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as one baking for their Army the Commission will withdraw its relief and tell the world. the reasons. This it must do for its own protection, lest it be overwhelmed by the indignation of Americans at home. No The following articlo concludes a series philanthropic work was over more carefully which has appeared in The Times descrih, surutinized by the subscribers than this doors was still to be seen the notice :-"This CRANOSHA, British str., 1,463, F. C. Gam
which is operating between the naval forces of one belligerent and the land forces of another to succour the victims of war.
ing the state of Belgium in the grip of Germany and the measures taken by American helpers and by the Belgians them selves to mitigate the lot of the stricken people.
(PROM AN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT,) When? When will the Allies come? The eyes of every Belgian seemed to ask ne they lighted with the recognition of something in my countenance, manner, or dress which
chamcterized my race.
Thus for the Gerinar have absolutely kopt faith. Not only that, but the Commission has secured an order that no more cattle or fodder, or any form of provender for man and
And what of Louvain 1 you may ask. For Louvain characterizes Belgium's ordeal to the outside world. In the company of M. Alfred Nerinex, the provisional hurgemaster. I strollest among thoruins. Onsome of the house house is not to be burned without orders." As we paused and looked at the blackened walls of the University he said, confidently, Wo shall rebuild it. He had been the pro- fessor of international law there, After the burning and its accompanying horrors the
bill, 28th March Melbourne 19th. February, General. Butterfield &
wire. CHEIAN MARU, Japanese str., 1,006, Maka, 16th March-Kinhon Bay 18th March, Balt-Osaka Shosen Kaisha, ag
beast, will be requisitioned while the Com- nar burgomaster, who was old and CITYDEN, British str. 1,177, W. Ross.
mission continues its work. When some bakers were found to be sifting out the white flour for sale to restaurants and hotels, and mixing the residue of bran with that given to the people, the German authorities offered their assistance in punishing the culprits.
I came to think of the whole nation breathing this word as the last at night and Reasons of cold policy influence German the first in the morning. I heard it when I co-operation with the Commission. Without went into a shop to ask for a cigar; at the outside aid either the Germans must allow Cathedral door from a woman who was going the Belgians to starve or feed them from to pray; from the flower-woman in front of their own stores. In that case starvation the Hotel de Ville in Brussels; from a waiter would be the alternative; for German who bent close to my car as he kept a look-public opinion, let alone German economy of resources, would not give a mouthful out that no German should overhear him;
aily of the hated British.
health, with other refugees from his town, went to Holland. Then it was that the scholar turned man of action at the call of the helpless and stunned people who were without a leader.
Across from the old cathedral, rent and smoke blackened in his office in the Hotel de Ville, which stands intact, he practises inter- national law in his dealing with Germans for the protection of his people, whom he, in turn, directs and advises with a wisdom which the last five months have oven him to possess. Helallows no man who a strong enough to labour to get free bread. If Louvain were to be rebuilt the time to begin was immediately, reasoned M. Nerinex. Whoever was able to i would not help clean the streets and pilo
in keeping with the glimpse I had of more true Belgian The spirit shown at Louvain, than one man at work trying to nisko a home turn by shellfire habitable, is too fine to be allowed to die for want of bread.
(from people leaving the bread-line with their to the despised and shed popul- bricks deserved to go hungry, for he was no
Then
they rations. Usually it was whispered.
habit of whispering grows on a people tion would riot and throw themselves against under the martial rule of a conqueror. All Gorman layonets, and to force su svolt one could answer was, "Patience! England through bloodshed which would revolt is making a big Army. The French Army humanity would require increased numbors gets better every day. Spring is coming of Landsturm guards. If Germany's only The victory of the Allies menne not only the interest in keeping Belgium from starving is return of freedom to the Belgians, but of the one of policy, then the duty of the rest of aneans of earning a living Conditions for the world in succouring Belgium is one of the Belgian people at home must continue to conscionco, grow worse until the Gorman evacuation. Every month will see more idleness; every month will see more families forced to ask for their bread in charity because their savings are exhausted.
On that happy day when the Allies raise the Belgian flag again over Antwerp Belgium will ask no further aid. Her credit is such with the world that it will buy supplies until her factories, once more running, send forth their products into the world markets to realjust her trade balance. Then her own relief committees or her own Government will take over the burden of the frienils who have come to her rescueand the administrative work now gone by the American Commission
for Relief in Belgium.
BELIEF WORKS.
