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FIVE YEARS' WORK IN THE DEVASTATED REGIONSSource: Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 86, No. 12 (DECEMBER, 1924), p. 663Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20660773 .

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1924 WORLD PROBLEMS IN REVIEW 663

ternational, came to him for advice, and the

whole central committee agreed that his

views were to be put in practice without

further debate. When this became impos

sible, Lenin's guidance had to be replaced by

that of a collective body.

The C. I. is, in effect, a department of the Moscow Administration, under the

charge of Zinoviev, and its importance makes him a very influential member of the party. The apparent separation en ables the Moscow Government to speak with two voices; one makes promises to

foreign governments, while the other is sues orders in an opposite sense to revolu

tionary parties in other countries.

FIVE YEARS' WORK IN THE DEVASTATED REGIONS

THE

latest figures concerning recon struction in the devastated regions of

France have just been published. They give a good idea of what has been accom

plished there during the last five years. Plants, Manufactures, and Workshops:

To be reconstructed at the time of the armistice: 22,900.

Rebuilt: January, 1921, 18,091; Janu

ary, 1922, 19,442; January, 1923, 20,150; January, 1924, 20,872.

Dwellings: To be reconstructed, 741, 933.

Bebuilt: January, 1921, 278,834; Janu

ary, 1922, 355,479; January, 1923, 575, 533; January, 1924, 605,989.

Population: Before the war, 4,690,183 ; Armistice, 2,075,067.

January, 1921, 3,288,152 ; January, 1922, 3,985,913; January, 1923, 4,074, 970 ; January, 1924, 4,253,677. Mines: Number of mines destroyed or

damaged, 200. In operation January, 1922, 106; Janu

ary, 1923, 123 ; January, 1924, 145.

Highways: Total to be rebuilt at the end of the war, 36,500 miles.

Bebuilt: January, 1921, 5,600 miles; January, 1922, 14,000 miles; January, 1923, 24,000 miles; January, 1924, 26,500

miles.

Bridges, Tunnels, etc.: Total to be re built at the end of the war, 6,125. Bebuilt : January, 1921, 2,653; January,

1922, 3,689; January, 1923, 4,707; Janu

ary, 1924, 4,800. Land under Cultivation: The work of

filling old trenches, of clearing barbed wires and destroying unexploded shells is

practically completed. At the time the Armistice was signed,

1,923,479 hectares (about 4,800,000 acres) of land had been rendered unfit for culti vation. The progress made in reclaiming that land is shown by the following figures :

January, 1921, 1,007,240 hectares (2, 600,000 acres) ; January, 1922, 1,474,796 hectares (3,700,000 acres); January, 1923, 1,763,769 hectares (4,400,000 acres) ; January, 1924, 1,788,755 hectares

(4,500,000 acres). Cattle: Pre-war number of oxen, 892,

338 ; horses, 407,888 ; sheep, 949,774; pigs, 356,610.

Oxen. Horses. Sheep Pigs. January, 1921:

129,975 95,695 118,738 3,561 January, 1924:

529,940 299,690 429,000 183,720

Financial E fort Made by France in Re construction: The total amount of damages to private properties was estimated by local commissions, after investigation on the

spot, at 82 billion francs. For reparation of those damages, France

has already disbursed 54 billion francs. Moreover, damages done to government

properties (highways, railroads, canals, bridges, etc.) amounting to 20 billion francs are now almost entirely repaired.

PAN-PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK

THE

first Pan-Pacific Food Conserva tion Congress, which came to its offi

cial close with Governor Wallace R. Far

rington's banquet, has placed the Pan Pacific Union ?n a firm basis as an organi zation interested in scientific research in conservation of natural resources, and in

co-operation among Pacific countries in all matters of interest to their peoples.

According to G. E. Allen, writing in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, one of the less

tangible, but nevertheless- important, achievements of the conference was the

bringing together from all over the Pacific

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