FRANCE FACES
SHORTAGE OF
LOCOMOTIVES
PARIS, Feb. 23 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—France, as a
result of the war, finds itself short of
3.000 locomotives and 100,f)00 cars,
while the transportation material that
is still nominally on the active list is
badly out of repair. The shortage of
rolling stock has become very acute
lately, for the number of locomotives
and cars out of commission for vari
outs defects has increased since July
last by 10 and 30 per cent respec
tively.
To meet the growing difficulties in
the matter of repairs, the state mu
nition factories at Lyons, Toulouse
and Roanne have, since the armistice,
been turned with all speed into rail
way repairing shops.
The French government has long
hesitated to place orders in the Unit
ed States, where alone new rolling
stock could be procured, for fear of
depressing the French rate of ex
change unduly; but the country’s
needs became so pressing that orders
have now been given, it is understood,
for purchasing 800 locomotives and
32.000 cars, while 27,000 American
cars that were to have been shipped to
France for the use of the American
expeditionary force have also been
acquired.
Perhaps the biggest task before the
French transportation exports is the
restoration of the destroyed railway
tracks in the invaded part of France.
An army of 75,000 workers will be en
gaged on this great work for months.
It includes the reconstruction of four
teen tunnels and 16,000 bridges, for
which 50,000 tons of metal are re
quired. *
In addition, hundreds of miles of
main and branch lines have been tem
porarily “borrowed” for military pur
poses from elsewhere, and must now
be relaid.
The departments affected have been
divided up into sections, fo’- each of
which a “chief reorganizer” has been
appointed. Each of them has been re
quired to give an undertaking that he
*will have his section in proper work
ing order as regards transportation,
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VIENNA, Feb 14 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Living con
ditions in Hungary have reached the
■stage where the only hope of the aris
tocracy is that the entente powers
will send troops to Budapest and to
other parts of the country to save
them from the dreaded menace of Bol
shevism. Many of the former aristo
crats have gone to their country
homes and many others would like to
go to Switzerland but are unable to
obtain permission to leave the coun
try. The streets of Budapest are
considered unsafe after dark and
wealthy persons employ soldiers to
guard their homes.
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pest and other towns are receiving
from the state 40 to 50 crowns a day,
three-fourths of which is contributed
by manufacturers, who are fast losing
all the money they made during the
war. One of the largest munition
firms, which recently employed 30,000
persons, is paying them 5,000,000
crowns a week. It is asserted that
this is tending toward the demoraliza
tion of the workmen who prefer to live
upon state pay rather than to return
to work.
Many factories have been brought
to a standstill owing to the lack of
coal and it is feared that flour mills
may also be forced to shut down. The
train service has been reduced to one
train a day between Budapest and Vi
enna, the journey occupying sixteen
hours instead of four.
The cabinet ministers, who, before
the revolution, received salaries of 25,
000 crowns, are now taking 100,000
crowns. The number of under-secre
taries of state has been increased
from twelve to seventy-seven, each
being paid 40,000 crowns a year. Im
mense sums have been expended in
payment to invalided soldiers. A plan
was suggested by which the sum of
25,000,000,000 crowns would have cov
ered all annual pensions, but instead
of adopting such a plan, the ministry
has spent 70,000,000 crowns in a few
weeks in temporary relief, with the
result that the recipients are now
clamoring, for further help.
JOIN THE LEAGUE OF THE NATION
MINSTREL SHOW
TO ENTERTAIN
BOYS ABROAD
PARIS, Feb. 20 (by mail).—Great
need of entertainment for the sol
diers in the American army of occu
pation in Germany is reported by Will
iam J. Mulligan, general chairman of
the committee on war activities of the
Knights of Columbus, who has just
returned from an extended tour along
the entire line occupied by the Ameri
cans. Mr. Mulligan was accompanied
on his visit by Edward L. Hearn, over
seas commissioner of the Knights of
Columbus.
Mr, Mulligan announced that the or
ganization was establishing new clubs
throughout the German territory oc
cupied by Americans, and that a big
minstrel show was being prepared to
begin a tour oi all the camps within
a short time. The company, he said,
includes many performers of nation
wide repute in America, which insures
that the men of the American expedi
tionary force will have a relief from
the inaction of camp life.
“There never has been more press
ing need of those influences among our
men while undergoing the extremely
trying period of activity which comes
with the occupation of captured or sur
rendered territory,” said Mr. Mulli
gan. “Our forces are doing little but
police duty, and of course time hangs
most heavily. Anticipation of the
homeward trip which must, of course,
be delayed for a long time in the case
of many units, does not tend to make
the condition more enjoyable.
“Therefore it is the duty of every
organization to double its efforts to
keep the men contented. While we
were at Coblenz three carloads of
goods arrived for free distribution at
the three clubs already established
there. Other shipments are on the
way and a system of distribution has
been perfected.
“Our work will be carried on faith
fully to the end of all American ac
tivity in France. Everybody will be
welcome and everything will be free.”
Mr. Mulligan and Mr. Hearn have
formulated plans which will keep the
Knights of Columbus secretaries in
France busy for several months.
AMERICAN ARMY
ENJOYS GOOD WEATHER
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
OCCUPATION. Feb. 23 by mail).—
American soldiers of the army of oc
cupation are' enjoying the mildest
January experienced in Rhenish Prus
sia in the last ten years. Until Janu
ary 17 there had only been a few days
:)i freezing weather.
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