NEEDS OF FRANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 September 1918, Page 5

NEEDS OF FRANCE.

STATEMENT BY MISSIONER

"My impression of this" port," eaid M. Motte (a leading woollen manufacturer and spinner of Roubaix, and a member of the. French Mission visiting Australia) to a Sydney gathering a few days ago (says the. Sydney Mornung Herald) "is that it is quite sufficient for 100,000,000 people if you had them. I was much struck with the immense quantity of wool 1 saw in Woolloomooloo Bay. We want that wool on the other side. We want it bady to give work to our men.. There are..eertaanly in the Department dv Nord^ where I come from, 1,000,000 people who live on wool. I do not mean they eat it: = ■ These men have been fighting for four years, while their wives and children have been in bondage under the Ger- ' man yoke. When the war is over we will want your support. You will have to give us all the necessary support, co that our men can go back to work immediately. We must organise so - that the day the war is over the raw material will be poured out of Australia into France to set the wheels going again, otherwise our workmen will 6tarve,* as their women and children have been starving for four years France must be helped. The alliance must go on after the war. We must never forget the bond we hay© entered into. Northern France has been one of your best customers, and it is only business to support a customer, especially a customer like Roubaix, where we - are good pays. We are full of 'spring and buck,' but we are greatly handicapped. We will now work to rebuild France, just as our fathers worked to build it. We must never forget there has been a war. Tell your tradesmen your commercial. travellers and your workers never to forget that Germany ' has-been our enemy for four years and more. Germany set the world on fire, and during these four years our mankind has been killed off. It would be ' top.«asy if the Germans were not punished. They must be made to feel and realise their position. The Germans went -to, war to satisfy their passions. It they had. waited 50 years they would have been masters of the world without war. fitat they wanted to settle things by military means to, satisfy their passion. They must be made to sufier, and the only thing for civilised people like the- Allies to do is to make them realise their position. Your workmen should realise that they must support their brothers—the workmen of Northern France '>