Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1919 — BID BY FRANCE IS TOO LOW [ARTICLE]

BID BY FRANCE IS TOO LOW

Offers Only $300,000,000 for United States Material-May Be Sold Elsewhere. Washington. —The French government having offered only $300,000,000 for American army equipment in France, costing $1,500,000,000, the war department has ordered a sales organization for disposal of the property be formed in France, Director of Sales Hare told a special house committee investigating war department expenditures abroad. Director Hare said the French offer was made to Chairman Parker of the United States liquidation committee. The offer, he stated, included all material, including ship docks, railroad works and equipment, automobile trucks and textiles. “If France will not pay a fair figure,” the director added, “we will take the stuff out of the country and sell It elsewhere.”