Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-26

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 the demoralization of the German army in its final retreat, many of these beasts were abandoned or sold by soldiers, to the peasants furth- CT back, and in practical results there appears to have been no widespread cattle stealing in the retreat, al though during the four years of occu patton there has been great dim mutton, probably over one half, in the total number of cattle and hogs. It can be said almost literally, that horses have disappeared out of Bel gium, there probably not being fifteen per cent of the original animals left. Investigation proves that indus trial residential destruction in Bel gium varies greatly in different local ities, and with different industries. For instance: Out of the fifty steel furnaces in Belgium, thirty five or forty have been deliberately destroy ed by Germans in their determination to end the Belgian steel industry. Many of the textile mills have been put out of commission, either through  machinery, or by removal of the Some of the textile mills of the more antiquated type of equipment can be gotten into action at any early date. The Germans seem to have been fo- cused themselves on the modern equipments.
 .'The glass industry has been but little interfered with. and the stern promise of retribution by President Wilson seems to have saved the coal industry except for very few mines although actual explosives and wires were laid in place fo~ the destruction of 3 large number of the mines.
 There are some 3n0,0 GOO French refugees in Belgium driven out of Northern France by the Germans. They have been cared for out of the meager stores of the<<Be'gians and by the commission for relief in Bel gium. They eye. however. like hom- ing pigeons in their resolve to return to their native villapes. As there is no transpoltation the roads south- ward into France are a continuous stream of these nitifu' groups of men. women. and cNildran. nnl'ino their carts and trudgino thropgh the cold and wind toward their destrov- ed hor,es Fvervthir~ is being done that is humane'v nossih'e but in tho presant state of demoralization with moving ar'a'ies. and the nacassitv of us'np every truck and horse with which to feed tho nonn'"tion their rEoht is haarthr oa'5ir~ Thew refne Q all narsuasion to wait in the rrowd- cd Belcian vi'faoas until their af- fsfrs can he organized.
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