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Show GERMANS TOOK ALL FOOD SENT LONDON. March 28, 4:05 a. m The Times is printing the narrative of an Englishman J. P. Whitaker, who has just e scaped from Roubaix. where he says he lived for thirty months during the German occupation without with-out the Germans discovering his nationality. na-tionality. Mr. Whitaker described today the time when the food supply ran ui and the town was ajniost wholly depend-eiii depend-eiii on the American relief commission. commis-sion. He says that but for the commission com-mission all the people would have starved, rich and poor alike "Unfortunately," says Mr. Whitaker. 'there is evidence that the German army contrived to intercept for itself! part of the food sent by the commission commis-sion One who had good reason toj know icikl me that more than once j trainloads of supplies which had left Brussels for Roubaix failed to arrive "Analysis of bread in some cases ; showed German rye flour, including 30 per cent of Bawdust, which had j been substituted for white American Clour, producing an indigestible and putty-like substance whic h brought illness ill-ness and death to many. The mortality mortal-ity from this cause was so great at one period that the grave dlggeri could not keep pace with it." oo |