If those in the world who most deserve help are those who are willing to help them selves, then the Belgians at home are worthy of all that me been done for them. The well-to-do Belginns of all classes, with their incomes cut or altogether stopped, with business enterprises ut a standstill and the future uncertain, have gone into their own pockets to assist in feeding the poor. Their subscriptions to the relier fund amount to £146,000. "The British Government has given £100,000; the New South Wales, New Zealand, and Queensland Governments £80,000; the Glasgow and West of Scotland Belgian Relief Fond $20,000; miscellaneous public subscriptions £63,000; Canadian gift cargoes (estimated) £157,000; the Spanish Relief Fund £4,184; and from the United States, through the Rockefeller Foundation and the different States Committees, has come £$10,000.
Belgium is not conquered. Here is a vic- Jory of mind over the bayonets thint fence her. She is still it buffer for England and France against their exeries; a moral force Yet isn't it possible, you may ask, that indomitably fighting on their side; a more while the conduct of their right hand is ex-telling example than Alsace-Lorraine of the emplary, the Germans are secretly forcing fuility of trying to rule a civilized people tribute from timorous bakers with their against their will in this a left 1 They are not, because every bakor who has the privilege of baking from the Commission must now produce an amount of bread in keeping with the quality and quantity of the flour which he receives. They are not, because of the character of the men who supervise the work
THE AMERICAN- STUDENT,
Cecil Rhodes little dreamed when he founded the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford that the American students would be em ployed in an inspectorial capacity to make sure that the hungry people of little Belgium who had sacrificed themselves as the ally of Trance and England should receive all the loaves which the English-speaking world gave in the impulse of kindred generosity Besides these men, chosen for Oxford after they have finished their college courses in the United States, there are other Americans who were already in Europe or hastened across the Atlantic from America to enlist in an appealing enterprise.
These young men talk of their provinces like so many sympathetic rulers and of canal boat cargoes as if they had been in the trans- portation business all their lives. They have the activity of youth moving here and there in the Commission's motor cars contributed from America, on their errands of practical philan thropy. The sport of it, if nothing else, would make them prompt in bringing to book any German commander who might be tempted to purloin a consignment of four.
ago.
PRISONERS OF WAR TO BE PROMOTED.
NO UNIFORMS FOR CIVILIAN CORPS.
In the course of the Army debated in the House of Commons last month Mr. Tennant, on behalf of the War Office, inade several interesting announcements. The Brst was a speeding up of promotion. The Government proposed that when an officer is taken prisoner or is missing, temporary rank shall be given for the first three months, to be made pormoncut after that period. This will apply to all ranks and the Under Secretary claim. ed that it was a liberal change, inasmuch as prisoners of war would obtain the promotion under the rule.
In announcing the formation of a small delegation of members of Parliament to visit the internment camps, Mr. Tennant explained that German prisoners were given free postage, were allowed to have English newspapers, and received pay
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DELGIAN WORKERS.
Both the American Commission and the Belgian leaders and officials realize the dan ger of creating a dependent class by charity Bach State of the United States has its and the importance of providing work where own relict organization. ·Certain States ever possible for the population. Lack of committees have undertaken to load one occupation only encounges Belgian bitter. ship. Many of the gifts from the Unitedness to feed on itself these grey winter days, States and Canada are either in grain or Anything to keep the mind off ROBY. When money is subscribel the Com How often I heard Belgians say that, with- mission turns it into supplies on the Ameri-out finishing the sentence. Anything to ean market. Except forclerks and stenogya-keep the mind off. I have tried to phers all the workers of the Commission convey the finish of the sentence in what 1 have volunteered their services. It is a have written. Belgian women are as busy practical, businesslike organization, directed by men of business and professional expori ence who were best suited for the prompt establishment of a going concern of this kind.
with their home relief problems as English women with theirs. In the company of one of the women's committee in Brus- sely I went to the great skating rink which has been transformed into a dothing From the railways of the United States and depot, Here I saw boxes from England and Holland it has secured concessions in rates. America being opened, and men's and boys Thanks to this, and to sauny ceannies due to caps and suits, and women's skirts and cloake, the world's generosity and saving from mid- and babies' sweaters, and about every article dismen's profits, it is able to make a profit of of clothing in the category being removed, £160,000 a month by the sale of bread at the classified according to nature and service ruling London price to those who can affordability, and piled in separate bins. In the to pay,
ments that the well-to do, by sewing room I was shown many women busy which paying no more than the Loudoner for his making repairs to wom garments. louf, are giving £150,000 monthly to suits with holes in the knees and elbows feed their destitute fellow countrymen. To were being cut down and remade into ser- economy in distribution, as a matter viceuble boys' suits. It all gives work, et sourd zdumustrative policy, a small con- work which helps to kept their mind off of
"said my companion. tribution is now being levied on the com- manes, which promises to yield about She took me into the boot department, 175,000 a month.
where all manner of destitute, from children to old men and women, were being served from a row of shelves.
