Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Holland Young Lady Learns Of War Conditions In Old Home. [ARTICLE]

Holland Young Lady Learns Of War Conditions In Old Home.

Miss Susie Kanstra, a young lady from Holland, who has been in the United States for about a ye&r and a halx, recently received a letter from her sister at her old home and it told of the terrible conditions brought on by the war. She lived in a small town, about half the size of Rensselaer, and her sister told her that at the time the letter was written there were about 60 Belgian refugees and 110 English refugees there seeking safety from the war hqrrors. She also related how a Holland vessel had gathered up a lot of English sailors after a German submarine had sunk a British cruiser."" Since the letter was written Antwerp has fallen and the coast of England has been threatened and thousands upon thousands of Belgians have left for Holland. A dispatch to the Sunday papers said that the streets of many of the Holland cities were so crowded that one could scarcely pass through them. Many of the refugees are wealthy, while the wealth of many was represented by property holdings In Antwerp, which they abandoned in their haste to get away during the siege.