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Show LAND LOST WAS GROWING CROPS LONDON, April 14 (Correspondence) (Correspond-ence) Serious loss resulted from the great battle in France is the ruin of great areas of land behind the old J British lines, which were under cultivation culti-vation by the army. Tho British and Franco food production departments were carrying out on a large scale a scheme for growing vegetables behind the lines for the use of the soldiers. Tho last official ligure of the land cultivated in this way in the zone of tho British army was 50,000 acres, al though in recent months tho figure hns been much Increased. A great deal of now work had been done in the noiphborhoud of Pronne. and at Ham, Ephoy and near Chauny. All thu land had been ploughed with American traitor ploughs and a great deal of It planted with potatoes. Another work which has been lost is that begun by the Quakers to succor the victims of the war in the territories territor-ies won back from the Germans a year ago. The Quakers had a large farm near Ham which was their general headquarters, from which they were pi-ndinq out automobile tractors to plough land, were helping the returned peasants to restore their market-gar dens, and were providing them with goats to replace the cattle takn by the enemy This work will probably have to be' abandoned until the war ends. |