GERMANY BEATEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 31 May 1915, Page 7

GERMANY BEATEN.

AX INTERESTING INTERVIEW. | The Paris correspondent of the New York Sun furnishes the following interview with 11. Viviani, the French Prime Minister:— "'Die German torn lit is checked," he said decisively. Germany is militarily stricken. An implacable blockade is drawing tighter and tighter about her. Respite all precautions Germany has lake.i to conceal tlu; truth, I can assure you that her iinancial and economic rout is complete. "Day for day, the present war has about reached the length of that of 1870. I3ut what difference in France's situation! The first three months of the ! war of IS7O saw our armies at Sedan and Mctz prisoners, another army at Paris invested —in all over 400,000 men! "The world believed France crushed. T.ut ten years after the war, at the Universal position, she showed the world the spectacle of a re-born country. Frame faced her problems squarely, resolved to solve her most arduous interior political questions. FRANCE RETAINED IDEALS. "She retained her ideals of fraternity .and liberty. She applied them to her social l.ivs. She pisiranteiil her imic- ; pendence both by obligatory military service and by international alliances and ententes which German diplomatic duplicity often tried, without success, to ; undo. t "Then came this war with Germany, craftily prepared, then unchained, if Germany really loved peace, she miiriit have bad if simply by accepting pour- , parlors at London on "ifith duly, or t>v> days later by accepting the Czar's call . to Hie Ifague tribunal, or. on Ist duly, Great Britain's call to suspend military ; preparations in view of negotiations at ; London. France and Russia adhered to ; all these pacific attempts, but Germany ! declared war. Ske had been mobilising ( for ten days. "Germany has sadly miscalcuatod. She 1 realises it now. "Without speaking of \ countries other than our own, Germany : expected discords and dissentions. What 1 she ran against was an immovable block i without factions, without Every son of France took up arms, rich i poor, Socialists, Conservatives, free- ! thinkers and Catholics alike. "To-day France's policy continues to tie what in the name of the Government it was stated to be on 22nd December—'war without mercy.' Wo are unanimous - on this point. We are unanimous in , declaring that we will not accept any ( lmt a, victorious peace for all the Allies. , The united pact of 4th September has , our signature, and for us a treaty is not j a scrap of paper. Our armies are intact. , They have, checked the German torrent. , "\\hat was Germany's first objective ( point? Paris. She failed to win it. Then , she tried Dunkirk and then Calais. She j left 200,000 cadavers on the Yser. but ■ she did not pass. 'I he same tiling hanpcned at Xsiney and at Verdun. Ger- ■ many was thrown aside. Her military , power is hard hit. Economically she is ruined, " j FIGHT TO lIITTER END. "An implacable blockade is drawing tighter and tighter about her. Despite all precautions she has taken to conceal the truth, f can assure you that her financial and economic rout is complete, if her cities which tourists visit retain the appearance of prosperity, it is to the detriment of the country districts, which are being famished in order to put uo appearances before the outside world. '"France's economic and financial situation i> normal, des die the enormous 'expenses imposed by 1 be'war. Wo lack nothing. The Allies v.di fight it out to the bitter end. For onr children we wish to end once and for all the peril i;f war engendered by military caste, which in Germany has carried ail classes befo,-' it . "We will destroy this breeding place of perpetual discurd between people. «•<• are hattling for the right. We do not wish to make slaves of any one. We will restore Belgian independence. We will re-unite the French family separated by the mailed fist 44 years Wo wish to be free. V, T e will be."'