GERMANY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 September 1921, Page 5

GERMANY

FRENCH DISTRUST

ARTICLES IN PRSSS

(BY TELEGJUFH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, Sept. 12. Ex-President Poincare, whose many

• articles in newspapers show the deeped of Germany, and insist on the security of France, demands the strictest application of the penalties provided for in the Peace Treaty for 'any.default by Germany. M. Foincare contributes to L© Temps * lengthy article revealing secret negotiations at the Peace Conference between M. Clemenceau, Mr. LToyd George, and President Wilson regarding the military occupation oi the Rhine provinces. M. Poincare, as President, with the aid of M. Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, used the utmost influence to secure the insertion in the Peace Treaty of a clause enabling the Allies to occupy the Rhine provinces until had carried out all the Treaty's conditions, including the full payment of reparations, which would :take a minimum of thirty years. Mr. Lloyd George and President Wilson refused to extend the period for the occupation of the Rhine beyond fifteen jears, preferring a still shorter period. M. Clemenceau reluctantly agre3d to fifteen years, after Mr. Lloyd George sand President Wilson had signed an agreement by which Britain and America undertook to send France mi Hffcary aid if she were attacked without provocation by Germany. Tnis apreesnent, which was dependent on rutificntion by the British and Anieriian Parliaments, became a dead letter by the American Senate's refusal to rtdify the Treaty. M. Poincare's article in Le Itiuns suggests that France should noTr demand new guarantees in regard to Germany's fulfilment of the Treatj as the terma under which France agreed that the occupation of ihe Rhi-i© sbnuld oe reduced to fifteen jears } aye been ■rofcen.