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randum published a few days later, and represent theposition at about that date 1 :

(1) The population inhabiting the devastated dis-tricts in April 1921 was 4,100,000, as compared with4,700,000 in 1914.

(2) Of the cultivable land 95 per cent of the surfacehad been relevelled and 90 per cent had been ploughedand was producing crops.

(3) 293,733 houses were totally destroyed, inreplacement of which 132,000 provisional dwellingsof different kinds had been erected.

(4) 296,502 houses were partially destroyed, ofwhich 281,000 had been repaired.

(5) Fifty per cent of the factories were againworking.

1 The figures of damage done, given by M. Briand, are generally speakingrather lower than those given ten months earlier (in June 1920) in a report byM. Tardieu in his capacity as President of the Comite des Regions Devastees.But the difference is not very material. For purposes of comparison, I giveM. Tardieu's figures below together with those of the amount of reconstructioncompleted at that earlier date :

Houses totally destroyed .Houses partially destroyedRailway lines

Canals.....

Roads.....

Bridges, embankments, etc.

Destroyed. Bepaired.

319,269 2,000313,675 182,000

5,534 kilos. 4,042 kilos.

1,596 „ 784 „

39,000 „ 7,548 „

4,785 „ 3,424 „

Destroyed. ^^heUs™ 1 " Leve!led - Ploughed.

Arable land (hectares) 3,200,000 2,900,000 1,700,000 1,150,000

Twtrnumi Reconstructed Underueswoyeu.. and worlfing _ reconstruction.

Factories and works 11,500 3,540 3,812

A much earlier estimate is that made by M. Dubois for the BudgetCommission of the French Chamber and published as Parliamentary PaperNo. 5432 of the Session of 1918.