FEEDING THE BELGIAN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 378, 24 August 1916, Page 2

FEEDING THE BELGIAN

MR. HEMPHILL'S ÜBSERVAT lONS. , - 1 u Lie course of his staler.; after a visit to Belgium Mr He hill, of New York, treasurer the Neutral Commission I r Relief of Distress in Beig~ says: —"In one relief canteen;: spected a man came up and;a complaint. There was no he said excitedly, in his sou? •" had long given up the ideam ceiving meat as part ot his meal, but if he was to live, hclared he must get some o: ;: nourishment that meat prov;.He was right. There was ;r ically no meat in the soup. what is one to do? Sue lias there is in the country w shillings a pound. THE PLIGHT OF THE CHILDREN. “There are 600,Oil') c!ul i > Belgium entirely dependantw the tender-heartedness of tim side world. A large pert'.'; -: of the remaining two niiim-; to the age of 16, are partimH endant upon relief. Thereof bringing them tin and tw keeping them alive is fee-; more and more grave. -• Belgium Relief Orgn;whas just started an extraoru-'’ interesting experiment t- ", the emergency of short nia*;-; plies in industrial centres' have asked the peasants tv ; free of charge, for one yest, • cow from each of their communal herd which vw-. vide milk for the childre-w, Antwerp, the herd now m l -?;; over 400 cattle. In other eg, the peasants are cellently to the appeal end of the year the cows returned to their ownem will be compensated Hr of cattle.