THE FRENCH SITUATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1926, Page 3

THE FRENCH SITUATION

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RUSH OF FOREfGNERS. PARIS, July 30.

The campaign against the visiting foreigners in France is unabated. Despite official assurances that visitors have nothing to fear, several motoring parties were “booed” in various parts. Curiously this “booing” is having little effect on the English. They are rushing to Pans in greater numbers than ever. There are several additional trains and boats now running to cope with the crowds coming. There is in France consistent talk of levying a tax on the foreigners and this, it is expected, will shortly he embodied in a Rill setting a tax of one pound sterling per head. The press is devoting columns to the complaints of the people against the tourists. One of the latest objections is that they are ignorant of the French language and they fill the streets and the cafes with unintelligible babble. The Belgians, likewise, are also contemplating a special tax on these tourists, and also a substantial daily tax on the foreigners who are motoring through their territory. POINCARE’S FIRST HURDLE. PARIS, July 30. The Premier, M. Poincare, was aghast when a proposal was made by the Finance Commission to increase tho deputies’ salaries from twentyseven thousand francs annually to forty-five thousand, hut the commission voted by 22 to 2 in favour of tho increase, which was incorporated in the Fiscal Rill, and this was carried by 19 to 13.

Tile Hill will be presented to the Chamber probably on Saturday. M. Poincare resisted any amendments to the Bill, saying: “ It is all or nothing. One tax is as abnoxious as another. All taxes arc obnoxious.” He added that the present Hill was only the preface. He intended to proceed by stages. He promised that plans for the stabilisation of the franc would ho ready by October. PARIS, July 20. At Lyons, the Socialists have adopted a resolution reproaching M. Herriot for allying himself with ‘‘all the parties of reaction.” The Socialists are in a majority at the Town Hall, and they demand his resignation from the Mayoralty of Lyons. FRENCH FRANC. (Received this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON, July 30. Tho French franc in London opened at 201 1.