THREE POWERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 7

THREE POWERS.

KING, TSAR, AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENT

M. FALLIERES'S VISIT. RECEPTION BY CHANNEL FLEET. »t Tjir.iaiurn—pbess association—coftrioht. (R-ec. May 25, 10.25 p.m.) ' i Lontian, May 25. President Eallieres, of Franoe, will arrive in Great Britain to-day. He will be conveyed by the French armoured cruiser Leon Gambott-a (12,351 tons) to Dover, whero ho will ho received by the Channel Fleet, con-, sistiug of 50 vessels and 17,544 men. Prince Arthur of Connaught, eldest son of the Duke of Connaught, and Aide-de : Camp to the King, will personally rccoive , the French President at> Dover. Preparations are being made for a great reception in London. King Edward, the Prince of. Wales, tho Prime Ministor (Sir. Asquith), and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. (Sir Edward Grey) will receive M. Fallieres at Victoria Railway Station. Tho President will reside at St. James's Palace. : ' ' FRANCE AND RUSSIA. TSAR WILL VISIT PARIS, PERHAPS LONDON. (Rec. May 25, 10.25 p.m.) St. Potersburg, May 25. President Fallieres and the Tsar will meot on July 24. Tho Tsar later on will visit- Paris, and probably London. BRITAIN AND THE DUAL ALLIANCE. Though no longer occupied by the Sovereign, St. James's Palace gives its name officially to the British Court. I Situated in London, thePalace was adapted as a royal residence by Henry V111,'7 and was ! enlarged by Charles I. It ivas\ damaged by fire in ISO 9, and was after-, wards restored. Tho pictureequo brick gate towards St. James's Street, and the interesting presence-chainlber, date .from JScnry. VIII,: as does.tho chapel,-which is known.as tho Chapel Eoyal., The apartments ef state aro splendidly decorated. • ';i ■ ■ Following on the French President's visit to Britain; King Edward is expected to sail (on June' 3) for the Baltic to meet the Tsar at Reval.' According to to-day's advices, the Tsar and the President are to meet on July 24,, and later on the Tsar will visit Paris; and perhaps, return, the' King's visit, by going to London. .The King, however, according to a cablegram of May 22, will not land in Russia when he visits the Baltic. "An exchange of courtesies will occur on board the Royal yachts." A London cablegram of May 21 stated that "the fact that King sailing on,tho evening of 1 June 3," as 'soon is is convenient after the visit of M. Fallieres, French President, is commented on.". On May 18 Berlin' cabled 1 that "German .publicists warn' the Government : that .' General Sir : lan Hamilton visited St. Petersburg t» arrange an Anglo-' French-Russian'' military convention aimed at Germany." . ■" , M. Armtuid Fallieres, elected to the Presidency January 17, 1906, in succession to' M. Loubot, was born- at Mezin (Lot-et-Garonnc), November 6, 1841. • Hi is ft-man of simple habits; great bonhomie, and uprightness,. and delights to supervise work on his vineyards, the Lqupilloirestate,' in his nativo district.' His father was a clerk of-the peace at Mezin. Tho future Prosident "was called to the Bar at Nerac, of which he became Mayor'and Deputy in 187G as . a momber of the Republican Left party. Re-elected in 1877, .'he became iUndoV.Secretary for'the'Ulterior,-1880, Minister of the interior, 1882, Prime Ministor (March 29, 1883), his Cabjnet falling eleven months later, when the Senate'rejected the Bill dealing with pretenders, to .the throne., of''France;., .After this h« was twice; Minister, of. Publio Education, twico ..Minister of Justice, and . again 'Mihistef of the 1 Interior, until,in 1899.he, suc"ceedeiLM.'iLoubet as, President of the Senate, • having btien elected, a. member of that, assembly. Kin 1890, v M..i Fplliereji man of culture and. Lan orator'.. He loves books, 1 ' arid has written verse, both'in French and'in the'Languedocieri ' Sialect. .He 1 married-Mile. BesSon, daughter of 'a solicitor, and has two qhildren—a son, who is a: barrister,, and an,, unmaified 'daughter. •; Prince. Arthur of Cowiauyht,-son'of the Duke of . Connaught, and therefore nophew of tho King, is twenty-five years'of age. He is a 'captain of: the Scots Greys, and aide-de-camp' to the King. His most-noteworthy diplomatic mission was the convoying of the' Order of the Garter to the Mikado.