“AN ORATORICAL OFFENSIVE.”
«, FRENCH PREMIER’S SPEECH. » By Telegraph —Press Association— Oopyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ('Received August 23, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. The Paris correspondent of the *•' Daily Chronicle, 7 ’ commenting on M. Poincare’s speech at Bar-le-Due, says that since he returned. M. Poincare had not previously referred publicly to the differences at the London Conferenced His unexpected oratorical offensive against Britain and the British Government was made in a carefully prepared speech which he read. There might have been an excuse for a speech so full of bitter words and insinuations it the London Conference had ruptured the Entente. It will r.ot. .fail to delight the French Nationalist Press, aud serve the interests of the Anglophobes, ulio are preaching a rupture' of the Entente and an alliance with Germany. M. Poincare declared that France in facing the reparations problem/ had encountered difficulties more surprising than Germeut’s bad faith.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16819, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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