To Germany Stockholm, Dec. 16, Norway will send 5,000 workers to Germany in January' where they will be given employment at the German wage scale, despatches from Oslo said yesterday. There are more than 35,000 persons unemployed. in Norway at present and the figure was expected to increase during the coming winter. The Government appropriated 40,000,000 crowns for relict work largely in war-harassed districts. "United Press.
Although the project would leave the French West African Empire inspendett of the control of Gibraltar, which appears to be one of its main Objectives, it could not be regarded an important factor in the present European war, since at least 20 years would be required (o build the proposed railway, M, Berthelot said, Produce Petroleum, Foodstult The Niger Valley will be developed within 20 years to such an extent that It will be able to produce millions of tons of petroleum products and foodstuffs within 20 years, the French official; predieted, and the proposed trans-Sahara line would handle most of the anticipated trafic, 'Although there would be no bustsss in the area between the two mini, which is a vast expanse of blazing' cand, the railway would be self-supporting from the start and eventually would {urn a profit for its builders.
They would be assured of at least 1000 tons of freight annually for shipment to Oran from French Guiana, and the French Sudan, which would the. sullefent to compensate the cost the construction und maintenance of the Tine, Manufsetured goods, clothing and other items of freight shipped to the Interior from the Mediterranean Would represent net profit for the railway owners, M, Berthelot believed, Oil and foodstuffs produced in the Niger Valley in the past have beer shipped to Prance by sea from West African ports through the Steaits-of Gibraltar, The overland route to Oran has not been used to any great extent, except for an occasional camel
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