BELGIAN RELIEF.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 152, 30 June 1916, Page 5

BELGIAN RELIEF.

AUSTRALASIA’S WORK COMPLETED. GERMANS CANNOT BE TRUSTED* Received 5-5 p.m., June 29. LONDON, June 29. The Australian representative considers that although the operations of the Belgian Commission will continue on a large scale, there is no necessity for further distressing appeals to Australasia. The Foreign Office assert that the Commission has clone its utmost to safeguard the distribution of imported foodstuffs, but admits that it is impossible to guarantee that the Germans will carry out any agreement regarding the protection of native foodstuffs, as they have full control of Belgian agriculture and industry. Australasia has clone her duty already having contributed 65 per cent, of the total subscribed throughout the Empire.