NO PEACE
AN ELOQUENT REBUKE
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Service.) PARIS, September 20. U. Briand, in the Chamber of Depu-: ties, delivered a most eloquent speech as an' outcome of/the "remarks of M v Brizon, a Socialist, who roused the Chamber to anger by asking whether. France had not already suffer ea, enough, and if she could not now negotiate for peace. M. Briand said: "Look at your country; Brizon ! It has been violently attacked for two years. It had the honour to be the champion of the right, and has stayed the invader. Yet, when its blood flows, you say, 'Negotiate peace. 1 What a challenge! What an outrage to the memory' or. our dead ! Ten of our provinces have beon invaded, and old men, women, and children carried off. They await deliverance. Yet'you ask for a peace which is humiliating and dishonouring. The Chamber gave a great ovation to M. Briand, and by 421 votes to 26 ordered the speech to bo placarded. throughout France.' . ...
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
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