CLAIMS MADE BY FRANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2480, 14 September 1922, Page 1

CLAIMS MADE BY FRANCE.

WILL NOT RE RENOUNCED.

PARIS, Sept. 10.

M. Poincare, speaking at the anniversary of the Rattle of the Marne, declared that though France would never be guilty of Imperialism, she intended that peace should be a reality. It was useless to compare the Allied sacrifices. France had never contested the loyalty and bravery of her friends, and she did not want to compare expenditure and casualties. It was sufficient for them to say none of them had a right to arrogate supremacy in victory. During four years France had exhausted herself repairing single-handed her damages in the northern and eastern provinces. Was that just t If Germany avoided Relgium’s legitimate requirements, she would put herself in a condition of default. It only remained for France to utilise a liberty which she had not surrendered and with which she would not part, “Before all we intend to recover our credit on Germany. We cannot renounce our claim without ruining' Franee. It is necessary, therefore, that willingly pr perforce, Germany shall fulfil her engagements. • Wo are as jealous as others about European solidarity, but solidarity requires the safety of France. If we are not assisted to re-establish ourselves, we shall help ourselves. Let us swear, on the battlefield of the Marne, to obtain justice !’’—A. and N.Z. cable.