FRANCE.
ALLIES' WAR DEBT. CONCERTED LIQUIDATION URGED, Received Jan. 1, 1.15 p.m. Paris, Dee. 30. In the Chamber, the Finance Minister said the Entente should consider concerted action over the liqtiidation of war debts. If the burden was reckoned at £20,520.000,000 at five per cent, interest, it would be possible to provide a sinking fund extinguishing the debt in tlfty years.—Aus. N.Z. CaWe Assoc.
ALSACE-LORRAINE. FRENCH VIEWS ON ENSURING • ' SAFETY. Received Jan. 1, 1.30 p.m. Paris, >Dec. 30. In the Chamber, M., Pichon said he did not want a policy of annexation, but reserved entire liberty regarding the frontiers of Alsace-Lorraine. He also said that Germany had been conquered, but not crushed, and must be prevented from finding compensation for her losses in German Austria. He declared that the action of the Allies in Russia would fee confined to reorganising the Russian forces to enable them to effect an economic encirclement of Bolshevism. The president of the Foreign Affairs Committee said that the S&ar mining basin must be ineluded in- AlsaceLorraine, and no enemy troops or fortresses must remain on the left bank of the Rhine, or for twenty-five miles on the right bank of the Rhine. —Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1919, Page 5
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