The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-30

10 overcome this remorSe OF NJ. I eTes-
chenko? The French government will
not be able to deny all this and ii viii
he obliged TO confess. although IL may
do so only tactically. that VI. BRAND
was the object OF stormy attacks dur
ing the secret session. that Premier
Ribot was Obliged to produce the secret
treaty in response to the demand OF
NJ. Renaudel tleader of the majority
socialists in the French ehamberl ana
also that NJ. BRAND in the course of
the excited debate which ensued de-
clared that revolutionary Russia was
Obliged to carry out what imperial
Russia had promised and that II did
not matter to France what was said
BY the lowest classes in Russia.
CHARACTERISTIC REPLY
1T is characteristic that Deputy
Moutet, according to his own state
ment, replied in Russia to the ques-
ton whether Alsaee-Lorraine was the
only obstacle TO peace by saying he
could not answer the question in that
form and that Russia ought to take in
to consideration the fact that the Rus
sian revolution had been purchased by
French blood.
THE admission of Deputies Cochin
and Moutet that the Russian repre-
sentatives had declared in the course
Oi the HGEOlldtlOHS AIlal liSS
no importance to Constantinople throws
clear light on Russian sentiment. The
delegates from the Russian armies also
are in agreement with this.
MENTIONED ITALY
Regardless of this manifest proof
of the revulsion of the Russian peo-
Pile against u policy of ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
Premier Ribot refused in the secret
session of the French chamber to un
dertake any revision of the French
war aims and announced the fact that
Italy also had received guarantees OF
great territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
I'm order to divest their ambitions
on the left bank of the Rhine of a
character of greed and conquest, he
resorted to a lawyers trick by arguing
the necessity of creating a buffer state,
but the opposition speakers cried out
in the direction of contradictions: 1T is
disgraceful.'
Il would like also to mention that
Premier Ribot, after a pacifst speech
by Deputy Augagneur. replied that the
Russian generals had declared that
the Russian armies never were in bet
ter condition or better equipped than
then. Here appears in perfect clear
ness the desire to let the Russian peo-
pie go on shedding their blood in be-
half of the unjust ambitions of France.
DESIRE FULFILLED
This desire has been fulfilled but
not as Premier Ribot anticipated for
we can hardly presume he had such
absolutely lack of humanity as that.
Though foreseeing the failure of the
Russian offensive, he yet insisted upon
I, it, thinking it would give another
hours respite pending the entry Of
\ America into the war.
| THE enemy press endeavors to force
| upon my inaugural speech the inter
probation that l only consented to the
majority resolution with an ill-con-
cealed reservation of Germanys de-
sires for conquest. I am Obliged to
deny the imputation as to an object
| of which there can be no doubt. Be-
| sides, the resolution implies-which
| is quite clear--that the enemy must
also renounce any ideas of conquest"
| DR.. Michaelis added that it was man
| ifest that Germanys enemies were not
| in the least considering such denuncia-
ton, and that the French meeting
held in secret was fresh proof that her
enemies were responsible for the pro-
longation of the war and were "actu-
ated by lust of conquest"
THE conspicuousness of the justice
| of our defensive war;" the chancellor
concluded, will steel our strength and
determination in the future"