FRANCE REGENERATED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 12 January 1915, Page 7

FRANCE REGENERATED.

AX UXTIIKKATIiXKO PAIiIS. Vancouver, December 30. A Paris message says that the Chamber of Deputies has unanimously voted .-C:i-|u,(l(lO,i.'tiO to cover war expenditure for the next six months. It was. announced that (leneral dollre had granted leave to those deputies serving in the army uutii three (lavs alter the termination of the .lamtary session. The Kngiish reception of the speeches delivered in the Frencn Chamber by the Premier, 51. Yiviani, and M. Dcschaind, is crvstallised by tlie London Daily Chronicle in one sentence:—"lf Germany has lost her soul in this war France lias found hers.'' The Chronicle adds: "Tlic war lias revealed France regenerated and purged of dross, virile, and capable of any sacritice.'' Another London daily, the Morning Post, welcomes the salutary cll'cct, of the l-'i'i'licli Premier's reminder that the tight would be hard and long. "Happily," the Post goes on to say, "Air. Lloyd Cleorge has lifted a corner of the veil and disclosed the magnitude of tlie effort that Britain lias begun to make, and will continue with ever-increasing strength of 1 'llad it been foretold to the Warotliee at Berlin," writes the London Daily Telegraph, "that four months after breaking peace the whole machinery ol the French- State would be calmly performing its functions in an iinthreatened 'Paris, the prophecy would have been, scouted as a madman's dream." The Times has those comments:--"Whatever the deluded fiermnn public think the leaders and rulers know p«rfci'tl.v that their original plans have failed. Tlie.y are only fighting for some advantage which v ill be a step owa rds their ultimate object—the downfall ol Liigland. They hold Belgium, particiilayly the '-oast line and Antv.ero. and will cling to it -Willi all the more ienacitv. bcealist it is the onlv gain they have Mil Ic. If they succeed the.' wi'l =.'■>vl over ayain to build up 'lioir strength, and will use Belgium as a jumping-olf l.'ilice."