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100	1		_aShaw, Flora L. _q(Flora Louisa), _d1852-1929
245	1	4	_aThe work of the War Refugees Committee
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-24
508			_aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520			_aThe work of the War Refugees Committee by Flora L. Shaw is a wartime public address and organizational account written in the early 20th century. It describes how Britain mobilized voluntary and government resources to shelter and support Belgian civilians displaced by the First World War. The likely topic is the origins, scale, methods, and evolving challenges of the War Refugees Committee’s relief work. The book traces the scheme’s genesis in prewar Ulster evacuation plans, its swift coordination with church leaders, the Foreign Office, and the Belgian Government, and the rapid formation of a non-sectarian committee that was immediately flooded with public offers of help. It recounts the first makeshift refuges, the conversion of buildings into hostels, and the creation of core departments—correspondence, transport, allocation, local committees, and clothing—that together found homes for about 100,000 people. Vivid testimonies from early arrivals convey the atrocities they endured, while the narrative shows how government reception centers (notably Alexandra Palace and Earl’s Court) soon supplemented voluntary efforts, providing food, shelter, medical care, schooling, and chaplaincy. During the peak after Antwerp’s fall, the committee managed complex logistics to receive thousands daily and allocate small family groups to hosts nationwide; later, with the flow shifting to urban refugees and private hospitality waning, policy turned to encouraging employment, army recruitment, and targeted aid for professional and propertied families. The speaker outlines new solutions—free hostels in large houses, help with furnished flats, educational placements, health services, and a “missing relatives” bureau—while paying tribute to hundreds of volunteers. The address closes with a pledge to sustain this work until repatriation becomes possible. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1915
653			_aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees
653			_aWar refugees committee, London, 1914-
856	4		_uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102686914
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77327
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