FRANCE.
DEVASTATED AREAS.
LAND A WILDERNESS.
By Telegraph.—P.-ess Aisn.—Copyright. Paris, May 18. It is: authoritatively estimated that tLe material damage done in the French devaltated areas is as follows: 800 millions sterling for agricultural depreciation, also 850 millions for damaged and destroyed buildings, and 400 millions for, loss of furniture. Many villages cannot be re-built owing to change;.' of the subsoil and the presence of explosives and soldiers' bodies. Fifty thousand acres of arable land will never again be tillable. The depreciation due to trench-making is 53 millions; depreciation in the back areas due to the overgrowth of weeds and grasa is 50 mil-lions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1919, Page 6
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106FRANCE. Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1919, Page 6
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