FRENCH CABINET POLICY.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1917, Page 1

FRENCH CABINET POLICY.

spratCH j»y u. iwn»t.KVK.. [nun rnpss association. —gopyrtgut.j [“reuter’s” telegram.] • . PARIS, September 18. |ii the Chamber Al. Pain love announced the Governments policy. The Government was givihg all attention to assembling all the forces of the nation for the supreme phase of the war. Hr* emphasised that the nearer the end came, the more, essential towards victory would he the moral resistance of tjhe nation. The enemy who was unable to conquer on the battlefield was about to redouble his efforts and the. Government must redouble its vigilance against those insidious plans. -"Whoever made, himself an accomplice of the enemy must suffer the full rigour of the law. No enemy maneouvres and no individual weakness could turn France, from her unshakeabh/ determination lor the restoration of AlsaceLorraine, reparation for the damage and ruin wrought and a. peace containing no germ of future wars, but in which would be effective guarantees to protect society and nations against all aggression on the part ql one among them. These were the aims oi France, and long as these were not attained France would continue to light.

Co-ordination was necessary among the Allies who must act as il they were a tangle* nation witli a single army on a single front. All must equally -'(foiltribute. ’ men, arms and money. Only, on this condition would their sunorior forces become crushing gneli a uolicy would allow France, without exhausting hcrsell, to meet her economic and military need;;. Referring to after-tlie-war problems the Premier said that'’ France would have to restore tho reconquered districts, regulate the return ot the soldiers to normal life, avoiding a crisis of unemployment, increase her production and national credit, establish a fiscal system on just and bold lines, and embody as part of lier social life the reforms recently introduced between workmen and employers.