Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1915-03-04
GERMANS HANDLE
WAR AS BUSINESS
''hNl>NloN> ORGANIZED 10
PROVIDE IOR CONTINUANCL
OF MD SIEIES

"N' u"F 10 the running OF their
armies but to the administration OF
the occupied parts OF France and
f'igium IN order 10 keep agriculuu-
90 ana manufacturing enterprise
alive and 90 make the occupied ter
i'tory contribute 10 the support OF
the armies
Business commissions have boon
organized at various points Tho
DUTY of these is 10 provide for tho
'oni!nuagc, 90 wurk iu field aud
tbclory aud 10 gather up such sup
piles as may be- required for th1 use
81 the armlc- or may be- available
tor shipment 10 Germany within
g week or two after the Germans
bad occupied Liego. the great arm
factories there were turning out
ammunition and arms Tor the Ger
man armie coal mines in southern
Belgium soon resumed operation
for thr account AZ M German
government and tho commissions
have now opened Wide field OF
activity IN the rich industrial region
of northern Franc,
Tho problems for tho commissions
ir Belgium and France we're wide
4, imilsr In Belgium they vero
confronted with a suporahund1uro
ot labor and f,V raw materials. iu
northern France -rrai masro. of 90
material have been found hui No,
labor 10 work them up is lcarkus
Much Of the Rrlriau raw material
Boa peace time ''rcpt iron and coal
vat imported from uhruad Tb"
markets for tlu finished produria
were also abroad and cannot hr
reached owing 60 The wac Tho pro
llom IN Belgium is therefore Goo
find work for the up,rahuudaul 90
boi supply
w France on tho other hand. tho
mobilization took practically every
lblohodicd man into the army uu1
there is great scarcity OF native
gbor In tn regions occupied What
ever work Is undertaken There must
%, done by women. children and the
a-od and inform. sometimes oven Dos
German soldier, Some Of tho busi-
ness commissions there ar, even DIE.
GUESSING plans for bringing in farm
l1horcrs from German,
The occupied region i- 'ho richest
rart of France While % contain
g 7 per cent of the total area, b. nlr
on,.siyth OF the population aud cos
industries OF France, and there are
also very large wooden aud cotton
industries here Large supplies of
tau materials for these and other 800
dustrics we're on hand. while thor.
was no labor 20 operate the iaclor'o
These materials were Therefore
largely taken over by the German
and sem 20 Germany From Lille
and lt- vicinity @ is said, about
sl25.0oo. 600 of raw wool and wool
"a ward Vas thus cnufi,cat,d at'
shipped to Germany au amount
equal Tn q ull wears consumption of
m the German WOODEN mills rubber
iu large amounts was found elise
where Coal mines around Lille 1r.
now operated hy %. Germans tn
produce fGrl for hr railway 100 OBI.
occupied region
This strip ot France o. l'r'lI'
and highly cultivated agricultural
region Ono off the principal n.I.
of M, business commission H7.
re.u ~ provide for thr. hing Tine
wheat crop Tbro bins machine
vcr. brought 800 from GERMANY 'ul
worked ,ill late into December rItn
ont hrug able to thrc.n 30 ,ll There
gro tu great fields dotted rH0
huge stack ~ wheat which vIN
Fsrdly Do tbr,shod before Hprinr
Tho militsr, authoriiioe have iakCu
over Grain. meat. wool and other
rupprs and paid for them 900 either
Dre or With notes rul'rrtinl' after
mo end NJ Tho war This P. ALSO
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