The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-04-28
PO|NCARE IN WAR
THREAT ON ERL|N
Declares France Is Ready to En-
force Treaty Alone.
MUST PAY OR FIGHT MAY 81
Will Bolt Farley at Genoa il Terms
Are Not Kept, Although Nation
Is Anxious to Carry On As
Participant.

Barbecue, France, April 25.-
France will, if necessary, undertake
alone to see that the treaty of Yer
sailles is executed if the Germans de-
fault in their reparat ons payments,
Premier Poincare intimated in speech
before the genera council of the de-
partment of the Mouse.
May 81, when the Germans must
either accept the conditions laid down
by the PREPARATIONS commission or de-
fault in their payment, would be an
important date for France, said the
premier. 1t was Frances duty, he
| added, "in full independence" to as
| cume the duty 80 maintaining the in
tegrity of the Versailles convention.
Peace Hangs on Treaty.
| "All we have ever asked and all we
ask today, is the execution Of the
treaty." said M. Poincare, land that
we must have and shall have. The
peace Of Europe depends upon it. Our
future and our national prosperity de-
ponds upon it.
ut is not by precipitate action or by
decisions without reflection that we
shall obtain it. 1t is by persevering
| 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, leach may in case of need
| take, respectively, such measures as
| are deemed necessary, and we shall
| not suffer it that our unfortunate cOun-
| try succumb under the burden of
| PREPARATIONS alongside of Germany
| that does not consent to make the
necessary effort to discharge her
| debts.
"We shall defend, in full independ-
ence, the French cause, and we shall
not abandon any arms the treaty gives
u.s."
Replies to Miltarism Charge.
Referring to the charges of mill
tarfsm and Imperialism made against
| France, NJ Poincare said:
1.-THE Imperialism of France is a cur
| rent theme in some countries, in which
we are charged with Interior motives
| of conquest. do not know of a single
| French public man who has ever
| dreamed of territorial annexation. But
who does not understand today, after
| the Rapello accord (the Russo-German
treaty., the imprudence there would
be in our disarming too rapidly.
oof hriY ir1fo thn fI3lI
light the sympathies which had devel-
oped in the darkness between the Boil
sheviki and the Germans. Not many
persons, wrested from their confidence
Of yesterday, will not now admit that
the cabinet was right in desiring to
insist for the moment On eighteen
months military service"
M. Poincare referred to the dis
coveries of stocks of arms and NUM-
lions in SileSia, the formation of police
organizations in Germany composed of
former nOncommissioned officers.
which, he said were so easily trans
formed into framework of military
force. He instanced these things, as
well as the pan-German agitation, to
justify the precautions Of France.
Fears Coup Against Poland.
Things are going in Germany" he
said, ''as if the pan-Germans were
watching for an opportunity to foment
trouble sooner or later, on their
eastern frontier, with a view to getting
back by force the Polish regions taken
from Germany by the treaty of Yer
sailies.
"What is going on at Genoa" con-
tinued the premier, "singularly con-
firms all we knew of the state Of
mind of too great a portion Of the
empire How long back had Germany
prepared the treaty with the SOVIET
government and are we sure the treaty
has been entirely published? Is it or is
it not accompanied by secret clauses?
Is it simply shield for political and
military conventions?
Premier Poincare announced that If
the French delegation at Genoa could
not go ahead with it's work under the
agreed conditions France would regret
fully have to cease participation in the
conference.