GERMANY'S WAR GUILT
FRANCE UNFORGETFUL. DEFINITE PROOF AWAITED. (Pres* Association—B? Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, September 27. (Received Sept. 27, at 9 p.m.) France’s attitude towards Germany’s claim that the latter was acquitted of responsibility for the war when she was admitted to the League of Nations was defined by M. Poincare when addressing disabled soldiers in Versailles. “When the Central Empires brought cataclysm,” he said, “you did not dream of rendering every individual in the German Empire responsible for it, nor did you attribute to every enemy officer or soldier the barbarities committed in our invaded villages. Nevertheless, you cannot forget that war was declared upon us, and waged upon our territory and across the violated soil of a neutral State. You also remember that it was carried out under tin orders of the Imperial Staff with pitiless cruelty. My friends, if the Germany of to-day were openly to disavow such acts of the Germany of yesterday how much easier it would be for us to hold out our hands towards our assailants?”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 9
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