PRANCE'S NATIONAL DEFENCE BILL
POWERS SOUGHT BY WAR COUNCIL. • (Rec. December 17, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, December 16. The new Government's first step-had been to seek power to take the necessary war measures, exceping nloney votes, by decree instead of by legislation, and applies to agricultural and industrial production, labour atid food. M. Briand proposes to forthwith apply the powers to the prohibition of liquor containing over fifteen per cent., of alcohol. ■ The Chamber," after a lively debate, by 308 to 187, referred the proposal to a special Commission. M. Briand explained that he desired power to requisition men in addition to supplies whenever required. In the Chamber the members vigorously attaoked the National Defence Bill on the ground that it constituted a dictatorship. ' The '"Matin" explains that J£ gives the same powers as the British Defence of the Realm Act.—Aus.-ix.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 18 December 1916, Page 7
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142PRANCE'S NATIONAL DEFENCE BILL Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 18 December 1916, Page 7
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