A WONDERFUL RECOVERY.
REPAIRING WAR DEVASTATION IN FRANCE.
(Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) PARIS, February 22.
The wonderful recovery of France from war desolation is described by M. Andre Tardieu (Minister of Public Works) who is in charge of the Department of devastated regions. At the time of the Armistice there were half a million houses and nine thousand factories requiring to be repaired or completely rebuilt, while, apart from the reclamation of land and the reconstruction of coal mines, there wore thirtyfive thousand miles of roads and fifteen thousand miles of railways to be repaired. The estimated sum required was 88,000 million francs. M. Tardieu at a banquet at Rheims, said that out of this total 73,000 million francs had been spent and France had been able to make good out of her own resources practically the whole of the devastation. The result was that the devastated districts were now contributing 9000 million frances annually in taxation.—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 23 February 1927, Page 5
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159A WONDERFUL RECOVERY. Wairarapa Age, 23 February 1927, Page 5
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