FRANCE’S SECURITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 20 February 1919, Page 5

FRANCE’S SECURITY.

I Ml I |U II MUST WHICH THE RHINE. international army required. Anstralian-N. Z. Cable Association Paris, Feb 17 Interviewed, M. Bouillon,! Presifoct of the Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Affairs, said: The Pttliament of France will not ratify, a nd the people of Frfance will rise against, any peace treaty which does not give France security, which is Possible only by possession of the Saar Valley and the neutralisation the left bank of the Rhine. Frenchmen will not accept a League ®I Nations which is unable to protect our eastern frontiers with an international armed force. My °pini:n is that an Allied watch host be kept on the Rhine lor at hast bye years, RESTORATION OF FRENCH INDUSTRIES. Paris, Feb 17 U. Louchear, the Minister of Industrial Reconstruction, informed Jnn.Seuate that three thousand milIj ons sterling would be necessary to the Departments da Nord *?d Pas da Calais. The restora*'°n of the mines would take a dejatJe and would cost SO millions. *ne coal ontpnt in 1919 would he htfee thousand tons, compared with 7 °,000 tons before the war.