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Show FRANCE HOPES TO j REBUILD RAILWAYS I PARIS. Nov 4. (By The Associated Associat-ed Press) Trains operated by elec- trie power on the pre-war schedule time, or faster, and offering to the i traveling public three classes of slee-p- lug cars are prov ided for In the gOV- I ernment's program for rehabilitation I of the railroads so thoroughly disorganised dis-organised by the war Second and third class sleepers, ' with three tiers of bunko are already 1 in service to a limited extent as an experiment, and .electrification of the lines has been ceremoniously Inaugu-urated Inaugu-urated between Tarbes and Loudres. The first small stretch will not be I opened to the public-, however, for ! some time The ceremony consisted ; In the operation of th- first electric : locomotive built In France, The electrification program calls I for operation of a 200-mile stretch j by next summer and for the uttl-mate uttl-mate operation of six thousand miles when France's undeveloped water-: power Is finally harnessed. |