HUGE COST OF WAR TO FRANCE
PARIS, August 27. The cost of the war to France, was £24,485,000,000 or 45 per cent, of the national wealth, said M. Pierre Tietgen, in a speech. The Minister estimated that the war destroyed nearly 2,000,000 houses, 5000 bridges, half of France’s railway stations, and 350 railway coaches. France lost half her live stock and three-quarters of her agricultural machinery.
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Southland Times, Issue 25763, 29 August 1945, Page 5
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