SUFFERING BELGIAN PEOPLE
THREE MILLIONS IN DESPERATE STRAITS > REPORT BY AMERICAN COMMISSION (Received October 31, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 30th October. The American Commission visited Cha'rleroi, Liege ? Brussels, Mons, iNainur, and Dinaat. It states that the condition of three million Belgians is desperate. The daily rations, which will last three weeks ouij, 1uu0... v. „ .-i flour and ten grammes of salt. Only sufficient flour remains for four days. The condition of Liege is particularly pitiable, and it is feared that in desperation the famish^! people may attack the Germans. Fourteen hundrea tons of foodstuffs leave London on Saturday next.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 106, 31 October 1914, Page 7
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98SUFFERING BELGIAN PEOPLE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 106, 31 October 1914, Page 7
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