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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-02-21, Page 6- ,- m r Tea., will goI uta"ther FiA ? w. f.o'n Grit give r t t t.ort:. than. i7otl' Other "re:A., is wto e'tp I":° ! only in the barest outlines. The dans- '�5 C Ati,"i, �5t1"f. l �� 11" age inflicted upon the industries of eatese.eneeesseeeesseeeseeeeeatess�x e- x - '':': eaereeeesseeee Northern France immeasurable ale motet as it is, in reality affords no true w� c 'mparison with the wholesale devas'La- LOSSES .11 TOTAL UPWARDS OIC A BILLIO11 —DESTRUC:TICON COMPLETE •— $1.50,00,000 Additional Is Estimated for Wages Which Ceased When Hun Laid Land Waste. The losses suffered by the national industries of Belgium can be indicated ;. I`e ' r,.1 1'A) Y1. Ill ri ,a1.i gin -epee ieee.,:ety ,t e 1, 1 tation that has overtaken the indus- tries throughout occupied Belgium. The _entire country seems to have been blighted. Especially around Charley '.1u -i _• , ,',e :, ate.: elf, I guess rot factories and foundries have been sacked, gutted and wrecked. Next to •,.�„ it l s �:' ' tt:°• :i` she the Yser region, 1 have seen rel Bel- ee :1:t iso i;• i+ : a hear before the x.; W '�. ._ t!hoe., , .e. es. -1 + ,-:.:' flints open ilium no More depressing sight than. e, to I , e • ` Sot.: ;' l vire ,11,,,:l lt ;n 1 h.l threshold there charred and roofless ruins, with fe e.1 %'' this C1 . , 1 l 4Mt .,i. steed a o-1 ons • eiil w e i . n t len. l ith .wide eyes. In here and there a gaunt chimney shaft ,,,,, ;....t•:1" her arm_ :i.r tried the dress, the protesting to heaven from among ?inn) pini i,.:LI U . -• withhat end int'all, Without any spot- shapeless heaps of broken masonry t. {t ti nt 1,' weer -„ Ons eneerernanlaus way in ^,a wondertb peel. c og• s a e Z.11iie4". r�ia:l entered, she crossed and machinery. Equally mournful are eee red ; rati:r 1 i's; -Ll •t the works have been left ,1 thatstand- ve + ,• z.,. lowing to the i a- h leer and held out ticked ofbank • in;—cn:lity shells, with broken twin Sl t t,. `:o es end a crempled tae) lied. 'Here!" she said huskily t`This is 1, kit Weil, The _ 1;er ih it your.. 1 f^uilc1 it at the Station just cee'_eeaandneatly :4i'.e.:• Ati �n utter ou dropped it. I picicei1 it up, eves os aver. the elder Vrinnan harried then hen 1 saw you and knew you the , ,:; + r)• the t :tele to the Sink. and must have dropped it, because you I'll she them alone to -night, Al -.were the only person except the sta- 't11a :?hC .l.u. • ,L'tl' `roof 1. en t10n master and me who had been raid buil a . P ells Alis Graf- as ) P � these dorm dows. Estimate of Loss Heavy Belgians themselves, who are by no means pessimistic about things, frank- ly confess that, failing Allied sup port, their industry would never again g the morning. But I be able to make good. The most au- ten ut ; eerl eev•' yo <. _•1 hints_ 11e11 , ,,1.'t 1 • efid,l t want to admit it. I kept saying ' so,„,..,,ix, 1 t way of c2t alta, to myself, 'Perhaps she didn't. I'm theritative calculation of the damage tic. to -Ethel, r c s to rte a T�lt1 not obliged. to ask.' And so I kept that I can ascertain is a total sun] of t1 '11 Cl x, and t e dewand het anare it.„ considerably more than $1,250,000, fee1tv ire has teem pres r ing Ethel was too thoroughly surprised 000. This total is put forward by M. f t Soy- for thvit�li,a 4G tiled wards, and Aivira _event on in Cartier, president of the Central corn - 1 ar::