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Show FRENCH REASON FOR PUNISHING HUNS TOLD PROVIDENCE, R. I., Kcb. 24 A defense de-fense of France In ber determination to wring, from Germany a huge repara-1 tion was made by A. C. Bedford, chair man of the board of directors of the! Standard Oil company of Xcw Jersey1 In an address before the chamber of commerce here. "The French people, I have known t since boyhood," said Mr. Bedford, "and I 'have never seen them so united lnl ono emotion aa in tholr passionate j zeal to snatch tho mask from (Jormanyi and to rcvenl her, not oa the broken! bankrupt, struggling vainly to dlB-! charge her honoHt debts, but ae Franco believes her to be tho crafty defaulter default-er and despoller, Intent on winning by doeelt what, tdie failed to take from her enemies by force of arms. "The French fool I hat Germany Is lutact and has in leash a powerful commercial machine which at the 4 proper time will spring into action as did hxr military machine in 1914, and win recapture Europe's commercial prestige while her enemies are laboriously labor-iously rebuilding their industrial organization. or-ganization. They see Germany as it was before the war, with scarcely a stone overturned, with her exchanges favorable to the- resumption of foreign trade, and with her lust for world dom inatlon only sharpened by her military disaster." |