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Show Germany Waits for U S. to Ratify Treaty I HUNS TO i FRANCE I German Commission J Says Destruction of tej1 Mines Is "Terrible." I YEARS TO RESTORE j Says Task Will Furnish j Work for Every Idle i Man in Europe. BRUSSELS. Wednesday. Nov. 5. (French Wireless Services) Copies cf the legal evidence upon which the surrender of 1.200 Germans Ger-mans would be asked, so thai they VJ. may s'a.id trial for offenses committed com-mitted in Belgium during the war. have been forwarded to the peace conference. The indictments are principally based upon the execution execu-tion of Belgian civilians at Lou-vin Lou-vin and other towns, upon the deportations de-portations of Belgian workmen up c,i the forced labor exacted from prisoners of war, upon the treatment treat-ment of young men who attempted to cross the "frontier to join the Belgian armies and upon instances of pillage. i 4 BERLIN, Nov. I. (By tbe ASSOC at led Press.) Work for ail Ihe unem- r ployment n Germany for the next 'eight years will be provided in restoring restor-ing the ruined mines in northern France, says Vorwaerts This opinion Is based on the report from the Or- " man mining commission sent to Frence recently to ascertain the ext of the damage ;md which has UBl made public its findings. ' The task." says the newspaper, "Is so great that it is sufficient to furc'sh work for every idle man inJDurope nnd toi i v ryone else engaged in superfluous superflu-ous labor. The report shows ihe fair lacy Of the theory hat emigraion of 10,000.000 to 15,000.-K0 persons from Germany is an economic necessity'' The commission in its report said the work of reconstruction would have to be done "from the ground up " Tbe 'destruction a as pronounced "Lrrible." I Most of the mines have b en ' drowned," it was said, and in lebuLd ing new shafts they would have to be protected against ihe Inward pressure oi water. The Germans declare d it was not easy to fix responsibility for the destruction as it waa done by nuzner-ous nuzner-ous groups and occurred where each military unit was located ?ud what period pe-riod were neither :omplete noi avail able. Mr |