“THE LAST RESORT”
FRANCE ACTS INDEPENDENTLY".
RESPONSE TO PRECIPITATE GERMAN ACTION. Australian and N.ZI. Cable Association. (Received April 9, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 8. Another proposal was to leave the decision to the German Government strictly providing thalb if the neutral zone was not evacuated immediately,, and circmtstances permitted, the Allies would exercise the option of occupying important German centres. Tho German Government apepars to have acted precipitately, and "■■ France responded by adopting the plan which had been suggested as a last resort bv the Allies as a whole. ' ' Tho Allies, except -France, felt that Germany ought to restore order, and they were opposed to the idea of their regular forces being called on. except as a last resort, to undertake what wero virtually police duties, , -- France, with her long experience of the German yoke, and the . proved worth of German assurances, evidently concluded- 'that the German movement of troon® into the neutral zona was undertaken for some ulterior object. ; ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10560, 10 April 1920, Page 7
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