Note 68 — Chapter IV
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The figures of damage done, given by M. Briand, are generally speaking rather lower than those given ten months earlier (in June 1920) in a report by M. Tardieu in his capacity as President of the Comité des Régions Dévastées. But the difference is not very material. For purposes of comparison, I give M. Tardieuʼs figures below together with those of the amount of reconstruction completed at that earlier date:
Destroyed. Repaired.
Houses totally destroyed 319,269 2,000
Houses partially destroyed 313,675 182,000
Railway lines 5,534 kilos. 4,042 kilos.
Canals 1,596 ” 784 ”
Roads 39,000 ” 7,548 ”
Bridges, embankments, etc. 4,785 ” 3,424 ”
Destroyed. Cleared from shells. Leveled. Plowed.
Arable land (hectares) 3,200,000 2,900,000 1,700,000 1,150,000
Destroyed. Reconstructed and working. Under reconstruction.
Factories and works 11,500 3,540 3,812
A much earlier estimate is that made by M. Dubois for the Budget Commission of the French Chamber and published as Parliamentary Paper No. 5432 of the Session of 1918.