Show Belg un s Reco Recovery very THE amazing progress that Belgium h has hs s made since L the great war to towards economic recovery is js stated in n n a pamphlet issued by the Guaranty Trust Company of Kew cw York It will be remembered the Germans destroyed a third of 0 the Belgian factories over o 1300 miles of railway and 1400 1400 bridges and carried away an all enormous amount of or ma machinery At the present time Belgian factories arc are pr producing on an au average about three-fourths three as much muchas muchas' as' as as he before fora the war her railroads are arc operating 80 per percent cent cent tf f the normal number of 01 freight trains and GO 60 per cent of the tho normal number of passenger trains Although the theatre of 01 the war for many months months m m suffered comparatively little since only 1 per gent veit of the total area was as seriously devastated so that last Jast year b by intensified production with government encouragement agricultural production in general surpassed surpassed sur sur- passed ed the average prewar years Coal mines were ere not nol destroyed ed by ly the Germans although The machmer machinery de de- de- de predated This comparatively small handicap has lias been so o.- o. in the first three m months of this year yearth J th b output of f c coal al exceeded the thc prewar production p per per- percent cent BI Blast st furna furnaces es that were destroyed b by the i Germans have hav been rebuilt more than half of the machinery ma- ma chinery hiI ery that was removed has been recovered and the rail mil are arc producing about 40 per cent of their pre pre- I 1 War ar output By January 1 1920 all except fifteen miles of the destroyed tr had d been restored and either permanent or temporary structures had replaced tl the h d a destroyed bridges Belgium ports Antwerp in particular par par- t cular are are re beginning to resume their important place in n world orld trade Now as before the war Belgium ranks fifth among the nations as a market for United States exports As with men so with nations you ou cant can't keep down a good one |