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Show t Northern France is ! Being Regenerated LILLE, Feb. 9 Perceptible progress toward the regeneration of northern France is shown in reports just made public here. From February 1 to December De-cember 1. 1919, 1,250,000,000 francs was advanced to manufacturers and nearly 2,000,000,000 francs will be paid as compensation for war damages. Seed costing 1,200.000 francs and fer-' fer-' tllizers worth 22.000.ooo were bought j for farmers, who. in addition received 18,000 head or horses. nn |