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Show FRANCUHSiSTS PACT BE HULLED PREMIER POINCARE SENDS NOTES TO AMBASSADORS SETTING FORTH POSITIQN Teuton Delegation Declares Flatly Couptry Will Not Withdraw From Treaty Concluded With Russia Paris. Instructions sent by Premier Pre-mier Poineare to the French ambassadors ambassa-dors In the capitals of the allies and fully approved by the cabinet, are to Insist that energetic measures must be taken and penalties applied to Germany if the Russo-German treaty is not abrogatted, regardless of what the Genoa conference may decide. The premier's position is that there can be no more hesitation in the execution ex-ecution of the treaty of Versailles. He holds that the concessions of the allies to Germany has led to further resistance to the Versailles treaty on the park of the latter Premier Poincaire has held consultations consul-tations with leaders of all parties in the last two days, besides keeping the cabinet in close touch with the situation. situa-tion. Conservative nationalists and liberal lib-eral elements are said to have given the premier to undertsand they would support his view. It was pointed out that the Kusso-Germnn Kusso-Germnn treaty had brought to light violations of the Versailles pact by Germany In respect to military materials, mater-ials, the German having, it appears, sold the arms which the Russian refugees refu-gees had left in Germany instead of handing them over to the allied commission com-mission for destruction, as provided by the Versailles treaty. (Article 1 of the Russo-German treaty, at the end of clause C reads. "The Russian government renounces payment of the sum Germany has derived de-rived from the sale of Russian army material transported into Germany.") Already there is muen speculation concerning the penalties to be imposed upon Germany, as it is consdiered most probable that some action of this sort will be taken. The occupation occupa-tion of the Ruhr valley is the foremost fore-most suggestion, although there is authoritative opinion that the allies are unlikely to adopt the precise penalty pen-alty which the Germans most expect and are perhaps best prepared to meet. The financial and economic penalties provided for in the treaty, it is argued, would permit the allies to bring pressure of the most effective effec-tive sort at much less cost and trouble trou-ble than extension of the military occupation. |