VERDUN CELEBRATIONS.
SPEECH BY PREMIER cy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Lindon, June 18. M. Poincare, speaking at a banquet tendered by the British League of Help, celebrating the defence of Verdun, thanked the people of London for adopting Verdun. lie said France had already advanced nearly 90,000 francs on account of Germany for the restoration of the devistated provinces. “It is,” he said, “su-ely contrary to reason and equity that France should be called upon to bea- herself until now the burden of th- enormous expenses caused by Genian aggression and invasion, but sines for the time being the injustice has fot come to an end we are all the mire sensible to the marks of sympathy you have given our countrymen, whose aomes were destroyed by war.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1922, Page 5
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126VERDUN CELEBRATIONS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1922, Page 5
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