Belgium.
RELSHF URGENTLY WANTED. WIDESPREAD SICKNESS AND DEATH. AN APPEAL TO AMERICA. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Now York, September 18. The Commission for the Relief of Belgium is asking Americans for a million dollars a month in order\to avert widespread sickness and death, owing to the lack of food. The director of the Commission in America, reports that there is an alarming increase in tuberculosis, particularly among the Belgian children, due to their lessened power of resistance. Owing to inadequate diet, there is great mortality among the children. The commission bases the estimate of supplies on the assumption that the war will last another year.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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111Belgium. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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