MUST HAVE ALSACE.
, PARIS, pSept. 20. Since the days of Caesar, the Rhine has always constituted the true boundary between France arid-Gei'mahy as historj would show, said Jules 'CSariibon,- general secretary to the Ministry; -.of '.Foreign Affairs, m commenting, to-day upon the recent Ministerial declamation m its re ference to the dis^annexation- of AlsaceLorraine. ■' ■' s
"Although the French since 1870 have cherished a passionate attachment for Alsace," remarked M. Cambon, - : "they ' never would have thought of nisking -a world-wide war m order to- retake it. Aw the war has beeri imposed iipori! them.* however, they are demanding that, ' Alsace bo returned to the Mother Country; 'As' regards repatriation the most elementary 'principles--' of justice "call foi the payment by Germany to' France arid Belgium for all the depredations she has cpnimitted." '"'"•■ ' .*•* '
M. Cambon dismissed "the internal political incidents' toV 'France a s of rib; real importarice ? arid as 'likely to happen m tiny deniocracy. - ; "- ■;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 8
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