BELGIAN RELIEF
AMERICAN FOOD TRANSPORT' SUSPENDED. (Rec. February o, 3.30 p.m.) New York, February 4. Mr. H. C. Hoover, Chairman of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, says that Belgian reliof trans-' portation has been, temporarily suspended. The situation may he- most serious for the Belgians, but ho is hopeful that relief operations will shortly be 1 resumed. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . Mr. tHoover says that fifteen- relief commission ships are'in or near the war zone. If the service is long paralysed the situation of ten million people in Belgium'will he awful to contemplate. Ho will ask Germhny, through tlio Spanish Ambassador, to open a lane of safety for these supply ships.—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn. NO SAFETY GUARANTEED. (Rec. February 5, 7.J.<J5 p.m.) New York, February 5. . Germany has iui'ormcd the Belgian Relief Commission that sho will no longer respect its ships -unless they . take a course For Holland.north of tlio now Gorman war zona: Mr. Hoover states that the combined British and: German minefields completely cut off the approaches by the route mentioned. —Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2996, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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