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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
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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
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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 -
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