Mr. Lloyd George then instanced the French flax industry, which had practically been wiped out, so that Germany, which before the war supplied France to the extent of eight per cent.. was now supplying 50 per cent. of France's requirements in regard to flax products.
He further cited the case of the blast-furnaces and rolling-mills in Belgium which had been deliberately destroyed.by dynamite in order to prevent the Belgian industry from competing with Germany after the war.
In contrast with these facts the houses of the German people, with a few exceptions in East Prussia, had
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