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from 4 hundred to 12 hundred frank a pair. So of corse many have nothing but American old shoes or woden shoes to wair children shoes 300 franks. You can imagine that there are very few children that have shoes. The reason of all this scarcity is that when the Bush left they stold everything they could lay their hands on there was no difference between the officer and men of the rank, they all proved them selves to be a low down theaving race. by steeling right and left, after the signing
of the  Armistice cows horses every thing what little the people have, was keep by hiding or by making a violent protest which in most cases of no value after all. Often we have made the coffee in the