FRANCE TO-DAY.
SERIOUS ECONOMIC EXHAUSTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 15. Mr. Ward Price, writing in the Daily Mail, declares that France is suffering serious economic for which the .Government sees no remedy beyond increasing the issue of paper money, which threatens ultimate bankruptcy. Increased prices are eating up the savings of the most frugal classes and producing interminable demands for higher wages. Britain and America are being bitterly reproached, owing to their failure to secure for France financial reparation from Germany. The situation favors in a dangerous degree the growing revolutionary spirit, not only among the workers, but> among the hitherto conservative poor. M. Longuet is openly promoting Bolshevism and class war, and organising a Red Guard with the view of recourse to armed force. Other Socialist leaders boldly declare that if the elections favor the bourgeoisie bloodshed is inevitable.—United
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1919, Page 5
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141FRANCE TO-DAY. Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1919, Page 5
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