FRENCH AFFAIRS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 June 1907, Page 3

FRENCH AFFAIRS

TROUBLE IN WINE DISTRICTS. GRAVE SITUATION. • SPEECH BY THE PREMIER. Received 19th, 10.40 p.m. Paris, .June 19. I Tn connection with the trouble in the wine districts there have been many attempts to incite revolts and threats to burn property. The Chamber of Deputies, recognising the tfravity o!' the siluation, heartily supported }.l. CiieminecauV. declaration that orders lirtd been given for legal action to pursue its course, lie added that the State must be supreme, and the normal, regular working of the Administrative and Judical machinery be restored. ITc had put the national force at the disposal of the law. lie would avoid bloodshed as far as possible, but when there was an insurrection against the law in the departments, and when Separatist Commit* tee professed to tak a the (Jovernment's place, the Government enforced their resignation by the intimation that the law nmsi be applied. M. Sarrant remarked: Yes, when conciliation failed.

M. Cleminceau said that (he law must prevail. ''As a Frenchman, 1 ' he proceeded, "I acknowledge the right, but my resignation will promote the pacification of offenders, who are old comrades of mine, brothers in arms, whom I advise to trust the Republic, and revert to legal methods." Cheers' followed these remarks.