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Show CLEMENCEAU STRIKES BACK AT SENATE CRITICS ! DARES SENATOR HITCHCOCK TO GO TO FRANCE Tiger Declares There Are' No Black Troops in Germany. GIVES OUT INTERVIEwj Clemenceau Pleased Over; Reception Given Him By Boston. BOSTON. Nov 24. (By the Associated As-sociated Press. ) The Tiger of Franco I lashed back at his senate critics today to-day in his first American Interview'! granted to the Associated Press, replying re-plying particularly to the criticisms! ' Senators Hi'. h.ock and Borah I "Senator Hitchcock calls me a j militarist." Clemenceau. French war. premier, said. "Well, 1 am glad to tell Mr Hitchcock he is ln tho senate owing to tho vote for only a few' j more days When he Is free, I dnro I him to go to France and learn tho' Answering Senator Hlt beech's demand de-mand that ho explain why France In-j In-j slsted oft using black troops ln her army of occupation, the Tiger dc- la red that Hitchcock had been misled mis-led by German propaganda and that I today there was not a single black soldier ln German territory To Senator Borah's recent assertion that Clemenceau was primarily responsible re-sponsible for conditions In Europe be- LUSe of his great Influence ln iho drafting of the Versailles treaty, the aged statesman declared his situation I was "particularly distressing," since In France he had been most bitterly criticised "for having asked from tho I Germans less than I ought to." When he was told that some of thc (senators at Washington had said they Were not able to understand clearly 'from his speeches Just what he wanted want-ed of America, the Tiger said with a I gleam In his eye that he thought they 'would know after his address this af-'ternoon af-'ternoon tho second formal speech of his American tour. READ! FOR ;RILL. j Clemenceau received his lntervlew-i lntervlew-i ers in his room at the homo of F L. Hlgglnson. Jr He wore his usual gray rut-away suit, and his gray skull cap was perched on his bald head. Seating Seat-ing himself ln a huge easy chair, ho said: "Now put any questions you like, and I will answer them " The Interviewers went at once to tho subject of the Washington criticisms. criti-cisms. Clemenceau smllca and shrugged. shrug-ged. I had made It a point not to dis- uss with official people In America " he said, "but i have said i will answer an-swer all, so I must answer." "I am glad to tell Mr Hitchcock he is ln the senate only a few more days owing to tho vote," ho began, referring to thc Nobraskan's defeat for re-election. 'Therefore, I think I'll bo excused If I dare him to go to I Europe and If he finds anyono In my I country or elsewhere who says I have been a militarist then I'll own It " hkmi-aS hp: is militaristic. "I have suffered much from 1871 i to 1917 for not being a militarist to 'the extent of extending the length of (military service In France. Hut that wasn't too bad. If it al-! al-! lowed us to oppose the German front 1 until England and America nppcai- !cd " Asked to answer Hitchcock's question ques-tion about black troops, the Tiger said "bon" and waded In. NO BLACK TROOPS. 'In tho first place there are no ; black troops of occupation In tho area I of occupation of tho enemy. In the Set ond place, I have seen black American Am-erican troops at the front, and they stood the fire with bravery, too." "i if course, this has nothing to do I with the question of whether vve are i militarists or not. It Is an attempt of German propaganda to oppose Francw and America and obscure what Is really the great question "Tho Germans and all of our foes hud been killing enough of our white men. and 100,000 black men fell gallantly gal-lantly fighting on tho frontiers of 'liberty' as Woodrow Wilson called them We are not going to deny them a place in history "Now those black soldiers were always al-ways more or less occupying towns ln France and always got along perfectly per-fectly with the white French people. Even. I should say their discipline is stricter thun any white troops "So I have seen articles of German Ger-man propaganda which I suppose Inspired In-spired Mr. Hitchcock's saying and I can plainly say they are so many lies." "Tho day before I left Parl3 I heard that these stories would be employed to prove we were a militaristic peo- (Contimicil on Page Two) HTCKG0GK TO GO TOFRAHEX (Continued from Page One.) pie. So I asked the official people to give me plain information ON); WOMAN MRTKi; ATED. "The answer was that there waa only one established caso of a Senegalese Sen-egalese having mistreated a German ; woman Ho was sentenced by a military mil-itary tribunal. Th reason black troops were sent j Into tho occupation zone at first Cle-Imenceau Cle-Imenceau said, was to provide a few moths of home leave for the white ! troops, "that had stood the fire for ; years until America could como, and were rather excited." "We couldn't foresee' ho said, "that It would be moro objectionable to tho Germans than to tho French In whose towns thy had been garrisoned. W hen w.- learned it was, they were withdrawn. with-drawn. "The German objection was moro of a surprise because they employed blaek troops and if they did not bring them to tho front It was because no means of bringing them could be found. They did find means to invade in-vade Belgian Congo with blacks." u tBAH As ERED, Then tho Tiger came to Senator Borah's statement that Clemenceau was responsible for most of Europe's I woes because of the treaty of Versailles. Ver-sailles. Declaring that the criticism was exactly ex-actly the opposite in his own country coun-try .where he was assailed for not demanding enough, ho continued: "Let those who say I asked too much go to Europe let them bring helr German friends, and let US settle set-tle It there whero It can bo seen. "Moreover, if too much was asked' at Versailles, which I do not believe, yet 76 per cent of it has been taken out without my' assent and out of my power." Ending tho Interview. M. Clemenceau Clemen-ceau declared his reception in America had bc-en "greater than I was entitled to expect." "I was received as a friend, as a son," he said. "Whatever happens in the end I never shall forget It " Then he added: "But whllo expressing my deep gratitude to all. I dare say I'd like to have a little moro plain assent to some of my arguments " '1 ItxJK J A l r . Georges Clemenceau, war premier of Fran' e, was up at dawn today, putting the finishing touches on the second formal address of his American Amer-ican tour, which ho will deliver this afternoon In Tremont temple. Seated before his inevitable pot of cold tea, with his batteerd gray skull cap at a rakish angle, he worked for more than an hour on his notes at a small table In the homo of F. L, HigginSOn, Jr Whit he does with the notes after he has prepared them no one knows. He never refers to them when he Is speaking, but he always makes them. I:, freshed by his nicht's sleep, the Tlper appear! 1 even more Jubilant today than Thursday over the enthusiastic en-thusiastic reception given him by Boston and cities between here and New York. He declared that .en If his "mission" "mis-sion" of winning American hearts for t'Ya nco failed which he was confident confi-dent it would not he always would treasure tho memories of tho welcome he had had on this "last mission of his life." ONE SPEECH TODAY There was nothing on the Tiger's program for today except the speech. But what he would do no one in his party could say Thursday he declared de-clared he had wanted to see Bunker Hill oyer since his visit to America 57 years ago and it was not improbable im-probable that he would summon Colonel Stephen Bonzal, tour con-du con-du tor, and demand to be taken thore. Tain uil Hall, "The Cradlo of Liberty" whs another point he hoped to visit He has t 11 Invited to two football games on Saturday, the T'.rown-Dart-mouth Kamo at Cambridge, and the Yale-Harvard gome at New Haven. He wants to .ree both, but it is uncertain un-certain whether he. will be able to attend either. The Tiger's Interest in American universities, keen from the start, was rr.-itly augmented Thursday when he saw and heard cheering sec tions from Yale and Brown in action as he led through Hew Haven and Providence. Provi-dence. "It makes me think of the old days when j was a school boy." ho said. 00 Muftis of 1ho Ottoman empire are civil and relirion. functionaries of towns who manage- tho property of the church and settle nt-arly every legal and privato dispute. |