Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-24
FRENCH THREATEN.
T0QU|T AT GENOA
IF PLANS D|GRESS
Premier Poincare Warns
Parley Must Continue Un-
der Agreed Conditions.
SAYS COUNTRY is READY
TO ENFORCE PACT ALONE

VIII unoert8Ke TO carry Uut Ner-
sailles Treaty if Germans De-
fault on Reparations.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April IA Central
News dispatch from Genea to-
day sayss
"It II learned unoMeially that
the reds (soyiet Russian rep
reseatatives) are negotiating q
secret treaty with Hungary CIV
Ing mutual support against Ru-
mania and the littIe entente"
BAR-LE-DUc, April 24.-Premier
Pofncare announced in a speech here
today that IL the French delegation
at Genoa could not 60 ahead with its
work under the agreed conditions
France would regretfully have to
cease participation in the conference.
France will, II necessary, undertake
/ alone to see that the treaty Of Yer
saiiles is executed II the Germans
default in their reparations payments.
Premier Poincare intimated. in
speech before the general council of
the department of the Meuse today.
The 31st OF May. when the Germans
must either accept the conditions laid
down by the reparations commission
or default In their payment, 10 an
important date for France. said the
premier. 1t is Frances duty. he add
ed, 'in full independence" to assume
the duty of maintaining the integrity
of the treaty.
Insists o. Treaty Terms.
'All we have ever asked and all we
ask today Is the execution of the
treaty" said NJ Poincare. land that
We must have and shall have. The
peace of Europe depends upon it.
| Our future and our national pros
perity depend upon it.
1T Is not by precipitate action or
by decisions without reflection that
we will obtain it. 1t is by perseyering
and methodical action. But it must
| be done"
| The premier, declared he ardently
| hoped for the cooperation of the al
lies in case Germany defaulted. "but
| according to the terms Of the treaty."
/ he, added. each may In case of need
| take, respectively, such measures as
are deemed necessary, and we shall
not suffer 1t that one unfortunate
country succumb under the burden OF
reparations alongside OF a Germany
that does not consent to make the
necessary effort to discharge her
debts.
I'VE shall defend, in full indepen-
not abandon any arms the treaty
gives us."
Answers Imperialism Charge.
Referring to the charges Of mill
tarism and Imperialism made against
France. N. Poincarc said:
THE Imperialism of France is a
| current theme in some countries. in
which we are charged with ulterior
motives of conquest / do not know
of single French public man who
has ever dreamed of territorial an
nexation. But who does not under
stand today after the Rapallo accord
tthe Russo German treaty. the i'm
prudence there would be in our dis
arming too rapidly.
That accord brings out into the
full light the sympathies which had
developed in the darkness between
the bolsheviki and the Germans. How
many persons wrested from their con-
fidence of yesterday will not now ad-
init that the cabinet was right in de-
string to insist for the moment on
eighteen months military services?
Sees Armed Danger.
NJ. Poincare referred to the discov-
cries Of stocks of arms and munitions
in Silesia, the formation of police or
ganixations in Germany composed of
former non-commissioned officers,
which he said we're SO easily trans
formed into a framework of military
force. He instanced these things, as
well as the pan-German agitation, to
justify the precautions Of France.
Things are going in Germany" he
said, las IL the pan-Germans were
watching for an opportunity to 10
ment trouble. sooner or later, on their
eastern frontier, with a view to get
ting back by force the. Polish regions
taken from Germany by the treaty
Of Versailles.
"Whet is going on at Genoa" con-
| tinued the premier. "singularly con-
firms ali we knew Of the state OF mind
OF too great a portion OF the empire.
! How long back had Germany pre-
| pared the treaty with the soviet gov
ernment?"
GrinIy Set to Work.
| Once more today the gyrating Ge-
noa conference. which has been al
ternating between fears and hopes,
! and punctuated with political crises
which threatened to destroy It alto-
eether, set itself grimly to the task
of readjusting the economical life
of Europe.
| The announcement. by the German
| delegates last night that they would
not reply to the allies second note.
because they did not wish to endan-
| ger the success. OF the conference,
| was received everywhere with frank
ly uttered words of relief, for almost
everybody was beginning to despair
secretly that the conference, would
end IN economic achievement. In all
quarters today were heard words of
| praise for the patient efforts of the
italian leaders to re-establish, ehar-
mony SO that the conference might
! concentrate upon the constructive
problems for which 1t was organized.
Russia to De Discussed.
| Six subcommissIons were scheduled
/ to hold meetings today. and the COM
| mittee of experts on the Russian
question made plans to take up seri-
atm the report on the reconstruction
Of Russia prepared by the allied ex-
| ~.>k q. T4uAnn Tfis -.