Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-07
Cleaned from Foreign Ex.
changes

The German spirit is Unchanged.
German militarism is not dead
Ebert, the Socialist President. fol-
lows the methods of Bismarck, the In
perial Chan, c!lor The new Germany
is to be cemented, it's wounds to be
healed, its unity restored by aggres-
sive nationalism.
That seems to be the real meaning
of the attack on the Poles. The revolt
of the defeated enemy for such it is,
should serve as a sharp warning
against the tasy-going methods now
favored in Paris.
The original armistice terms made
no effective provision for dealing with
the Eastern problem, and the Germans
have seized The first opportunity to
take advantage OF the loophoIe
They probably hoped t. profit by
the dilatory methods of the Peace
Conference. the demobjLzaticn of the
Allied Armies and the rand slacFen-
! ing Of military tension in the Allied
| countries. anil, if not to carry off their
couD-that they could hardly have ex-
Dected-at least to SOW the seed of
future trouble.
! For internal reasons they fomented
! the conflict in order 10 stimulate a
| bitter national feeling against the
| Poles and the Allies as on antidote to
| their own brand of Bolshevisn.
M. Louchepr, the Frenci, Minister
| for Industrial Reconstruction gave a
/ painful account of the sitrlat IN in the
| Department du Nord and OF the Pas
i de Calais during a Senate discussion
| says a French wireless message.
/ with regard to these regions" he
said. I'VE find ourselves confronted
| with a task more Formidable than the
| world has ever Yet seen We shall be
obliged to spend IS miIliards 3,000,-
| G00,000l.
Mine pits to the number of 101
| have been. completely demolished. but
| l hope that. with extreme good luck
! and with hard work, W. shall be able
: TO extract from them 3,0}6 tons of coal
! bv the end Of 1919 GneFead of * 600
tons which were formerly extracted)
| The reparation of the mines will
| cost more Cjan two mil lards (ove1
| G 0.00o 000). It will require at least
| 10 years. rs to the fCCtC! les there
! are no raw materials, ard the ma
| chimes have been demolished The
task is superhuman.
In the matter alone &c the machines
| which have been carried away by the
Germans ami dispersed throughout
! Germany il has been necessary tc
make 100. COS dossiers. Forty thous-
and wagons a year at Ieas: will be
! needed to bring back Tire machines.
Tt has taken generations to create
what has baen destroyed. Il will re
quire years TO build UP these ruins
again
Lord Robert Cecil said it had beer
a pleasure TO serve with such colleageS
on the Commission. and kut for the
common purpose and common devo-
tion to thai purpose it would have
been impossible 70 accomplish the
task in the time allotted,
I'VE have sought to safeguard The
peace Of the world hy establishing
certain principles. The first end chic
! is that no nation shall go to war unit
every other possible means of settling
a dispute has been fully and fairl!
| tried
Secondly, under no circumstances
shall any nation seek forcihly to dis
| turb a territorial settlement to be-
arrived at as a consequence of thi.
| peace or to interfere with the politica
Independence Of any OF the states il
| the world
Those are the two great preceptt
we seek to lay down for the govern.
| ment of international relations and W.
have recognized that if these princi
pies are really to be acted upon W.
must so one step further and lay /
down that no nation mist retain al
armament on a scale fitted only 70
aggressive purposes.
Finally W. thought that if tn
world is to ne at peace it is no
enough to fOrbid war. We must d,
something more. We must try to sub