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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1923, Page 3

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(ÜBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. POINCARE'S STATEMENT. (Received this day at 12 noon). PARIS, July 15. M. Poincare, in unveiling a monument to Orient. .Mayor of Sonlis, who was shot by Germans in 1911, referred to the serious propositons now the subject of Anglo-French negotiations. M Poincare declared what France wanted to do was to make the Versailles Treaty respected. Frame had never ceased to make concessions since the armistice. She alone had borne great burdens. France had la on badly treated. although she had a majority of interests at stake. She had a minority representation on the Reparations Commission. Efforts had been made to replace the Commission by an international tinancid committee. This was not in France's general interest. It proposed to relieve the German debt fiy cancellation of the Inter-Allied debt, hut we considered it to he asking too much. Nevertheless. Germany has been so well cared for dining the post three years that she is able to leave her obligations unfulfilled, and France had to pay one hundred millions which Germany should have paid. Have we not tolerated the reconstruction of German shipping, development of canals, and enrichment of her industry. Equal firmness on the part of till the Allies would have made such had faith impossible. Germany now lias an organised resistance and France has been forced in nreeiuimtc pressure. Were France not in Ruhr, her hands would have been empty, whereas she now holds pledges and (loos not intend to let them go. Tie was always a faithful partisan in the Anglo-French Alliance and even before the war believed in the close union of the two great nations of western Europe. None, therefore. would regret it more than himself. if any shadow should darken the friendship to which lie contributed. He knew the Allies were as holiest ns themselves, and felt assured that in the end they would agree that France was right. “I.K TEMPS’ ” OPINION. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS. July 15. “I.e Temps” affirms that France, in following the policy of her Allies, met with deception after deception. Whv does England work against France? It is not by change nor is it because < f suspicion or lack of diplomatic skill. It is instinct winch always goads her forward to icduro the power of the most i111111c• 111i111 nation, and to divide the powers ol Europe one against the other.