26 APRIL 1919, Page 2

The, Daily Mail of Saturday last published an interview with

Marshal Foch. Marshal Foch stated unreservedly that in his belief, since the Rhine was the true defensive frontier of France, France ought to take German territory right up to that line. Here speaks the soldier, with absolute sincerity and conviction of course ; but every proper settlement must enlist the brains of the statesmen as well as those of the soldier. For the rest, the interview was interesting because Marshal Foch declared that if the war had been continued other victories would, of course, have been gained, but nothing would have been thus gained that was not as a matter of fact gained by the Armistice. That is an important judgment on a much-disputed point.