Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-02
Premier Ribot of France Makes Explicit Statement
 in National Chamber.
USES LANGUAGE
 LIKE ROOSEVELT
Declares "ChancellOr's Version Con. tains Inaccuracies and Absolute LieS."-RuSSian Minister
 Also Makes Denial.

Paris, August 1.-PGemier Ribot re piled in the chamber Yesterday to the declaration made Saturday bv Dr.. ,Michaelis, the German chancellor that there was secret treaty be- tween France and Russia having in view plans of conquest. Premier Ri- bot said:
 "The German chancellor publicly commanded the French government to declare whether in secret Sit ting June 1 the French government had not made known to the chamber of deputies the terms of a secret treaty made before the Russian revo- lution, whereby the emperor bound himself to support French preten- sions to German territory on the left bank of the Rhine.
 "The chancellor's version contains gross inaccuracies and absolute lies, notably regarding the role he at tributed to the president of the re- public in giving an order to sign treaty unknown to Premier Briand The chambers know ,low things pass. ed M. Doumerge (eX-prenier and foreign minister after conversation with the emperor, demanded and ob- tained M Briands authorization to take note of the eniperors promise to support our claim to Alsace-Lor' raine and to leave us free to seek guarantees against flesh aggression not by annexing territories on the left bank of the Rhine but making an au- tonamous state of these territories W1 md o1- gium against invasion.
 Denies Allegation.
 "We have never thought to do what Bismarck did in 1871. We are there fore entitled to deny the allegation of the chancellor, who evidently knows of the letters exchanged February, 1917. in Petrograd and falsified since as his most illustrious predecessor fal- sified the Ems dispatch. Whenever the Russian government is ready to publish these letters we have no ob- jection
 "The chancellor refrained from speaking about my declaration, March 21, wherein I repudiated in Frances name any policy of conquest and an nexation by force. He has wilfully forgotten my language May 22, in the chamber, saying we are ready to en- ter with conversation with Russia as to the object of the war, and if the German people, whose right to live land develop peacefully we do not contest, understood that we wish peace founded on the right of the people, the conclusion of peace would thereby be singular'y facilitated.
 Finally chancellor passed over in Silence the resolution unanimously voted after the June secret session."
 Here Premier Ribot read from his speech in the chamber warning against those who wished to spread the conviction that France was de- manding conquest and read the terms of the resolution adopted by the cham Der at the time, declaring that peace conditions must include the liberation Of territories occupied by Germany, the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France and just reparation for dam age done in the invaded regions. The resolutions also favored the creation Of league of nations for the main tenance of peace.
 Mane euvres Are Crude. Who now dare say to the world mat we wish annexation?" continued rremier Ribot. "Such manuvres are 100 crude to deceive any one, especial " the democratic masses of the Rus sian people who are vainly being lrled to separate them from their a'lles by deceiving them as to the true sentiments of French democracy what is the chancellor seeking? He IS irving to hide the embarrassment Halch he feels in defying Germany's oplects of war and conditions where i4n in she would make peace. He is try .ng especially to turn aside attention rum the terrible responsibility ..elshlng on the conscience of the "aaser and his counsellors.
 u Is the publication of decisions nsu aue on July at the council held at russian at which all consequences S;. tne ultimatum to Serbia were Sn" SS,Scussed and from which war was 'oUnd to spring, that the chancellor
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