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New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
A Clean Sweep

The Chambers Of Commerce of Roubaix
and Tourcoing were busy compiling stats-
tics of damages. which were not complete.
They told me that in the cotton industry
the Germans had taken all the motors, all
the betting and all the brass and copper.
| might go and see them for myself
went. | found the statements correct There
is hardly a motor or belt or morsel Of brass
left in the whole industry: what has been
saved buried hidden away behind
false walls. In some of the factories there
are holes cut here and there into the walls
and floors. These we're made by German
search parties. saw spinning machines
with the steel spindles lying in heaps on the
floor They had been smashed with ham
mcrs for the brass bearings in which the
spindles run
"As for the woollen industry, an order
had come from Berlin that all looms were
to be removed, A mcrciful German officer,
who was himself in the woollen industry,
went to Berlin to plead the case Of his
French rivals. He was received codly and
told that the order was founded upon set
tied policy and could not be changed The
work was begun; many looms were taken,
but the removal not complete when the
Germans had to evacuate the three cities
"The Germans employed great staff Of
workmen to carry away everything that
they wanted When they were asked for
requlsition notes they said that they
wanted the machinery only for old iron,
and new machinery was accordingly valued
at the price of old iron The lootng was
supervised by a certain Herr Haas, of
German firm which specialized in the re-
moval of machinery. But when everything
was taken that could be taken the work
of wreckage began; and when they had
finished their work nothing was left but
the bare walls of the factory
'ln the Loos factory, in which some of
the machinery was left, the Germans
placed 100 mines, but in the hurry of
evacuation neglected to fire them. When
] was in Lille British engineers had
already removed seventy of these mines
and hoped to get them all without disaster
In the Wattrelos factory they took away
all lead. copper and brass, and then set
the whole place fire; but the manage
ment succeeded in putting out the fire be-
fore the factory totally destroyed NJ
Kuhlmann had fourth factory near Ghent
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rats are large, sleek, and numerous; one
shuddcrs to think how they live, and they
are certain to become n formidable pest TO
the neighboring regions when the empty
trenches and battlchclds will no longer
"lt is in the occupied districts that we
see the clcarcst evidence Of the German
economic war. At Levin, behind Lens, at
Courrieres, and in the coal fields of the
Nord, without any military necessity they
blew up with dynamite all the pithcad
pumps, engines, and machinery. In sew
eral | examined, every iron girder support
ing the elaborate structure above the pit
mouth had been separately broken by a
charge of dynamite, and at point near
Lens they had turned the River Souchez
into the underground workings Thus the
source of power of French industry was
put out of working I am told that it will
take at least five years before they can be
put in anything like order again, and that
the French cannot even begin to get coal
from them for eighteen months.
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allies outside Germany" The writer
predicts that this "ideology' will
"spread division among the foes of
Germany, first of all among the Czechs,
Poles, Italians and Jugo-Slavs," and sug-
gests that if the Germans are not un-
grateful they will erect a statue to
President Wilson in the Wilhelmstrasse
The second ally is held by Won Kuhl-
mann to be 'the delightful frivolity of
the French, our good neghbors, who.
as was only to be expected, do not see
anything to-day beyond recovering
Alsace-Lorraine." He points out that
Sin their satisfaction they overlook all
that is happening in the East; make
light of the infiltrations of Bolshevism,
which have become noticeable else
where Oong live Longuet, Loriot, Sa-
doul and their friendsD abandon to
their fate those Poles who could so
easily have been supported one month
ago, and do not speak any more Of put
ting under rigid control our works, our
rehabilitation and our RAILWAYS. as
claimed by Foch at the time of the
armistce."
The ordinary ways of French di-
plomacy, which will pretend to be di-
recting everything from Paris" is cited
as the third ally. And one reads:
Committees will be appointed by the
dozen, which ne fcheront ricn (French
words in the text, and fiery speeches will
be pronounced Everything in the way of
energetic decisions will BIZ postponed till
the following day. In the mean time the
Bolshevik food will rise and the Polish
kumanian barrier will crumble down. In
order to obviatc it, Committees Of inquiries
w''i be dispatched 10 Princes Island.
frencn diplomacy, slow and lovely as il s-~-
want 70 emphasize it's the best ally Of
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at the blows Of the axe upon her last tene-
ment Faith and death alike are above the
impotent spite Of mortas.
But who shall estimate the suffering
and the injury caused to the present and
the future of a nation by the destruction
of its industries? For what is industry
but human hive in which busy genera
tions of workers live nd thrive? 1t is
warmth, food, and home to them; the cause
Of their existence the inheritance Of their
childrer their aptitudes are shaped by it;
with it they are Of service in their world;
without it they are pitiful, helpful naked
objects of charity. And not only is it the
life OF the actual workers; it is the stay
and support Of the district and indeed, of
the nation.
The centre of production is the foun-
tain of life Industry gives to nation its
right to exist and its place in the world.
Industry is the will and strength Of ma
ton, which is not only clothed and fed but
protected by its products. If a nation can
not arm its own soldiers and fight with its
own steel it IS upon the way of defeat and
cnslavement. Organized industry is the ma
tlonal will, energy independence. France
without its vigorous north and northeast
would be weak and helpless country, rich
in corn, wine, and oil, but unable to arm
itself against the assaults Of the invader
or take any but aborer's share in the life
of the world
"1f we looked at France before the war
what should we find? On the south belt
of flowers and olives, then great plains of
wine and wheat, with industrial islands here
and there, in the valley Of the Rhone, in
Savoy, and in the Pyrenees, where l'huile
blanche, electricity from water driven tur-
blnes, gives motor power, or near an isolated
coal deposit as at st. Etienne, famous for
its ribbons What natural cause or inherit
ed aptitude fixed the supremacy of the silk
industry at Lyons ! do not know; nor do I
know why Paris should be--as she is-a
great metallurgical centre; but it is certain
that Bourges, the Woolwich Of France. was
placed behind the Loire because the French
were determined not to be bereft Of the
power to make weapons Of defence bv such
another surprise as the invasion Of 1870.
Creusot also was far from the frontier.
possibly for the same reason.
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Shattered Romance

