FRANCE AND GERMANY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9875, 24 July 1923, Page 5

FRANCE AND GERMANY

FRANCO-BELGIAN REPLY.

READY NEXT WEEK.

PREMIERS NOW IN CONFERENCE

(Per Press Association, Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) PARIS, July 23. It is expected M. Poincare and M. Theunis -will meet at the end of the ■week and make an to answer the British Note before August 3.

SPEECH Bar M. POINCARE. REPLY TO JSffit "ILOY© GEORGE. r PARIS, July 22. M. Poincare, when unveiling a war ■ moifment at Yillers-Cotterets, replied to Mr Lloyd -George’s -recent criticism in the House of Commons of the French Government’s policy. M. Poincare referred to the Germans “syetematic obstruction of French etforte to repair .the ravages of war, said: “This is the moment chosen by an eminent statesman and a former Prime Minister of an Allied country to .seek to create a mischievous comparison between France and Germany to characterise as amusing the -fact that while France is spending so much money in repairing her devastated regions, she is complaining of <extravagant expenditure by the Berlin Government. All this may be veiy amusing for Air Lloyd George but it as saddening, and even intolerable, for

Poincare wished all the Allies Jhad gone to the Ruhr with France. They would have understood bettei the “real danger of to-morrow. He •drew a graphic picture of the tremendous industrial organisation the Germans had .built U P This organisation was substituting jS more and more for the State which it was enveloping, domumting, pod annihilating. It was the mastei ofthe and the Government. Subjected the German Republic to a domination more powerful than that Of ihe Junkers. Against ibis danger r'lSy tho Tnted Governments ; withTbosis for instructive compariand grounds for equitable deciSSf if would be sufficient for them EtessrsTss**"* PSFRtKV did not. refer to the British Note.