a telegraphic report from Rotterdam today to-day to Herbert Clark Hoover, chair man of the American commission. Speaking of the Belgian refugees in the south of Hollnnd, the commissioner commis-sioner said large numbers, most of Whom belonged to the agricultural element, had returned to Belgium or wore going to return, with the result re-sult that there would be an enormous addition to the starving population, as It Is impossible to get work. At Bergen-op-Zoom there are 3000 refugees refu-gees living In tents. Most, of the tents shelter two families. With the ground like a quagmire and the cold almost unbearable, the refugees eit huddled ardUnd a i-maii fire by day , and sleep on straw at night "One tent contained two men, their 1 Kivea and n couple of children," the report said "One of the women was expecting to become a mother in two or three days " Recenl arrivals from Antwerp admitted ad-mitted that the Germans were read ;ind anxious :o give them work, but added : "They pa us with pieces o! paper, telling us that some day it will be good mone) but it will not bus food.' Refugees from small villages which hi American commission has not yet been able to relieve t-ald the daces had been cleared of rood by the Germans, Ger-mans, who have also requisitioned all the cattle, so that actual starvation faced tin- people remaining al home i no |