"What shall | say OF the mirror works
Of st. Goban? They spoke TO us Of old
France. of the gltterng days Of the
Grand Monarque. How many salons haw
they frightened and multiplied into VISTA
of splendori To how many ladies hsu
they whispered, you are beautiful,' Ant
to how many also have they sighed, 'Yot
are old.' They are part of the great tradi-
ton of French domestic art They had
grown and hourished through $50 years.
the old regime, the republic the empire,
had all admired itself in the mirrors OF
St. Gobain. I visited one of the factories
1t only a confused mass Of tortured
and twisted machinery. Tall chimneys had
been broken like carrots and had crushed
the buildings below. Great rolling tables
Of steel and glass had been broken with
hammers; caldrons and retorts, boilers
and furnaces had been blown up with dyna-
mite
This. then, is what the Germans have
done to France. They have destroyed her
means of livelihood. or as much of it as
they could reach. 1t is if they had
taken a workman and gouged out his eyes
or cut off his thumbs. They have struck
not only at the present but at the future
of France, and it was a deliberate blow
intended to put France out Of industrial
action"
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What the Wish Fathers

The question is not whether accounts
like this represent the true situation in
France. The significant fact is that the
Germans are pinning their faith to
them. The same tendency to let the
wish father the thought is recognizable
in the following paragraph, published
by the "Berliner Neueste Nachrichten"
as part of a correspondence from the
area occupied by the Allies:
"ln his relations to the British the
American manifests a conspicuous reserve.
His attitude toward the French is almost
hostile. Gallo arrogance angers him. con-
scious as he is of the fact that without
American assistance the French would not
be or the Rhine to-day No American
grudges the French territorial gains in the
Rhine country, and only a few of them trv
to conceal their antipathy toward the allv~
in-arms."
This is just one example of the many
where German publicists ATTEMPT to
exploit reported disagreement among
the Allies for the purposes of domestic
morale. At the same time. passages
like this may furnish an additional KEY
to the secret of remarkable kindhness
shown, in the beginning, at least, by the
population of occupied districts to
American troops.
On the other hand, there is in the
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Pas-de-Calais

"Ihe modern industrial system Of France
had its centre and its chief reason Of be-
ing in the coal fields Of the Pas-de- Calais
and the Department du Nord. Compared
with the coal measures of Germany and
England these fields were small. But mono
the less they were fourishing and progress
slve. In 1911 the Pas de- Calais produced
19,500000 tons; in 1912, 81 900 900 tons; in
1872 the Departement du Nord produced r.
900 tons, also a considerable increase
over the previous year. These coal fields
had their metropolis at Lens-before the
war not grlmy like our coal mining centres,
but pleasant garden city. and distributed
their coal by a system Of granite paved
roads, canals, and railways among the sur
rounding industrial towns. These coal fields.
then, determined the situation of the French
industrial system, for it is cheaper to bring
raw material to power than power to raw
material. And it came about that three
quarters of the industries of France Law in
the track of the invader. Those which Law
to the east had their protection in the Ar
dennes and the fortress crowned heights of
the Meuse; but the greatest group Of all
Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcong-lay open to
