Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-10
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
COMING FROM FRANCE
War-Swept Country Depends on u. s..
for Reconstruction of It's Whole
Industrial System.
FRENCH COMMISSION !
AS Guarantee of Prediction, Orders
Amounting to S5OO,0O0,000 VIII
BE Placed Soon-Proposes COM
mercial War on Germany.
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NEW YORK, November 9.-Billlons
of dollars will be spent in this coun-
try on industrial, commercial and agri-
cultural materials IL the plans of the
French Commercial Commission. which
cessful.
All the money France has spent in
the past in Germany for machinery and
equipment will be sent here. the com
missloners said. and as n guarantee OF
the worth of their prediction something
like 00,00o. 900 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 Deputies. is chair
man OF the French Commercial and In
dustrial Commission. and with him
arrived J. Lesueur, agricultural engi-
neer, and official delegate of the De-
partment OF Agriculture; l.. Trincano.
director of the National Matchmaking
School OF Besancon. and official dele
gate OF the Department of Commerce.
French Spinning Industry and secre-
tary of the French Syndicate of Spin
ners. and NJ. Chauffeur. a Paris banker.
Representatives of the Bank Of Paris
the Bnnquc Rationale de Credit, the
Lyons Chamber of Commerce and the
Metal Industries will arrive on the next
steamer from Bordeaux.
OnJIsCT is TO RE-IsQiIP
AKIN Nnnysn ~ 4 -
Our object is TO re-cquip and mod
ernize the French Industrial factories
and shops destroyed by the war" NJ.
Damour said. Besides this, we wish
10 effect general modernization of
all French commercial, Industrial and
agricultural lines. The industrial era
of the United States in France is at
hand. The United States must furnish
the material for the rebuilding of
Frances industries.
with our population reduced by the
war, we will bc compelled o equip our
will take the place OF hand labor. We
expect to buy such machinery in the
United states.
"IIcretofore we have spent SlG0. .00O,-
900 in Germany each year for ma
chinery alone. That money will now
come to the United States. These fig
urcs are very small in comparison with
what will he spent in the future, owing
to the fact that practically all the
machinery in Northern France has been
destroyed. Our orders will cover every
kind OF machinery made. including
agricultural implements, tools. hard
ware and spinning machinery. Every
industry in France needs new ma
chinery. and the most modern obtain
able.
"l'rench and American bankers will
co operate in this rigantic undertake
ing-thc remodeling Of Il nation. We
need the o-operation of the financial
and Industrial representatives Of Amer
lea to further the industrial future Of
France.
ORDERS WILL RUN INTO
billions or DOLLARS
Our orders will run up into billions
of dollars, for we must not only re-
place the destroyed workshops of
France. but reconstruct the shops OF
the rest of the republic as we'll But
In turn wee want the United States to
buy the manufactured output that the
United States formerly purchased from
Germany. We viii rot go into compc-
tition with your factories and shops.
but ask you to purchase the goods you
have not extensively made In the past,
but got from Germany"