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Show L' IEUTENANT MAURICE J BOYEE. who addressed business t;jmcn at Commercial club yesterday, j j ! - ' , u -i I ! v J i I v s 1 v v " 4 ' I Vi ! i ' v ! 1 i l 1 " ' ! J : W 0S . x I v I : r ; x v v v yx : ' f 'v s " 1 x . . i t - TELLS OP HUN PLAN TO DESTROY FRANCE French High Official Says Country Is Rapidly Being Be-ing Rehabilitated. ""When Germany crushes France, France will be left nothing but her eyes with which to weep." This was the slogan uttered, by Germans Ger-mans in authority when victory for the central powers seemed certain and the Germans were already preparl j to divide di-vide their spoils of war, according to Lieutenant Maurice Boyer, of th French high commission, in his address yesterday before members of the Commercial Com-mercial club and the Manufacturers' Association As-sociation of Uta.h at the Commercial club. "Germany not only scientifically planned to destroy France, economically ay well as physically, and to eliminate all attempt of trade competition after the war, but also began carrying out these plans by stealing and destroying millions of dollars' worth of machinery and removing the best of it to Germany," added Lieutenant Boyer. "But Germany will not keep this priceless price-less machinery, which would take years to replace, for France is alrea.dy sending send-ing experts into the Hun country to locate lo-cate and ship it back. It will take time and untold energy to reinstall it in France ( for turning- out products, but France is plunging into the work of reconstruction re-construction jut-t as enthusiastically and as bravely as she entered the war." Lieutenant Boyer said that the people of the devastated regions of France were a t present suffering more from lack of food than the Germans, and that every effort should be made to feed them first. He said that the destruction of the railroads rail-roads in this section made it impossible to get food there quickly and abundantly and at times it has been necessary to send provisions by airplane to prevent etarvation. Figures were read by the officer' showing show-ing that the Germans wantonly destroyed more than 30,000 mills, whose destruction was unnecessary in the methods of warfare. war-fare. Coal mines were flooded, the machinery ma-chinery destroyed beyond a)l hope of restoration, and the best of it carried into Germany for use. He sr id that tex-the tex-the machinery valued at 51 1 0,000 .000 was shipped across the Rhine with the hope in the German mind to prevent 1 'ra nee from becoming a trade rival in the textile tex-tile industry for years to come. The officer also explained how auickly France has begun her readjustment, and told of munition factories which are al -ready turning out much needed prod -ucts, instead of shells and explosives. France, he said, is preparing to manufacture manu-facture hundreds of products which were formerly monopolized by German:-, and the use of raw material will develop greatly the French colonier. Lieutenant Boyer completed hi? tnik by appealing to America to open almost unlimited credi' to France in her reconstruct re-construct ion. Without this, he said, France will he un.Tble to purchase material mate-rial and products from America.. |