the invader save for the rotten bulwark of
a treaty of neutrality
Lille, the queen Of these cities of tho
north, was famous over the world for it's
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False Signs

Besides the possibility of driving a
wedge into the body of the Entente, the
after-war weakness of France seems to
be the greatest hope of German pub
licists The "Berliner Neueste Mach
rlchten," an ultra conservative organ. in
its issue for March 13 goes as far as to
discover "signs of revolution" on the
French horizon. 1t quotes a German
resident of Paris" who, apparently
through neutral Intermediary. COM
municates the following:
NJ PIchon, the French Foreign Minister.
IS having bad time these days. He
glances anxiously toward the East. where
herman bolshevism also called Spartacism.
is rising on the Rhine, under the guidance
OF Russian agents. On the Boulevard
Malesherbes they are dissatisfied with tb.
war adventure. The fnanciers have poured
%'o'ooo'ooo'ooo into Russia, in order to help
hrmaments against Germany r, be sure.
the bolshevists declared recently their will
ingness to pay their debt, but thew are on.
ing on with their preparations for the nd
vance westward One thing is certain. Tho
boishevists are laying new snare into
which the French politicians will tumble
In lie HAvre the French have had plenty OF
opportunity to get acquainted with the Bel
glans, many of whom are Bolsheviki. These
things ought to ruf'e French assurances.
as many OF her soldiers and workers will he
caught in this wave Of Bolshcvsm. what
VIII become Of the wonderful dreams Of
French victory?' lie Steele walls. Where
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German papers counsel Of caution
against undue optimism An editorial
IN another issue of the "Berliner
Neueste Nachrichten" is headlined:
Beware of Illusions" 1t rdicules the
unreasoning confidence of many Ger
mans in catchwords like world revolu-
ton" German public opinion, the ar
ticle says, has forced itself to believe
that the Allies will get scare lest
Bolshevism, gaining foothold in Ger
many, will spread into Entente coun-
tries. If the Germans have thought
that by playing up the bogey of Bo-
shevsm they will hoax the Allies into
leniency, events show that they were
utterly mistaken.
The chief interest of this article lies
in the implied admission that the Ger
mans have deliberately employed the
Bolshevik spectre for the purpose OF
propaganda in Allied countries pos
sibility pointed out by not a few Amer
lean, British and French newspapers.
The proposed constitution Of the
league of nations has certainly disap-
pointed the majority of German pub
lcists. On the other hand, some of them
true to the precepts of "Realpolitlk,
exert themselves to make the most OF
what they admit is rotten situation
and are on the alert for the slightest
chance to drive wedge into the anti
German combination. Thus Professor
Lujo Brentano, one of the leading
German economists, seizes upon tne
question of free trade and tries 10
prove that the Wilsonian programme
includes the breaking down of COM
mercial barriers among the nations. IN
an article published in the "Berl'nef
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lister of defence, Socialist, by the name
of Noske or something to that effect. He
won't have anything to do with the Inter
rationale and has declared the other day
that he was first of all German and only
in the second place an international So
cialist. In the mean time French
masses are In state of fermentation
France is not under blockade like the Cen
tral Powers, but profteering is even worse
than there and the government is merely
looking on -"
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Hun System

