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rapidly. One Is near Havre. another at
Bordeaux. and the third on the Medi-
terranean near Marseilles. The yards
are equipped. with other yards we have.
to turn out passenger and freight steam
ships OF the most modern pattern. AS
you possibly know. the great French
passenger steamship Paris was partly
completed when the war began. Work
on her was suspended In the face of
more pressing necessities but now the
shipwrights are busy again and she will
be ready to go Off the ways next spring.
Will buy German Materials.
France in her general scheme of re-
| building and progress will not stand on
the formality presented by having to
deal with the Germans. We need some
of the coal and iron ore which Ger
many has and will be glad 60 sell. We
shall buy II and use it. We expect that
arrangements for an exchange of GER
tain products that Germany has will be
necessary in the near future. We will
make the arrangements without heslta-
ton. France has determined to go for
ward. What Germany will do is Ger
many's own affair.
so you will see then that of neces-
sity great France will arise from the
ueSpOlieu anu battered france winch re-
manned after more than four years OF
war. The determination to go forward
and on Is apparent wherever one travels
In the country. What France learned
from disaster was learned thoroughly.
The future France win be a France
which win excel her greatest traditions
of the past.
And of course in this calculation Il
is easy to see the bonds of comrade-
ship and understanding which must in
crease between my country ana the
United States Science and mechanics
have annihilated distance. france and
America are close neighbors now. and
/ in addition to the triumphs of science
and engineering which have made the
ocean so narrow they are close bound
also in the principles of democracy and
equity which underlie the governments
of them both"
Mr. Schneider Is the grandson of the
Joseph Eugene Schneider WHO founded
the family industry at lie Creusot early
in the last century. beginning the family
fortunes and fame by purchasing the
old royal iron toundries, which had
been built at lie Creusot In 1882 under
the patronage of Louis XVI. The foun-
dries have furnished the cannon for
Eugene was a Minister of France and
president Of the legislative corps Of Ma
poleon Ill and a member of the En-
perors privy council He was succeeded
by his son Henri. the father of the
present head OF the company.
schneiders True Patriots.
Certain captains OF industry and en-
cheering who in the present war were
~
their sons were needed at the business
of production rather than at the fight
ing front may take lesson from the
record of the Schneiders of the present
generation. The Eugene Schneider who
is In this country now had three sons
of military age when France was at
| tackled They were all In the iron and
| steel trade with their father and pos
| sessed specla! knowledge which might
have made them as valuable in the gun
works as with regiments. But they
all went to war and all sought the most
dangerous branch of military service.
choosing to do their hghting~.in the
| air.
One OF them, Henri Paul, after he
had already earned the Cross of the
Legion of Honor and the Croix de
| Guerre, was killed in an air fight II.
February in 1918. The two others.
Charles ana Jean, both survived the
war and both returned home wearing
! decorat .ons of valor.
| At the beginning of hostilities in 1914
the Schneider company on account of its
extensive experience in metallurgy and
in artillery making was one OF the
great bulwarks of France. II was the
foremost producer of steel in Europe,
and the leading manufacturer of the
materials which became SO vital as
war progressed. 1t had its whole
energies to an increase OF war mate
rails and munitions and at the end
of 1917 its output OF steel for guns
was 1000 per cent greater than dur
ing the first year of the war.
At the beginning OF 1915 believing
that II would be possible to utilize for
national defence a part of the enormous
capacity of the various. American steel
plants the company sent It's engineers
here and introduced its methods and
secrets
1t sent its emissaries to England also
and into Russia and Italy. All through
the war It's experts were In charge OF
steel and shell making in the various
countries allied with France and its
secrets. long the especial property of the
company and the French Government,
are now the property Of all who fought
against Germany.