Show I GERMAN INVADERS TAKE GOODS WORTH Textile Industry in Northern Northera North North- era ern em n France Suffers Crushing Blow v. PARIS May Ia 29 Three Three hundred million dollars lost b by the tho textile Industries in industries In- In of oC northern France in raw materials and manufactured products taken aken b by the Germans as ns boot booty of war war that that Is the estimate given tho the Associated Press by hy an authorized member member of or tho most Influential textile textile textile tex tex- tile corporation in France Fiance and an authority on industrial subjects What the total loss Including I damages to plant and to buildings s may amount to there are no IndicatIons Indications Indi Indi- for many rumors of oC the transferring of or valuable machines to Germany have hn not been confirmed The Tho above e estimate Is based on confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed facts only It more than lImn bears out th the p estimate of oC the tho German publicist pub pub- l. l Ludwig L who after I a i I visit it to the German front told the that the war boot booty sent from northern France to Germany German In the form of ot cereals sugar metals wool leather etc amounted to o fl hundred million million million mil mil- lion dollars dollar during the first six I I I I I 1 1 I I I J I u I i I I I I I I I I months of oC the war war It is supposed that his figures were based on th the e I requisition price said to bo he vcr very In Inferior inferior In- In to the market value On th the e latter basis tho the actual total would be he far In excess of oC tho the German ilI figures figures fig il- ures the e for forthe the textile in industries in- in alone would would so so indicate I ISO Took Raw Materials It Is known that the Germans took I nearl nearly all the raw material and finished fin fin- goods in the great woolen manufacturing manufacturing man man- centers of Le Co Coteau telU 1 I and Tourcoing where hEro America AmerS Amer- Amer I Amer-I S ica iea buys hurs heavily ha of oC the finer woolen i r fabrics They also 0 emptied the linen factories with the exception of those I at al where they thy were wre I driven n back ack too soon and at Lille whore where th they y have ha recently begun to I requisition these products The tc territory occupied b by tho the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans contains more than 80 SO per pcr cent of the woolen and linen In Industries of ot France the tho is a n shortage shortage short short- a age c of all these o products The Tho arm armIs Is IR sel seeking hundreds of t I thousands of ot canvas J for tents that these the e industries are art unable to tn supply Cotton tried as asa asa asa a substitute proved probed unsatisfactory May Call Cali Upon America The financial problem resulting from Crom this state of things thinS's according to this authority will require most serious stud study after the war A commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial and Industrial activity such as w we have ha never seen been will be witnessed wit wit- witnessed In France hut but the setting in motion a again ain the industrial machine will be attended with great ties One manufacturer in the occupied occupied pied territory has lost raw material land and finished goods oo s to the value of five million to ten million francs The Theu banks had advanced him a a. ha half million million mil mil- lion francs The security for Cor that advance ance is gone That man will say zay after the I 1 war wal am not played outI out I want to put my m industry on Its feet reel again hut hurt where will he find Ithe the means mans since ho he has alrea already hanging over o him a debt of half a million francs and the goods g that se secured secured secured se- se cured It JL arc are In Germany German It is a as s serious rIous pro problem lem but lut It will be solved sol Another great groat rat difficulty is if In the restoration of our plants the tho replacing ing of nf our machines Under existing conditions it seems likely that It will tako take two Iwo years earn for machine constructors tors to furnish what we shall require Perhaps we shall have to to call upon the American Ingenuity lity to help us in working out tho the difficult problems but hut thc they will be solved for Cor never ne was the spirit of oC our manufacturers and workers so strong strone as |