For my part, ! visited a good many, not
only in Lille, but in Tourcong, Roubaix
and other cities of Northern France, and |
left with no illusions as to the war after
the war. In the four years Of German oc-
cupatoD the Germans left nothing undone
to make France not only unable to com
exist without them.
I'VE have heard great deal about the
plans and the thoroughness Of the German
General staff; but there was another gen
ersl staff, of which we have heard less
which also had plans and was also thor
ough. It was the service OF economic de-
structon, which is said to have had it's
headquarters at Metz, and consisted of in
dustrial magnates, fnanciers, and even
for the Germans neglect no precauton--
international lawyers Some day the full
story of this German state organization
may be told; in the mean time | can only
say that | saw everywhere evidence Of the
system upon which it worked and the thor
oughness with which it carried out it's pol
icy. There is sort of doubt that the
destruction of the industries of Northern
France was systematic and was designed to
destroy france as competing industrial
power.
The French are sentimental people l
was taken to St. Quentin Cathedral to see
the holes cut in the great stone columns
as inches for the Prussian sant-a stick
OF dynamite | was taken down into dismal
crypts by the light of guttering candle
TO see the violated coffin of a nun long dead
broken open in the search for loot. These
are picturesque relics of barbarsm; but l
found out for myself ruins which were
sadder and outrages more cruel The ruins
of cathedral the ruins of the past: the
dead nun did not shrink within her shroud
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kk HAVE lost the war;
wv now let's win the peace"
In this phrase Germany's
foreign policy during the
last few months may be summed IN.
by propaganda and intimidation, by
bluff and cajolery, by exploiting senti-
mentaiism and creating dissension in
tne enemy camp, the agents of GERMANY
- Germans and non Germans wera
untlring to secure as much as possible
OF the advantages that seemed ire
trievably lost on November / last. Tho
irres1ution and procrastinaton at Paris
wniie vociferously resented by portion
OF the German press, were actually
serving Germanys purpose, as was the
boishevistic bogey. At this moment it
would appear that the bill that will be
presented by the Allies to Germany is
taxing definite shape at last; but while
the peace treaty, as framed by the
council Of four, may presently thwart
Germany's immediate designs and pur-
poses, German after-war psychology re-
mains thing to be studied, the changed
circumstances notwithstanding.
a characteristic piece Of this German
after-war psychology is a letter by DR..
Richard Won Kuhlmann, the former
Liberal" Foreign Secretary Of Ger
many, to German notable. "a pub.
hshed BY "The London Daily Tele-
graph The letter, which in some wav
or other was secured by the Paris cor
respondent Of the English newspaper.
declares that Germany has gained three
new allies, who will reinforce our
friends the Ukrainians and Bolsheviki. y
The first of the three is "thc ideolopv
oY President Wilgon, which wonderfully
helps US in our game, and helps the
Boisheviki TOO, who are our present
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Reason Why France Stands Firm for Indemnities
Northern France Has Paid the Bit.
ter Price of Hun
Invasion

