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Show ; FRANCE UNWILLING TQ PROPOSE PEACE POINCAIRE SAYS FIGHT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL GERMANS SUE FOR PEACE. Declares That France Does Not Want Germany to Tender Peace, But Wants Her Adversary to Ask for Peace. Naury. President I'oincaire, in an address here Sunday, responded to Germany's declaration regarding peace contained in the German reply to the American note. "France does not want Germany to tender peace." said the president, "but wants her adversary to ask for peace." The president then made known clearly the only kind of peace acceptable accept-able to France. The address was delivered de-livered at (he Moltitor garrison before be-fore a large number of Lorraine refugees, refu-gees, to whom ihe president, after expressing ex-pressing his sympathies and renewing promises of solicitude and protection, said: "France will not expose her sons to the dangers of new aggressions. The central empires, haunted by remorse for having brought on the war, are terrified by the indignation and hatred they have stirred up in mankind, are trying today to make the world believe be-lieve that the entente allies alone are responsible for the prolongation of hostilities a dull irony which will deceive de-ceive none. ' Neither directly nor indirectly have our enemies offered us peace. But we do not want them to offer it to us; we want them to ask it of us. We do not want to submit to their conditions, condi-tions, we want to impose ours on them. We do not want a peace which would leave imperial Germany with the power to recommence the war and keep Europe eternally menaced. We want peace which receives from restored re-stored rights serious guarantees of equilibrium and stability. "So long as that peace is not assured as-sured to us; so long as our enemies will not recognize themselves as vanquished, van-quished, we will not cease to fight." |