Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-03
POINCARE IN WAR
THREAT ON BERLIN
Declares France Is Ready to En-
force Treaty Alone.
MUST PAY OR FIGHT MAY 81
VIII 3olt Farley at Genoa II Terms
Are Not Kept, Although Nation
Is Anxious TO Carry On As
Participant.

Barbecue, France, April 20
France will, IL necessary, undertake
alone 10 see that the treaty Of Yer
sailles Is executed II the Germans de-
fault In their reparat ons payments,
Premier Poincare lntimated In a speech
before the genera council of the de-
partment OF the Meuse.
May 81, when the Germans must
either accept the conditions laid down
by the reparutions commission or de-
fault In their payment. would be an
important date for France, said the
premier. IL was Frances duty, he
added. in full independence" 10 as
Ime the duty - maintaining the In
tegrity Of the Versailles convention.
Peace Hangs on Treaty.
"All we have ever asked, and oil 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 II. Our
future and our national prosperity de-
ponds upon IL.
ut Is not by precipitate action or by
decisions without reflection that we
shall obtain IL. II Is by perseveriag
and methodical action. But IL must
be done"
The premier declared he ardently
hoped for the cooperation OF the al
lies In case Germany defaulted. But.
according 10 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 Il that our unfortunate cOun-
try succumb under the burden Of
reparatiOns alongside of n Germany
that does not consent TO make the
necessary effort to discharge her
debts.
1--WE shall defend, in full independ-
ence. the French cause. and we shall
not abandon any arms the treaty gives
US"
Replies to Militarism Charge.
Referring TO the charges of mill
tarism and Imperialism made against
France, NJ. Poincare said:
"The Imperialism Of France Is a cur
rent theme I'm some countries. I'm 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 Rapello accord (the Russo-German
treaty.. the imprudence there would
be I'm our disarming too rapidly.
"That accord brings out into the full
light the sympathies which had devel-
Oped I'm the darkness between the Boil
sheviki and the Germans. Not many
persons. wrested srom 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"
NJ. 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 n 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 IL 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, "singularIy con-
firms all we knew of the state OF
mind OF too great a portion OF the
empire. How long hack had Germany
prepared the treaty with the SOVIET
government and are we sure the treaty
has been entirely published? Is II or is
Il not accompanied by secret clauses?
Is IL simply a shield for political and
military conventionsT
Premier Poincare announced that II
the French delegation at Genoa could
not 90 ahead with its work under the
agreed conditions France would regret
fully have TO cease participation In the
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