TIRED OF SHADOWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 26 February 1923, Page 5

TIRED OF SHADOWS.

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TILL DEBT IS MET. Br <«hl». l're*s A*so<'iatlou. -Copyrlglu.l PARIS, February 23. M. Coin.are. Premier oi rYance. iv a speech at the American club, said that to attribute to France motives of annexation was a foolish and stupid lie. X ranee was tirerj of having seized nothing but shadows, and uTjuld not let go until the debt nas met. i A. and N.Z. Cable, i BRITAIN'S INACTION. GERMAN INTERPRETATION. I.O\IX>N. February 25. I lie attitude, uf British public opinion toward the French jx-cupation of the Kuhr i> thus interpreted b> Herr Breitscheid. a prominent Socialist, who visited Kngland with a view to securing mediation between (Germany and France. "The British public." lie says, 'would like,u> check France, but does not see its way. because France is still Britain's ally. A British offer of mediation, if refused in Paris, would be certain to create ill-feeling and perhaps conflict. This" Britain wants to avoid at all costs, for antipathy against a new war is stronger in Britain than elsewhere. The readiness of Britain to help to untangle the Kuropean skein would be greater could Germany convince, through tangible guarantees, that in a future reparation scheme Germany would really fulfil the obligat'nns she undertook."--iA. and N.Z. "Cable. )