BELGIUM'S PLIGHT
AMERICAN COMMISSION'S
'EFFORTS.
MILLION DO'LLARS A MONTH
ASKED FOR.
TUBERCUUOSJS .CARRYING OFF BELGIAN CHILDREN.
(Reo. Sept. 19, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 18 The Commission for the relief of Belgium is asking Americans for 1,000,000 dollars a month in order to avert widespread sickness and death owing to lack of food. . . The (Director of she Commission in America reports an alarming increase m tuberculosis, particularly among Belgian children, diue to lessened- resistance, owinc to inadequate diet. There is great .mortality among children._ The Commission bases its estimate ol supplies on the assumption that the war will last another year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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101BELGIUM'S PLIGHT Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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