FRANCE WILL FIGHT ON TO THE END

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 5

FRANCE WILL FIGHT ON TO THE END

NEW GOVERNMENT POLICY STATED THE TASK AHEAD AND THE MEANS TO DO By Telegraph-Press Association- Copyright (Rec. September 19, S.lO p.m.) . . ■ . Paris, September 18. Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Painleve (tho Premier) announced tho Government's policy. The Government, he said, was giving all its attention to the assembling of all tho forces of the nation for the supreme phase of tho war. He said with emphasis that tho nearer the end came the more essential towards victory would have to be the moral resistance of the nation, for the enemy, unable to conquer .on tho battlefield, was about to redouble his efforts in subtler ways. The Government must redouble its vigilance agitinst - those insiduous plans. Whoever made himself an accomplice of the enemy must suffer the full rigour of the law. No manoeuvres of the enemy, no in. dividual weakness, would turn France from her unshakable determination for the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, reparation for the damage and ruin wrought, and a peace containing no germ of future wars, but in which effective guarantees for the protection of the society of nations against all aggression on tho . part of one among thorn. These were the aims of Prance, and as long as these were unattamed France would continue to fight. Co-ordination was nices. sary among the Allies. All must act as if they were a single nation, a single army, on a single front. All must equally contribute in men, arms, and money. "Only on this condition will their superior forces become a crushing power," he declared. "Such a policy will allow France, without exhausting herself, to meet her economic and military needs." Eeterring to after-war problems the Premier said: "We will havo to restore tho reconquered districts, regulate the return of the soldiors to normal life, avoiding tho crisis of unemployment, increase cur production and national credit, establish a fiscal system on just and bold lines, and embody as part of our social life the reforms recently introduced between workmen and employers."—Eeuter.