Thus some $100,000 a month is left to be collected by public subscriptions. Including the three months it has been carrying on the work and the cargoes of flour on the way, the Commission is alreaily committer to an expenditure £1,100,000 in excess of the pre- sont cash resources, in the confidence that the world would never permit Belgium to starve.
The United States has so far given enough food for two months Though the subscrip tions continue, their volume is decreasing. Times are hardd in Amerita. New York has its own bread-line and a record number of unemployed. Only in the great grain-grow- ing districts or where war material and army supplios are manufactured is thero prosperity. A friend writes from home I have given to the Belgians and shall give again. But after all, Belgium is far away, and it is Ameri- cans, not Belguns, who ask me in the streets of my own town for bread."
THE GERMAN ATTITUDE.
Men's
There was some leather in the country which the Germans had not requisitioned [she says, so we set our shoe factories going with the money we sulscribed. Every customer who can afford it pays cost price. You notice that all are required to leave, their old shoes bohind and walk away in the new ones. Sometimes the old are capable of repair, and this gives occupation to cobblers. And who do you think act as our clerks in trying on Why, those who fastened on the states in happier days.
When I parted with her it was to have n look at a queue of mothers with their babes in arms receiving their daily rations of baby food in another part of Brussels Finched, worn, old-looking babies and chubby, rosy-cheeked babies were wolcorned with impartial amiles by the volunteer women workers of different classes of society, It goes without saying that the Americans who have forgotten all casts in the whosubscribe to Belgian reliefare not German-hour of distress. Everywhere I was struck
reflective of oppressed and not the conquerorsreceive their
highly organized gifts. The word of the German Government people. on this
The broad-lines are longest, the drawn will not satisfy their scepticism. Letters of inquiry continue to faces the salest where the factory population pour in on Mr. Whitlock, the American is largest. In Liége I stood for two hours Minister at Brussels, asking if he is quite watching a lino go past. The smaller the certain that the Germans are keeping faith community the less company there is in the and how the Commission is able to prevent general misery, the more closely the military them from breaking it if they choose. These guardianship is felt, yet there is no are the questions every Englaliman also will diminution in loyalty of the sufferers to the ask. The noent the Germans take so much Allies cause.
Mr. Tennant was severe on the advo- cates of uniforms for Volunteer Train- ing Corps, He recalled the Napoleonic dies of the day joined the Volunteers and stayed at home. The War Office, its spokesman said emphatically did not want that, The last thing they desired was that young men should have the alter- natives of going and fighting for their pantry and of staying at home strutting
about in a uniform.
The Under-Seereary was very frank on the value of inoculation against typhoid.. He refused to withdraw his statement that evidence was accumulating in favour of compulsory inoculation.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
Under instructions of Secretary Garrison of the War Department at Washington, changes are being prepared in the regulations for computation of Panama Canal tolls, which it is estimated will result in a decrease of approximately 20 per cent, in the revenues of the Canal from the classes of freight affected
It was discovered that the fixing of the tolls under the Panama Canal rules at 81.20 per ton was illegal, the rate being greater than that sanctioned by law. This arose from the difference between. a ton as defined by the Canal rules and a registered ton as measured under the United States utatute for ship registra- tion.
The latter definition was applied in the Panama Canal Set by Congress, which provided for a maximum caarge of $1.25, 0
The new rules will provide that the
aggregate bolle paid by a vessel at the rate of $1.20 per Canal ton must not exceed the aggregate tolls as computed on the basis of 81.25 per registered ton.
The question arose specifically in con- nection with lumber dockloads. Pacifo Coast shippers claimed that an illegally high rate was being charged for such
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SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE. GENERAL HERTZOG'S POSITION.
The Legislative Assembly has accepted. Mr. Merriman's amendment of General Hertzog's motion for a select committee to inquire into the causes of the rebellion, whether it was due to German Intrigue, or whether the object was to restore the independence of South Africa. A select committed is to be appointed by the Speaker.
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