BRITISH NOTE TO FRANCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 12 April 1920, Page 5

BRITISH NOTE TO FRANCE.

A. STRONG ADMONITION

(The Time* Service, i ' LONDON, April 10

The ■ Times understands that at Thursday's Cabinet meeting, some ■■•-"Ministers-urged that the wording of the' British Nftte to^ France, especially the conclusion, should be moiified, i? 6as lo lender it. less offensive. Mr Lloyd George, hqwever, insisted, on harsher wording, and carried his point. : 1 The Note consists of four typewritten foolscap sheets, , and states "■■;■ that M. \lillerand and his colleagues had given the impression that i Prance would abstain' from singleEianded action.

The Note expects France «not to acfc on her own initiative;

, .-otherwise, the work' of the Peace '.Conference-may he futile, and it instructs the Ambassador to abstain ■from attending the Conference of Ambassadors until assured that France will act in future in concert *vith the Allies. .