FRONTIERS OF ALSACELORRAINE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14957, 3 January 1919, Page 5

FRONTIERS OF ALSACELORRAINE.

BRITISH PREMIER AND M.

CLEMENCEAU

A PERTINENT QUESTION.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

Paris, Dec. 30,

Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Pichon, Foreign Minister, said

that they did not want a policy of annexation, but reserved entire liberty of action concerning the frontiers of Al-sace-Lorraine. He said that Germany had been conquered, but not crushed, and she must be prevented from finding compensation for her losses in German Austria. He declared that the action of the Allies in Russia would be confined to the reorganising of the Russian forces so as to enable them to effect the economic encirclement of Bolshevism.

The President of the Foreign Committee said that the Saar mining basin must be included in Alsace-Lorraine, and that no enemy troops or fortresses mu&t remain on the left bank of the Rhine, or twenty-five miles from the right bank of the Rhine.

It is reported that in a conversation with Mr Lloyd George, in which the •latter asked: "Do you agree that without the British Fleet you could not have continued the war?"

M. Clemeneeau replied: "Yes." Mr Lloyd George asked: "Then, under such conditions, "would you be inclined to prevent us rendering the same service again?" M. Clemeneeait answered: "No." Afterwards M. Clemenceau told Prefeident Wilson, who congratulated him on France's loyalty towards Britain, that each of the nations might retain its own viewpoint upon the question of freedom of the seas.