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Show YOUNG EUROPE CRIES FOR FID Balkan States Now Well Fed; Activities Transferred to Polish-Reel Area BERLIN. Oct. IS; fBy The Associated Asso-ciated Press i "The American relief administration will need $10,000,000 to feed the hungry children of Europe ami to maintain its warehousing work this winter," W. L Brown, who !s In charge of the European relief, said on the eve of a conference of 20 men who arc managing 1 lie association s officers in Germany. Poland. Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakla and the free state of Danzig. B VL-H W - ELL FIXED. The organization has abandoned its relief work In the majority of the Balkan Bal-kan stales, where Mr. Brown says tlwe conditions are "approaching normal although there is still much suffering," suffer-ing," but he declared that the Russo-Poilsh Russo-Poilsh war had doubled the demands I of tin' relief administration Lh Polanu I where at least 90O.,0U0 1 bildn ri and j thousands of adults are facing starvation. starva-tion. Plans are being prepared to open I warehouses and feeding stations in ! j central and southern Poland which I was devastated by the tOlshevlst8. The J I relief may also be extended eastward tin north Poland to the inhabitants j who are rendered destitute by the Russian invasion which virtually dls-j J rupted the ai rangenn nts for feeding half a million Polish . hlldien. The conditions in Hungary and Jugo-Siayia also necessitate the expenditure ex-penditure of sums aggregating the amounts which w re expended last I winter and the situation In Germany, Mr. Brown said, was such that there could be no thought of abandoning the distribution of food packages. WHITE COIJllR ( l vs A new phase of tne relief work has' , been disclosed by tile reports from I workers that the direct distress pre-I pre-I VallS among the "w hile collar class" j lin all war stricken countries. "Some, Ofthe most pitiful cases with which we have had to deal ha., been those' of salaried men and intellectuals, col-lege col-lege professors, government em plm es, J j pensioners and former army officers, I M r Brow n said. "The pride which characterizes this; class is unable (0 conceal the fact that man fcre facing actual starvation audi must have help (Jr perish this winter Until recently we had no provision to aid them but a few men who realized the situation ontrlbuted $f00,000 to be devoted exclusively to them and this will alleviate but not relieve their suffering. Their distress has been unequalled evi . n umoiig the poorest laborers and they present n problem which is much harder to solve." no . |