FRENCH-WAR AIMS
6 STIRRING DECLARATION BY NEW PREMIER t i
- RESTORATION,' REPARATION \ AND GUARANTEES : RUSSIAN OUTLOOK BRIGHTER AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ■ A stirring declaration <.f French war aims is contained in the new Premier's first policy speech in the Chamber of Deputies. The restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, reparation for damage and ruin, and effective guarantees for a lasting peace, are the objects for which Franco is fighting, and will continue to fight nntil attained. The nation is strongly urged to strengthen its moral resistance to the subtle and insidious "silent" campaign which tho enemy, his armies impo'tent in the field, is waging underground in many treacherous and deep-dyed ways. There is a comparative lull in. the West. On the Isonzo the Italian offensive is not yet spent, and fresh progress is recorded in the dispatches to-day. The ltussian situation is much brighter, according to a statement from the Russian Embassy in London. General Alexieff is hardening up his country's fighting efficiency, reorganising tho Army, and taking over the supreme direction of military operations. The reports which are reaching America are more conflicting. On tho one hand tho crisis is stated to be extremely grave, "while on tho other the statements are more reassuring.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 5
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201FRENCH-WAR AIMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 5
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