The Washington herald., 1920-02-01
FRANCE MAKES
LOSSES PUBLIC
Enonnity of Devastation
Given Out Through
Hero Fund.
GAVE MATERIAL AID
$1,120,0 900, 900 Worth Of
Supplies Furnished to
Allies.
GAVE MATERIAL AID

struct her shattered industries and
utilities to date. and the material
aid she gave the allies in the late
war. Is graphically told in a for
NAL statement issued by Andre
Tardieu. former French high COM
missioner to the United States. and
made public yesterday by John
Moffat of New York in behalf of
the French Heroes Fund.
In giving out this information.
Mr.. Moffat declared that the French
Heroes Fund believed the American
people should know precisely what
France did in the war in a ma
terial way. the burdens she bore
and the heroic fight she is now
making to bring her shattered ma
tion back to a peace-time basis.
For this reason, and knowing
that France would not otherwise
make them public. the French He
roes' Fund" Mr.. Moffat declared.
applied to the French government
I for details America, the fund felt,
should not remain ignorant of GER
FAR greater than We over here had
realized The French government
gladly furnished us the information.
From the details Capt. Tardieu. now
minister of the liberated regions.
has given US. these striking facts
and figures seem especially inter-
eating:
out of 2.245 kiIometers of de-
stroyed railway lines, France made
2.O2S kilometers ready for use by
the end of September. Out of 1.16O
bridges destroyed. she reconstructed
657. Out OF LOIS kilometers of
canals ruined. 700 were made ready
for use at the end of August And
$4,000 tons of stolen industrial ma
terial have been recovered in Ger
many and Belgium, 10000 having
already been given back to their
owners.
Tn agriculture. the figures are
even more extraordinary: 1.sO0, 900
hectares We're rendered useless
through the war; 4OO.O 900 of these
were in process of cultivation by
the first of September. 100000 had
been cleaned of projectiles of all
kinds. nearly 100000 of barbed
wire entanglements had been re-
moved and $4,000. 900 meters of
treT ches filed in. 100000 of the
100000 agricultural instruments de-
stroyed or removed have been re-
placed; the 3.220. 900 horses in France
in 1913 are almost entirely re-estab-
lished and 100000 head Of cattle
have been replaced out of 1.3OO,-
900.
These are but a few Of the
figures from the records of the
French government of what France
has done to build herself up. Out
of $4,000 houses destroyed or dam
aged. $4,000 have been sufficiently
repaired to be utilized. More than
$4,000 huts have been erected and
$4,000 others are in process of con-
struction. BY September 80. 1850
millions in money as well as in
ma teriaI had been spent for the
rebuilding 1f various destroyed in
dustr:a' factories"
''An the world knows" Mr.. Monat
said. that France made possible the
common victory in breaking. from
1914 to 1916. the first German shock.
But one knows less of what her in
dustry did for the allies, despite in
vasion.
'OficiaI figures show that France
furnished to her allies ammunition
and war materials totaling $50. .935.GOO
francs-or nearly 81, ,120.0O in Amer
lean money.
From the tables furnished. of
this material 71.713.644 francs
worth of artillery. ammunition and
motor cars went to England, 372.-
913.234 of the same to Italy, $685.
O22.926 of the same to Roumania,
1.252.626.134 to Russia. $50 900. 900 to
Belgium. 1.431.673.616 to the United
States. besides $500 machine guns
and 56,S76 rifles to England. $1,000
rifles to Italy. 29S.0OO rifles to Rou-
mania. $4,000 rifles to Russia. the
supplies including contributions
also to Serbia. Greece. Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia. Portugal, Finland.
Switzerland. Montenegro, Sweden,
Spain and Japan.
Nobody knows. I am sure, of the
supplies France gave to the coun-
tries that helped her at the same
moment she had her own prodigious
burdens to carry.
Now. here is something even more
interesting. I find. from the figures
Capt. Tardieu has furnished. that in
coEtestably. in the most material way
France enabled the American army to
arrive for the battle of 1g1S' America
knows what America did for France
but. as Capt. Tardieu says, it is more
difficult for the French. because of
the distance. to explain what France
did for the American army.
ITO equip that army in time, it was
necessary for France to furnish if
with large part of its. war material.
particularly its artillery and ammuni-
tion- France had furnished until the
time of the armistice; ASA guns
100000 shells. $500 airplanes, 30
tanks and thousands OF machine guns.
fusils. mitrailleurs and machines of
all sorts.
France put at 1.-THE disposition of
the American staff 1.50O officers in
France and 500 in America, her