NEW FRENCH CABINET

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3190, 14 September 1917, Page 5

NEW FRENCH CABINET

PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED. (Bee. September U, 0.20 a.m.) Paris, September 13. At a meeting of the Socialists it was decided not to permit any Socialist. to join the Cabinet, though the party is roadj; to support a Government entrusted with the safety of the country. .Subsequently, the list of the new Ministry was published. It ' includes M. Painleve (Premier and Minister of War), JL Ribot (Foreign Affairs), M. Loucher (Munitions). No Socialist Ministers aro included.—Renter. UNREASONABLE SOCIALIST DEMANDS. (Rec. September 14, 1.15 a.m.) . September 13. The Socialists' objection to M. Eibot arises from their demand that the Allies should publish all treaties, and so make an end of Becret diplomacy, and announce their conditions for a lasting peaoo, free of all annexations. The Socialists also demand that civil delegates should be sent with the various armies ■to represent the Government. The other demands include State exploitation of national resources. The government should be endowed with extensive powers for the acquisition of articles required for war. Tho unreasonable naturo of many of the Socialist demands has aroused anger in political circles. It is pointed out that French Socialists are copying the methods of the Russian Soviet, whose interference with'the Army has produced disaster. KILLED IN ACTION LORD BASIL BLACKWOOD. ' (Kec. September 13, 9.10 p.m.) • London, Septomber 12. Lieutenant Lord Basil Blackwood has been tilled in action.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lord Basil Blackwood was heirpresumptivo to the second Marquess of Duft'orin. Prior to going on active service in the present war he was private secretary to the Viceroy of Ireland. Before that he was Deputy-Judge Advocate, South Africa (1900-01); Assistant Colonial Secretary, Orange River Colony, to 1907; and Colonial Secretary, Pfcj> badoes, 1907-9. At the outbreak of tho Great War he was attached to t)>e Intelligence Corps (9th Lancers); joined tho Grenadier Guards in 1915, and was twice wounded. The lato officer was a clever artist, and illustrated "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts," "More Beasts," and "Tho Modern Traveller," under the initials of 8.T.8.]