FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1917, Page 5

FRANCE.

THE WAR'S SUPREME PHASE.

NEED FOR ALLIES' CLOSE CO' ORDINATION.

Reuter Service. i Received Sept. 19, 8.10 p.m. Paris, Sjpt. IS. In the Chamber, M. Painleve announced tho Government policy. The Government, lie said, was giving all attention to the assembling of all the forces of the nation for the supreme phase 0} the war. He emphasised that the nearer the end came, tho more essential towards victory would 'be the moral resistance of tho nation. The enemy was unable to conquer on the battlefield, and was about to redouble his efforts elsewhere. The ■Government must redouble its vigilance against those insidiou? plans. Whoever made himself an accomplice of the enemy must suffer the full rigor of tho law. ( No enemy manoeuvres and no individual 'weakness would turn France from her unshakeaWe determination in regard to the restoration of AlsaceLorraine and reparation for the damage and ruin wrought. France desired a peace containing no germ of future wars, but wherein there were effective guarantees to protect the society of nations against all aggression on the part of one among them. These were the aims of France. As long as these were unattained Franco would continue to fight. Co-ordination was necessary among the ■Allies, who must act as if they were a single nation with a single army on a single front. All must equally contribute men, arms, and money. Only with this condition will their superior forces begomo crushing.' Such a policy would allow France, without exhausting herself, to meet her economic and military needs.

(Referring to after the war problems, he said they would have to restore tho reconquered districts and regulate the return of soldiers to normal life, avoiding the crisis of unemployment. They should increase production and national credit, and establish a fiscal system on just .and bold lines, and embody as part of tho social life the reforms recently introduced between the workmen and employers.