How Germany Made France Pay.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1923, Page 4

How Germany Made France Pay.

i!y 11. W. Wi 1 - n>. The Hermitn> and their friends filling t!>e air with piteoii. Icnn n'a lion- beenuse the Frem-li !,ave met ll'eir fraudulent detanll bv nulling •• an cxecn! ion, Wic.i was t ! cir nu crndncl to France in l>h'!l-l, wli-m heat on down, she was making neace ? Ilistnarek and Aloltke played v.-i(’• ' as a cal plays wit!: a a> .use. i>- ■ ' indeed, when Thiers ma.'ie prot est a Ib ir- agm'nst his exorbitant demands threatened, out of sheer brutality, h make him talk German, which, as In well knew. Tlders did not understand The conditions he inmosi-d were o unparalleled severity. Frame was no only i i hand over Alsace-Lorraine ; sin was also to nav C'200.1 It 10.000 in eas! fat ;■ time when France had porltan only a fiG'nlb of her present 'voa.Uh' It is b,.;wi! from v• iviol’s sources Iha this uiiii! ami the form oi pavtiiei: were fixed by the Germans I menus' they leit certain that France would in compelled to defa' !:. To that ease they meant to re. An in occupation o a third of Frame and slowly bleed then victim to death. There was no .'ter-.'. |!v the none, treat?- France bad to nav a first in sialtnent p ; , inn')i :<r; thirty day: after H !•'>•' r, h Government had re established itself in Pans "When the treaty was signed H a aild-c >"th ’.niggle with the G.immune and ii "as noire doubtful w!-"ther h would - " • ive. Taine. as be saw agaitts (lie sky tie blaze of the pnlde- build iugs in Peis. set - n fire by tile fern munists ••red that civilisation itsel was almo! • • neri-di. It has alv Ill's been mmpected—iede a the From'!, Government at that date was conviu ■•••!- i lie ■ hi.-nmrck and tin German roi'Tiib si- —hhilv aided th< C'ninmutii.sts. as '.n<lomiorlT in 1017 aided Lentn Trai's'-v The first u ■::•!" o"t •• as i he enlv on? in the ease ■•' which i-'r asked fc." time, been • '• ' O' • : tb's;u- ”'e!'•* still smoking. It was refused her. 'him ' ■' "(■ despite ibe overwhelming d : Tr-•'*i.e. '• «r fh•vomnent paid ••: Fiery s o other in-rele-enl ' ■ ” u or befnrhe date 1 ’ • | •• t- • >••••. to lie inter ud • itr V When the French • (feed imt: inmnt' V, ad-1 - H e mm "-if] nardk ’LI r ], rant to od GF old From h soil as long as !„• fo did all that was pnx-iMe to oiw • lelay. hut. even s o. th-e last ! "'vn ia 'ranee—Verdun —was evacuated lonths before the Into originnllv fixe', •ecar • e-erv pen" •. >‘f i’-e indemnity iad bean paid by France. That was iow France fulfilled her obligations.