The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-16
FRANCE GLUED
 TO VERSAILLES PACT, PREMIER
Declares Paris Determined To Exact Every Penny Of 112,000,O0O,OOO Gold Marks Owed By Germany POlNCARE SAYS NO MORE CONCESSIONS TO BE MADE Britain Mildly Criticised For Failure To Back Up France In Her Iron Fist Policy Against The Germans

SENLIS, France, July 15.-(By As sociated Premier Poincare to- day proclaimed the French govern ment's unalterable decision resolute- ly to stand for the complete execu- ton of the Versailles peace treaty with the German debt at 112, ,000, 000,- = Vo0 gold marks, as agreed upon by the allies at the London conference.
 M. Poincare said France was done with making concessions to Germany. She was tired of temporizing with that country. The premiers strongly worded address, while carefully re Training from mentioning the speech of Stanley Baldwin, the British prime minister, in the House of Commons last week, is considered as the French governments preliminary an sWer to the British position with re- gard to the occupation of the Ruhr.
 M. Poincare chose for his pro- nouncement this town, which marks the farthest advance of the Germans and where the latter executed host ages, placed civilians in the line of the French fire and burned part of the town in reprisal against alleged civil resistance. The premier based his conclusions on France legal right under the treaty signed by 2S nations and which cannot be con sidered after four years as all ante deluvian fossil"
 No Spirit Of Revenge.
 M. Poincare professed to> have no hatred and no spirit of revenge for the devastation, the traces of which were visible from where he spoke. We should like no longer to talk of devastation or to think of it, he declared. We should like to for get--even to forgive"
 FYance, said M. Poincare, has been no better treated in separations than if| the concessions i'rung from her and the security denied her.
 Tn the reparations commission es- tablished under the treaty." he said, we are in the minority, although ours is the major interest. Neverthe- less, it has been sought for four years to relieve this commission of it's powers, to replace 1t with inter- national financial committees so as to attempt to coalesce against inter- ests opposed to ours.
 The peace treaty, the premier con tnued, established conditions under which the commission should fix the German debt. There was pretense of respecting those conditions" he added, but the debt hardly had been fixed when there was imposed upon us in one of those supreme councils. where we always left behind us some of our rights, q schedule of payment that the commission accepted reluc- tantly and which reduce our claim in undetermined proportions We then accepted this schedule of pay ment as an international convention, as an engagement of honor pledged to us.
 "A few months later" Premier Poin care asserted, this schedule was questioned as certain of our friends seemed no longer to have any other thought than to tighten the German debt and as they themselves were our creditors we told them: There are three kinds of bonds provided for Let us keep our part of the first two. As for the third, we will use them against Germany only in proportion as our creditors ask us to pay our debts.' Still We were found too eXacting."
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 Says Germany Prosperous.
 The premier said France was re- preached for not having sufficient regard for Germany and for expos ing her to disaster that would affect all other nations
 And yet" he declared, "has not Germany been so well looked after during three whole years that she
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