----------+------+------+----+-----+-----+----+---+-----+----+-------+--------- Despatched|Wheat | Flour|Rice|Peas | Salt|Po- |Ba-|Maize|Sun-|Cloth- |Subsi- or | | | |and | |ta- |con| |dry | ing | dies to Remitted | | | |Beans| |toes| | | | (value|Provin to-- | | | | | | | | | | in | cial | | | | | | | | | |Francs)|Commit- | | | | | | | | | | | tees (in | | | | | | | | | | | France) ----------+------+------+----+-----+-----+----+---+-----+----+-------+--------- Province | | | | | | | | | | | of | | | | | | | | | | | Antwerp | 3,525| 1,247| --| 126| --| 2| --| 713| --|100,880| 300,000 Brussels | | | | | | | | | | | and | | | | | | | | | | | District | 3,371| 1,329| 13| 247| 6| --| --| 90| 82|379,058| 300,000 Brabant | 2,962| 1,486| --| 31| 116| 4| 24| 548| 57|101,916| -- Western | | | | | | | | | | | Flanders | 542| 519| 59| 48| 20| --| --| --| 23| 41,059| 170,000 Eastern | | | | | | | | | | | Flanders | 4,419| 1,982| 37| 46| 4| --| 3|1,120| 14| --| 300,000 Hainaut | 5,602| 3,739| 258| 350| --| 74| --| 181| 293| 81,493| 550,000 Liége | 3,356| 1,242| --| 5| --| --| --| 200| 80| 4,860| 280,000 Limburg | 1,539| 1,466| 11| --| --| 22| --| 200| 35| 41,477| 160,000 Luxemburg | 209| 853| 1| 58| --| --| --| --| --| 16,656| 160,000 Namur | 1,011| 346| --| 60| --| --| --| 150| 89| 95,307| 203,000 General | | | | | | | | | | | Stock, | | | | | | | | | | | Brussels | 446| 119| --| 8|2,268| 38| --| --| 239| --| -- Various | | | | | | | | | | | Charities| --| --| --| --| --| --| --| --| --| 9,687| -- ----------+------+------+----+-----+-----+----+---+-----+----+-------+--------- Totals |27,476|14,338| 359| 979|2,414| 140| 27|3,202| 912|822,379|2,423,000 ----------+------+------+----+-----+-----+----+---+-----+----+-------+--------- Since the month of January 1915 the National Committee has not ceased to extend its activities. But it is impossible to give more precise data. The German authorities no longer permit the Committee to publish its reports. In their dry, official manner they show us only too clearly what we are to think of the present "prosperity" of Belgium and the "normal state of the situation." * * * * *