FRANCE’S RUINED AGRICULTURE.
DESTRUCTION IN THE \\ All ZONE. BRITISH COMMITTEICS REPORT. (Times and Svdncv Sun Services.) * LONDON, Aug. 9. Some British memuers of the Allies - Committee of Agricultural Relief have returned from a visit to the rumen districts of Eranoo. Ihev state that* it is impossible- to exaggerate the extent of the. destruction, in tin* valley.-: <u the Marne and the Meuse. The Germans shelled and fired many places wholesale. Many villages are without a sign of life, the people remaining and living underground. Cultivation is still carried on by Trench women, who. are loading carts, and cultivating land within a iew kilo-metres-of the trenches, working uncomplainingly in the midst of de.'Olation and ruin. The whole valley ol the Marne is under cultivation. The people of England are generously responding to the committee g. appeal for stud cattle and other stock. The King headed the list with hvo rams from the famous Cam! rmg ham Hock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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156FRANCE’S RUINED AGRICULTURE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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