RIGHTS OF FRANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 5

RIGHTS OF FRANCE.

ACTION TO ENFORCE THEM.; THE PREMIER'S STATEMENT. RESENTMENT IN GERMANY. IBj Cable.—Press Aeoclation. —Copjrlsbt.) (Receivea 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. The '"Petit Parisien" says that even assuming the worst, it is ovideni that M. Poincare does not intend France to act alone when he declares that France alone will have the right to tube action. I He has too much confidence in the gyod , sense of the Allies, and more particularly in the loyalty of .Britain and the I British Government to believe that he I would have to enforce his strict rights. • The French Government, while fullyj determined to exercise its rights to the full, does not intend to exceed the limits laid down by the Government's decisions, hut will follow those of the Reparation Commission, which are regulated by the acts of the German Government for the period endins J May 31. j XI. Poincare's speech at Bar le Due ! evoked intense bitterness. The German j Press representing the "Right" party, j which has observed the truce since the Genoa Conference began, is now rabidly Nationalist and anti-French. The "Kreuz Zeitung" heads its leader "'PoineaTe's Declaration of War," and predicts that French troops will occupy the Rhineland on May 31. Germany was unable to offer military resistance, hut could practise passive resistance. The paper advises the Government to pay up the sums due under the reparation clauses. — fA. and X.Z. Cable.)