POINCARE RESOLUTE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7

POINCARE RESOLUTE

FRANCE WILL COMPLETE HER TASK. (RtUTER'B TELB«nAU.) .(Received 16th April, 12.30 p.m.) .' PABIS, 15th April. M. Pomcare, in a speech at the unveiling of a monument at Dunkirk to the fallen soldiers, said that France was seeking to protect her frontiers against fresh aggression; France was the heaviest sufferer by the war and could not reduce her reparations demands. It was now hor duty to win the peace. Germany had not attempted to pay reparations and France had spent hundreds of milliards of francs on Germany's account. France > had made three discoveries in the Euhr. ' . (1) Germany could have delivered, tho coal she owed, since she was now doing without the Ruhr coal. ' (2) She could have paid in foreign ourrency, sfnce she was now using it to buy goods abroad. (3) The existence of the Schutz-Poliziei was a disguised military organisation. Had a, two years' moratorium been granted Germany, she would, thereafter, have defied the Allies. France would firmly hold the guarantees she had seized and riot surrender them in exchange for mere promises. She would only withdraw from the Ruhr gradually, as the payments were made. She would ;patiently complete the task she had begun. Germany would look in vain for any sign of wavering on the part of France. Without violence and provocation Franca jyould continue to the ciid t