New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Artillery, Ammunition and
Motor Cars Alone Worth
l,43l, ,673,6l6 Francs,
Went to the United States
England Got 7l,7l3.644
Uncle Sam Also Supplied
With 10000 900 Shells
and $500 Airplanes

and her practical assistance to Amer
ica is told in q formal statement pre-
pared by Andre Tardeu, former
French High Commissioner to the
United States, and made public by John
Motfat, in behalf of the French
Heroes Fund, West Forty-fifth
Street. In giving out this official in
formation Mr.. Moffat, who has Just
returned from France. said that the
French Heroes Fund believed the
American people should know pre-
cisely what France had accomplished
and her material war services to
America in addition to her own heavy
burdens.
For this reason, and knowing that
France would not otherwise make
them public, the French Heroes Fund
applied to the French government for
tells eail HJr. Mon'at. From the
details furnished by Captain Tardieu
these lacts ar specially significant:
Stolen Goods Returned
"Out of 2,245 Kilometres of de-
stroyed railway lines France restored
2,028 kilometres by the end of Sep
tember Out of 1,160 bridges she re-
constructed 657. Out Of 1,075 kilo-
metres of canals 700 were made ready
for use at the end of August. Out Of
100000 tons of stolen industrial ma
teria recovered in Germany and Bel
gium 10000 have already been re
turned to their owners
In agriculture the figures are even
more striking. Out of 100000 hectares
OF land rendered useless through the
war, 100000 were in process of culti-
walton by September /; 200 600 had
been cleaned of projectiles; nearly
~ 100000 meters Of barbed wire en-
Engagements had been removed and 55.-
100000 meters of trenches had been
Instruments destroyed or removed
zoo GOO had been replaced The 3,220,-
goo horse in France in 1913 arc almost
entire y reestabli he'd and 200 600 head
OF cattle have been replaced out of
1,3oQ, 600
"out Of $4,000 houses destroyed or
damaged 10000 have been sufficiently
repaired to be utilized; more than
- coo huts have been erected and co.
oOO others are in process Of con true
ton BY September 30 1850 millions
been spent for the rebuilding Of various
destroyed industrial factories.
Materials Furnished Allies
The following figures indicate the
Prlnclpal articles of war materials
QulInE
to the different Allied countries:
"4.037393, ,897 francs. ARTILLERY. am
munltion and motor cars; machine
guns (2S,440), l1i,322 fraacs. fusi 5
mi5trailleurs (63 1922; l,472 ,035 francs,
riflts; l,J53,0i9 900 francs, cartridgcs;
l@02o0 francs, reviewers or automatic
pistolets; 14,570 francs, military We
ic IS; l8l025 francs -e~~ese. : go.
900 francs, gas masks; 1853 200 francs,
gas shells; 5000 tons of poisonous
ga. iHc! c!I'dirE $500 ms osee..c.
ne first item represents 24l1 field
artillery, l040 trench artillery. 235s
heayy cannon. 759 37-mm cannon.
From the figures furnished # is evi-
tent mat of al this material 7I.7l3.644
rancs worth of artillery ammunition
ana motor cars went TO England. 372.
,'z94 OF the same 10 italy, sos OPP
~ OF the same to Rumania, 1852.
go, l34 to Russia 10000 eco to Bel
gum, l,431, ,573,616 to the Unite,
:,tates' besides 6.520 machine guns an,
99'S'6 rifles to England, 81 900 rifles t
ltaly 298,0O0 rifles to Rumania. $50
Ooo rifles to Russia. The supplies in
GUIDED contributions also to Scribe
Greece, Poland, Czecho-S -Slovakia. por
tugal, Finland, Switzerland. Montene
gro, Sweden, Spain and Japan.
Captain Tardieu's figures show in
contestably, in the most material way
that France enabled the American arm
TO arrive for the battle of 1919 T
equip that army in time it was neccs
sary FOR France to furnish il with
large part Of its war materel, pa,
tlcularly artillery and ammunition L
10 the time of the armistice il fur
nished 3s34 guns, 10000 900 she'll,
$500 airplanes and 24O tanks, as we
as thousands of machine guns, fusil
mltralIleurs and machines Of all sort:
Enormous Tonnage Saved
France put at the disposition of III
American staff l 800 officers in Franc
and 800 in America, seventeen instruc
non camps, six artillery camps, forty
three barracks, thirty-tive billetin
l0nes, representing an area of IS rs
kilometres, 10000 hospital beds, 100 90
places Tor sick and wounded men an
800 trains 8 day. France furnished tn
A. +. +. 166,S8l horses, $4,000 quintau
o bread, 10000 qulntaux Of meat, 1850
400 quintaux Of potatoes, $4,000 quin
'auX Of vegetables, 10000 quintaux 0
coal, 500, ,0O0 quintaux of wood, 100
600 cubic meters of uncut wood, 45O
GOO qulntaNx Of forage and 19, 900 hectic
litres of gasoline.
All this represents mass an
weight of material which correspond
TO a saving Of 3,315,507 shipping ton
This figure shows its Importance
one remembers that the tonnage tran:
ported from America between Jun
1917, and May, 1918, was 2,156,22S tor
and between June, 1918, and Novembe
1913, 4,059,635 tons.
An official American report show
shat nearly half of the material use
by the American Expeditionary Force
until the time Of the armistice-nearl
1000. 900 tons-was furnished b
France. On the date of the armistie
the material in use by the America
army had been furnished by France (
the rate of 100 per cent Of the cannon
OF rs, the cannons of 155 short and tx
cars of assault; 81 per cent of II
avions'; 81 per cent Of the long cal
mons. The 65,Ooo,oOo shots of rs an
1855. used by the American artillery
1918, all came out of French factories
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