Reduced by 25,000
Half of Big Programme Said Completed Paris, Mar. 8.
With Frs. 3000000000 having already been spent and 25,000 unemployed given work, half of the anti-unemployment programme in the Paris area. has been completed, M. Jules Giraud. Commissioner-General for Public Works Projects in the Paris Area, told a "Petit Parisien" correspondent today. The program me, he added, consists of three main tasks: improvement of the area around Paris, demolition of slums in the capital, and the construction of parks and sports grounds.—Havas, Tele-monial.
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