Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-04-28
PO|NCARE IN WAR
THREAT ON BERLIN
Declares France Is Ready to En-
force Treaty Alone.
MUST PAY OR FIGHT MAY 81
Will Bolt Farley at Genoa If Terms
Are Not Kept, Although Nation
Is Anxious to Garry 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 PREPARATIONS payments,
Premier Poincare intimated in speech
| before the general council of the de-
partment of the Mouse.
May 81, when the Germans must
either accept the conditions laid down
by the reparations commission or de-
fault in their payment. would be an
important date for France, said the
premier 1t was Frances duty, he
added, sin full independence" to as
sumo the duty of maintaining the in
tegrity of the Versailles convention.
Peace Hangs on Treaty.
"Aii we have ever asked, and all we
ask today, Is the execution of the
treaty" said M. Poincare, "and that
we must have and shall have. The
peace of Europe depends upon 1t. Our,
future and our national prosperity de-
pend upon it.
sit 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"
Hopes for Allies Aid.
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 our unfortunate coun-
try succumb under the burden of
reparations alongside Of a 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 shalt
not abandon any arms the treaty gives
u.s."
Replies to MlItarism Charge.
Referring to the charges of mill
tarism and Imperialism made against
France, M. Poincare said:
"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 single
French public man who has ever
dreamed of territorial annexation. But
who does not understand today. after
the Rapallo accord (the Russo-German
treaty. the imprudence there would
be in our disarming too rapidly
"That accord brings out in.o the full
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-
! tions in Silesia, the formation Of police
organizations in Germany composed of
| former non-commissioned officers,
which he said were 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.
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 view to getting
back by force the Polish regions taken
from Germany by the treaty of YER
sailles.
"What Is going on at Genoa" con-
tinued the premier, "singularly con-
firms all we knew of the state of
mind Of too great 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
1t not accompanied by secret clauses?
Is 1t simply a shield for political and
military conventionsY'
Premier POincare announced that If
the French delegation at Genoa could
not go ahead with its work under the
agreed conditions France would regret
fully have to cease participation In the
conference.
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