Report To The Executive Committee Of The French Relief Fund PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Executive Committee of the French Relief Fund In this state of affairs your Commissioners were very reluctantly led to the opinion that the cargo of the Worcester, consisting chiefly of flour in bar rels, with mess beef, pork, and other bulky pro visions, could not be successfully distributed in the districts where it was needed; partly because of the general confusion arising from the political Situation, and partly because of the great interruption of rail road and other inland transportation. Large quan tities of merchandise were lying at the stations, waiting transportation which the railways were nu able to furnish, their capacity for moving goods having been greatly impaired by the war, and the means still at their command being almost wholly absorbed by the Government. Many railroad bridges had been destroyed, and the navigation of the rivers was interrupted by their ruins, almost as completely as was the traffic of the railroads by their destruc tion. About fifteen thousand freight cars had been carried away by the Germans, or otherwise lost dur ing the war. The Government was bringing home from Germany about three thousand prisoners per day, who were to be distributed all over France. Meanwhile, an army was to be organized at Ver sailles, to operate against the insurgents at Paris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.