MUTINOUS MILITARY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 5

MUTINOUS MILITARY.

-! « GRAVE PROBLEM IN FRANCE. PLOTTERS CHECKMATED. IJj Tel«Bra»li—Proii Aisociatlon—Copyright Paris, May 25. Tlio instigators of the outbreak at the Rodez Militai-y Barracks included an exconvict and soveral members of the Confederation of Labour. It was intended to incite the men from other regiments to rob the magazines of ammunition and stores, but the plan failed owing to the arrival of officers, when the men, in re-. 6ponse to'a buglo call, trooped into the barrack square. Major ■ Angelby, seeing the mutineers forming up, snatched a rifle from ono of the soldiers, and shouted, ■"Tho first man attempting to pass the gates dies." The effect was electrical, checking the demonstration. M. Clemenceau, an ex-Premier, and a Badioal, has made a violent attack on Ministers in the newspaper "L'Homme Libre." He sayst "The lack of military discipline is an outrage on the Fatherland, and unless stopped will mean tie end of the nation." THREE YEARS' SERVICE BILL. BIG SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION. (Reo. May 26, 11.20 p.m.) Paris, May 2fi. Instead of holding tie meeting at Pctb la Chaise . cemetery aa intended fifty thousand Socialists held a demonstration outside Paris. Speeches were delivered from fifteen platforms, and resolutions were passed denouncing tho fcrienniuim service. . There was no disorder. . : "BEGINNING OF CIVIL WAR." Paris, May 25. The Socialists In tho Chamber of Deputies interpellated the Government for prohibiting the proposed demonstration at the 'graves of ex-Oommunists in the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery.

The Centre and Right ongaged in violent recrimination with the extreme Left. • ■ '

M. Barthou, the Prime Minister, announced! that he took the full responsibility. ~i .

. M. Yaillant retorted that the introduction. of the Three Years' Servioo Bill was the beginning of civil war. This statement caused on . uproar. A vote of confidence in the Government was curried by a large majority. • It 10 •understood there ' are differences among members of the Cabinet over the Triennium Bill. Two of the Ministers favour thirty months' instead of three gears' service.

POLITICAL MOVES. A RECONCILIATION. MM. POINCARE AND CLEMENCEAU. ■ Paris, May 25. M. Clemenceau has visited M. Poinoare, the President. 11 is understood they have beoome fully reconciled. M Poinoare was ..the prime mover in the matter of M. Clomonceau'g visit. He doolarod that .they should consult frankly regarding the present grave anti-military plot, aa only the closest relations between the political leaders could avert a civil war. . ,

M. Clemenceau gave a promise to cooperate. r

(During the Presidential election, M. Clemenceau, annoyed at.the rejection of hia nominee, insulted M. Poinoare, and later headed a movement among the extreme Radicals to embarrass tne President and the Government.] THE PREMIERSHIP. . N NEWSPAPER SPECULATIONS. (Bee.'May 26, 11.20 p.m.) Paris, May 26. The newspapers discuss the possibility of M. Clemenceau succeeding M. Barthou as Premier. Meanwhile M. Caillaux, whom he denounced for secretly negotiating with Germany in 1911, is working fov .the Premiership, and advocating a two years' service, with prolongations.