New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Reparation
PARIS. October 81.


The fuu tert Of the Senate's una~s
mous resolution permitting the govsrss
ment TO make plans for obtaining repo-
ration for damage committed By the Ger
mans reads:
"The Senate, confirming it's former de-
liberatons, and resolved to assure to the
population liberated by the magnificent
victories of the Allied armies all repara-
ton for damages for devastation and for
attempts upon the rights of man COM
mitted by the enemy, now approves Of
the government for having clearly signi-
fed its decision to impose the necessary
penalties and invites it to continue to
this end with the Allied governments and
to pursue it's inquests in view Of arriv-
ing at condemnation of the authors re-
sponsible for these misdeeds-justice
being above all the first condition Of
peace"
Stephen Pichon, the Foreign Minister,
aUho introduced the resolution, SAID.
''The government strongly adheres to
the resolution which has just been pre-
sentod. 1t will adhere more voluntarily
in that manifestation of the Senate and
will give it new force to insist that it is
in accord with and has not waited for
the invitation, which is addressed 10 IT,
to make known to Germany that she will
be held fully responsible for crimes which
she has committed or will commit on our
territory.
I'VE have informed her in solemn
warning that she will not escape an
inexorable expiation. This warming
repeat to her to-day from the high trb-
une Of the Senate. 1t has been given
besides in the decision of President VIII
son in his admirable reply TO the PROPOSE
tion for an armistice which he received
from Berlin. The illustrious President
of the United States in these resolutions,
in whom we always had entire confidence,
has signitied that he refuses, like u.s. to
negotiate for suspension Of arms with
state whose armies continue to dshonof
themselves by acts of desolation OF DE-
vastation and of savagery that are violar
tions of the fundamental laws Of human
society.
This Is the first act of placing re-
sponsibility incurred by authors of crimes
from which France has so cruelty sui'
fered but for which chastisement ap-
proaches. 1t will not be with impunits
that our unhappy compatriots Of invaded
territory, to whom send the salute o!
nation united and decided to svengs
them, have been martyrized, that theif
properties have been destroyed, thai
their cities and villages have been devas-
tased, that their monuments and churches
have been reduced to dust, that theif
trees have been cut down and theif
fields ravaged, that they have been torn
from their homes and depCsted as hoss-
ages in defiance of written engagements
contracted by these butchers themselves.
For all these abominable misdeeds
there will be other penalties than the
moral condemnation already pronounced.
There will be material justice We viii
not permit that the responsibility under
which they labor shall be impudentF
evaded as they would now seek-they
who in the blind rage of their defeat DO
not calculate the results of their acts
and their retreat is multiplying their
atrocities before the victorious liberating
march of our armies.
I'VE, with our allies. will take care thai
to the end the work of justice is accom-
plished in order that there shall forever
disappear from world built upon righs
all possibility of return to similar mon
strosities."