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Show NUNS AND CHARGES NEARjTARIATION RELIEF REACHES BELGIAN CONVENT CON-VENT BARELY IN TIME TO SAVE LIVES OF INMATES. For Weeks Sisters Had Sheltered and Fed Children Until All Were Starving Starv-ing When Relief Came From Charitable Americans. London. Herbert Clark Hoover, chairman of the American commission commis-sion for relief in Belgium, on Friday received from the commission's representative repre-sentative in the Belgian province of Brabant a pathetic account of the relief re-lief from imminent starvation of the inmates of the convent of the Soeurs Oblates, near Louvain, comprising sixty-five nuns and 400 homeless children. chil-dren. For weeks the sisters had sheltered and fed the children and it was not until the supplies of the convent were almost exhausted that they sent an appeal to the commission for help. On receipt of the request for aid food was dispatched immediately to the convent. The delegate who accompanied ac-companied the food was received by the mother superior in a tattered habit. The nuns greeted the American Ameri-can flag with tears in their eyes. "Children in rags and with bare legs crowded about, asking if it were true that food was coming," the report says. 'Many of the larger children, with pale and aged faces, showed plainly the terrible experiences through which they had passed." As the delegate was leaving the mother superior said: "Thank God, one country at least has peace and can so nobly show her sympathy for those at war." |