Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-16
RETURN Of SOIL
TAKEN WILL NOT
SATISFY FRANCE.
German Labor Should Restore
Homes and Equipment of
Commerce. as Before the
War; Says Edward de Billy.
By II. c. Rogers.)


IN. F. A. Staff Correspondents
Washington, Oct. 15.-France will
not be satisfied with any peace which
merely returns to her the ground
stolen by Huns.
Returning Alsace and Lorraine will
not be sufficient
Germany must give back her stolen
booty, as well as her stolen lands.
Germany must rebuild French fac
tories and homes. The Hun must
hand back northern France but she
must hand it back as nearly as she
found 1t in 1914.
This is the determination of the
French minds today as interpreted by
NJ. Edward de Billy, present head of
the French high commission to the
United States
In plain language, the Hun must
repair as well as restore.
| came to this understanding of the
french peace program during a talk
with Commissioner de Billy at the
high commissions Washington head
quarters.
Anything less than restoration
spells future ruin for France, the
commissioner believes.
Hold Germany for All Injury.
Germany must be held responsible
for all injury done to France, the PEG
pie of France and the industries of
France, excepting those injuries un-
avoidable in warfare Commissioner
de Billy declared
Frances peace terms show plainly
through this question asked by her
commissioner:
Shall we be content when we will
have sent them (the Germans) back
to their homes. and will not that war
be success for them. even without
any of the annexations they claim, if
when they retire they leave behind
them ruin that the power of pro-
duction of the world will not be able
to heal. except in SO long a period
that it means no. healing?
And will We not be entitled to in
sist that, from their own works and
factories, where so much of the equip
ment of our factories are now en-
ployed, the Germans should be com
PEELED to bring back all what is neces-
sary to put back things in the situa-
ton where they were before the dew
astation?
ut would be mere justice. 1t is,
besides, the only way of restoring life
at once in the devastated regions. 1t
ization of the aims of the war of the
allies who, in January. 1917, answered
to the demand of President Wilson
that they were fighting neither for
annexation nor for indemnties; that
they were fighting to defend them
selves, having been attacked: and
that their aims were threefold:
Preparation of damage done.
Restitution of what had been
robbed
Guarantees for the future"
Cataloes Hun Wantonness.
Nj. de Billy points out the long list
of unwarranted and wanton acts
committed by the Germans from the
first day they set foot on French soil
back at the start of the war.
He called attention to the efficient
method Germany pursued in stripping
French factories of all machinery and
destroying such machinery she could
not transport to Germany This was
done to ruin France after the war;
to make 1t impossible for France to
compete with German trade in the
markets of the world; to make France
an economic dependency of the Ger
man empire. All this machinery
stolen from French factories has been
sold TO Germans. and mos. of it now
is installed beyond the Rhine.
Before France can accept any
peace, the commissioner believes. she
must be guaranteed the return of this
machinery, else her commercial life
Is ruined Tor years, for as M. dc Billy
says German factories at this mo-
ment are prepared to start anew for
the trade conquest of the world, and
VIII begin the lninuta nance comes
France cannot get her industries back