FRANCE'S FINANCE
4_ HEAVY BURDENS LEFT BY WAR NECESSARY TO BORROW FOR RECONSTRUCTION WORK By i«Booiatlon—Oopyriarht " Paris, November. 15. The Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies roportS a deficit of 2870 million francs, and says: "Franco must borrow, as Germany has failed to pay, and the Allies thus far have left us to restore the mines and factories which tho oiiemy sacked in the vesolvo to destroy industrial France. We must eifect reconstruction as far as resources, labour, ami materials will permit, as. a groat number of people in the devastated legions must pass a second and third winter in huts in which British and American workmen would not consent to live for a week." The Commission is making a laborious effort to reduce ex-penditure.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable /Issn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 7
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128FRANCE'S FINANCE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 7
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