~ NE OF the issues upon which
President Wilson has been dis
" agreeing most strenuously with
the other representatives of the
big Four" concerns indemnities In
this connection he has encountered the
unf1inching opposition of Premier Gle
menceau, who insists that Germany must
pay France for the damage she has done.
French industry in Northern France has
been brought practically to a standstill
This fact has been shown by many
writer's; but perhaps no one has painted
more comprehensive picture than that
which appears in The National Re-
view" tLondon). over the signature of
Ian d. Colvin, who made careful first
hand inspection. He chooses as a head
for his article the significant line,
Things President Wilson Ought to See
He began his tour of investigation at
the Etablissement Kihlmann, at Lille,
where one of the directors told him how
the Germans had tried to force the firm
to work in their service. It seems that
'the firm refused, and the great factory
was presently visited by an expert who
chose all that the German chemical indus
try wanted; it was packed up and sent
away and then a gang of ruffians descend
ed upon the place and reduced what was
left TO q shapeess mass of shattered ma
chinery. All that was left of the Madeleine
factory, one of the biggest of its kind in
Europe-covering twenty five hectares of
ground-were the bare walls Then this
business man of Lille made little gesture
he spoke with that fine restraint and dig
nifty which they have in the north of
France: If he said. president Wilson
would only visit our factory
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The Other Side of the Desert

Lille, Tourcoing, and RoubaX are upon
the other side of the desert, and at first
sight they cheer and comfort the pilgrim.
After ALL you say to yourself, they are not
in ruins You look closer. There is some
thing strange about the people; their faces
are yellow as with jaundice; they move
furtively; they are like population of
caretakers. They have nothing to do
and perhaps it is as we'll, for it is evident
that they have no strength. A woman
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linen, its Isle thread, its bleaching, its
chemicals and its heavy engineering
Tourcoing and Roubaix we're great centres
OF the woollen and cotton manufacture, both
spinning and weaving. Az the French Of
the north drink beer more than wine, there
were many brewcries; and as the sugar beet
was largely cultivated in the north, sugar
refining WAS nlso an important induairN
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regions have been destroyed during the war
On the other hand, the Boches might get
their house in order, if they only had a
Napoleon. To be sure, they have a min
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the German Empire, which will be reestab-
lished again more quickly than is generally
believed. B0ow was right when he re-
peated, time after time, to Ebert on De-
cember "a, AS soon as Foch shall have
ceased to give his orders we shall get into
our hands, little by little, all the trump
cards again
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is the future of unity and cordiality, of the
working together of all hands for the veal
of the country? Our Parliament is pre-
pairing for the surrender (to Bolshe vism)
like the German Assembly. But France
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A Cross-Section Of the German After-War P

esXX7e HAVE lost the war;
w now let's win the peace"
In this phrase Germanv's
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Continued on page three
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\ NE OF the issues upon which
= President Wilson has been dis
agreeing most strenuously with
the other representatives of the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-15
KALEY CIVIC CENTER
TO OPEN YEARS WORK

civic and community activities for
the year will open this week at the
Haley school The following gym
nasium classes will be conducted up
on the demand of 20 persons; a
class for girls above 16 years of age
on Monday night from Z TO O'Clock
TO be conducted by Miss Irene
Thompson; on Tuesday night from
TO 9 o'clock a class for senior boys
over 16 years of age. directed by
Joseph LaFortune; on Thursday af-
ternoon Miss Kathryn Gillespie viii!
conduct a class for junior girls, be-
tween the ages Of u and 1e years
ipclusiye, fFPm S:4P TO s:45 o'clock;
Joseph LaFortune viii have charge
of a class of junior boys who are
o meet on Thursday night from Z
to o'clock
ON alternate Friday nights motion
pictures Will be shown or a COM
munity center meeting will be held.
All activities, with the exception of
the motion pictures. will be free of
charge. 4 charge of five cents will
be made for the pictures.
The activit.ss of the Kaley district
are in charge of David Heinzelman,
the social center secretary.