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Show Defends Treaty as Just. PAKIS, May 14. (Eavas.) Sneaking today at a banquet of the Republican committee on commerce, agriculture and industry, Louis Nail, minister of Justice, said that the taxing of the people and also requisitioning had been ended in I France. Dealing with the peace treaty, the minister added: "Our enemies, who are protesting violently vio-lently against clauses of tKe treaty, forget that they deliberately started the war, ruined ten French departments and killed a million and a half of Frenchmen. No punishment would bo severe enough if the justice due the allies was demanded to the limit. The Versailles treaty, however, is not written In the spirit of conquest and hatred." |