Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1918 — EXILED BELGIAN TOTS SEND GREETINGS 10 U. S. CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

EXILED BELGIAN TOTS SEND GREETINGS 10 U. S. CHILDREN

Washington. “Fraternal and cordial greetings” have been sent America’s school children by 600 Belgian girts and boys now returning toom exfle at Havre, A giant scroll bearing some 620 names thanks American children for the aid their country had sent Belgium through the war years. "Long live the alfiesl Long live Belgium! Long live the United States of America! Honor to the American Red Cross and to its Caamdsston for Belgium! "The Belgian setMton, boys and gMs, in exile in the Havre rsgton, appreciate with a deep emotion the value and the reality of the high services rendered by the American Red Cross to the Belgian population, driven out of their dear country, and refugees in a foreign land. “They have themselves folt Its constant and generous solicitude, always ready where there la a good to do, a infamy to relieve, a nriefortane to eoaafort. “They also send their gratafol and moat affectionate remembrance to the kind children of America, whose tothen and big brothers have crossed the Mg oeean either for the American Bed Ooas or in the gallant, powerfal and glorious American army so share in the triumph and the right ot dvffisation, to help the Belgians roeonstrnct their homes, and—to sava< their country. “Fraternal and cordial gseettign to our little comrades, toe I M ericas toholars.”