FRANCE AND BRITAIN.
REGRETTABLE COINCIDENCE. PARIS, August 21. M. Poincare attended the uuveilI ing of the first milestone along the I Voiesacree, fifty-seven kilometers from Barleduc to Verdun, over which the French troops marched in 19 Hi to support the stricken town. In a, subsequent speech he disclaimed the | French desire lor aggrandisement. 1 rance only asked for the execution of the treaties and the payment of j damages. France’s friends, however, were obsessed with the idea to recover foreign markets. The Allies came to an understanding three years ago at the expense of France, and denied her right to have the French policy asserted. Britain had favoured the granting of the' German request for a moratorium ; without consulting France, and had | simultaneously issued the Balfour note, to France’s great surprise at a moment when Germany was announcing she would not pay. He considered the coincidence a regrettable one at the very least.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18566, 23 August 1922, Page 5
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