REBUILDING FRANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 7 December 1915, Page 3

REBUILDING FRANCE.

Billions of dollars will be spent in the United States on industrial, commercial and agricultural materials if the plans of the French Industrial and Commercial Commission, which landed in New York aboard the liner Layfayette on Noveber 9, are successful. All the money France has spent in the post in Germany for machinery and equipment will be spent in America, the cornmiss oj tsaid, and as a guarantee of the worth of their prediction something like 500,000,000 dollars in orders will be given to American manufacturers within the next few months. Maurice Damour, secretary of the Committee of Appropriations of the French Chamber of Deputi.es, is chairman of the Commission, and with him arrived L. Lesneur, agricultural engineer and social delegate of the Department of Agriculture; L. Trincane: director of the National Watchmaking School of Eezancon, and official delegate of the Department of Commerce; E. Dellaselle Thieriez, delegate of the French Spining Industry, and secretary of the French Syndicate of Spinners, and M. Chauffeur, a Parisian banker. Representatives of the Bank of Paris, the Banque Nationale de Credit, the Lyons Chamber of Commerce, and the metal industries, are following on the next steamer from Bordeaux. “Our object is to re-equip and modernise the French industrial factories and shops destroyed by the war,” Damour said. “Besides this, we wish to effect a general modernisation of all French commercial, industrial and agrciultural lines. The industrial era of the United States in France is at hand. The United States must furnish the material for the rebuilding of France’s industries. With our population reduced by the war, we will be compelled to equip our factories with modern machinery that will take the place of hand labour. We expect to buy such machinery in the United States. “We must not only replace the destroyed workshops of France, but reconstruct the shops of the rest of the Republic as well. But in return we want the United States to buy the manufactured output that the United any. Our war on Germany will not States formerly purchased from Germend with the cessation of hostilities, for Ave are going to AVgge a terrific commercial war against dur enemy.”