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Show oy s. I Ciemenceau Confident I Treaty Will Be Adopt- 1 1 ed by America. fl DEPUTIES APPLAUD I Americans Unwavering I i in Battle Exuected to Stand Firm. Jl PARlA. Sept. 26. Premier Clemen- ceau's remarkable address in the r fl chamber of deputies yesterday, in ' ! . vhich he asked for the ratification of 1 BSS ihe treaty of peace with Germany, traa , Um made on his seventy-eighth bllthdej If there was an impression that his ,1 ! w ords on the previous day during his i IRI ; colloquy with M Barthou were a slight I 'on America, the wav he spoke of the jjH admirable ImpetUOUSlty" with which America thing men into the battle- ' J lei J. showed that no slight was in- Lssssl llnmlorl BSSSSB Applause rr.ng through the chamber ', when the premier said: fl 'Would oti know my complete ! thoughts" should there be no written writ-ten treaty, I would count on America all the same. I can say we are firmly ' ' counting on the adoption of the treat 1 over there." j , I "1 have con young Amer.can- al 'the front," he continued, "and not i ne I of them, whether his origin was Ger-i Ger-i man. Italian, or Pole, wavered in the light When asked why they wer" j fighting the- replied: 'For liberty '" The premier recited how at one ensu the powera had decided whetner J I to defend Calais or Paris. "A few days later," he continue 1. I "Premier Lloyd George of Great Brit jain asked me what I had decided. I j replied. 'France made Paris. ParU 'made France. 1 would burn Tari- i" save France." Il Speech Full of Good Sense. FARIS, Sept. 26 (Havas) --Coji j menting on Premier Ciemenceau I speech in the chamber of deputies newspapers here generally remark ihe j tfl address was a clear presentation of th situation, full of good sense and I capable of giving the French confi dence in the destinies of Franc?, inducing in-ducing them to place the public wel-fan wel-fan above all in order to gain the I maximum benefits of the treaty. ( sierai newspapers note that M Ciemenceau gae an impression of treme fatigue and poke in poor form from an oratorical point of view. Oth- ers observe thai the problem raised Wednesday by M. Barthou, who asked ; what the position of France migh' be il if the United States should not ratify ' 'J the pence treaty, was not solved by H tbe premier's address. ' jfl |