19 JANUARY 1918, Page 2

hL Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, told the Chamber on

Friday week that the war aims of France were identical in spirit and substance with those expounded for America and Great Britain by President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd Jaeorge. "We are resolved," he eat, "to obtain a peace- of justice, consaoreted as regards the question of Alsace-Lorraine by the restoration pure and simple of the right violated in 1871, a right superior to all combinations of plebiscitary dupery." As for Russia, the Anarchists had deserted France, Russia's old and faithful ally, and had sent an insulting reply to the French Socialist message to them. M. Pichon thought that it would be imprudent to rely upon the Anarchists to insist upon their peace proposals, or to make good their threat to carry on a revolutionary war if the enemy remained obstinate. M. Pichon refused to recognize the Anarchists or to issue passports to Russia for French Socialists. "You ask us to put our heads into this wasps' nest ? No, we shall not do so."