DEVASTATED FRANCE
SOME COMPELLING FIGURES. Paris, May IS. It is authoritatively estimated that the material damage in Uie French devastated areas amounts to 800 millions sterling for agricultural depreciation, 850 millions for damaged and destroyed buildings, and 400 millions for loss of furnituro. Many villages cannot be rebuilt owing to changes in the subsoil and tho presence of explosives and 6oldiors' bodies. Fifty thousand acres of arablo land can never again be worked. The depreciation duo to trench-making is set down at 53 millions, and the depreciation in the luick areas due to the overgrowth of weeds and grass at 50 millions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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104DEVASTATED FRANCE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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