The French Chamber an Thursdays. March 17th, approved of the
decisions of the London conference on reparation by 491 votes to 66. M. Briand reminded ,the Chamber that Germany had failed to carry out the Peace Treaty, by not disarming, by not dealing with the war criminals, and by not delivering the agreed amount of coal, and by net paying £1,000,000,000 which is due before May 1st. The Allies, he said, were thoroughly and whole-heartedly united in their determination to enforce the Treaty. The anxious critics who objected that Germany was being treated too leniently were assured that the military experts approved of what had been done. M. Briand has not, like Mr. Lloyd George, to deal with, any friends of Germany ; the French Opposition is all for stiffening the terms of the Peace Treaty, which it regards as absurdly generous.
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