RESTORATION OF FRANCE
BRITISHAGRICTJLTTJRAL UNITS AT WORK. (AcstraHaa and N.Z. CabU Association^) • PARIS, May 18. Le Temps' correspondent on the British front says each British army has 500 agricultural workers supervised byofficers who were agriculturalists before tjifl war. They are cleaning the battered ground with special machines from England, thus helping to increase France's food production. FRENCH APPRECIATION. (Auctr&lian and N.Z. Oahl« Association.) PARIS, May 19. The people greatly appreciate the British help in restoring agriculture in the liberated territory. Already 100,000 acres in the. Somme Department are under cultivation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 6
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