THE FRENCH CABINET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 13 January 1912, Page 5

THE FRENCH CABINET.

SOME INNER HISTORY,

THE MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS,

SEASONS FOR GERMANY'S DEMANDS

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 12, 11.5 p.m. Paris, January 12. The newspaper Debats has published correspondence showing that under the pretext of railway concessions to a Franco-German group of financiers, M. Caillaux, when Finance tMinister, proposed to transfer the whole outlet of French Equatorial Africa. M. Cruppi rejected the scheme, since he was not re'tained as Foreign Minister in the reconstructed Monis Cabinet. M. Caillaux further conveyed to the German Government his willingness that Paris should •j be the money market to the Bagdad railway. He also approved of the appointment of a German every three years in connection with Ottoman debt, and finally came to a general understanding with Germany on the political question. All ttys, the' paper alleges, was while - the Moroccan question was unsettled, thus tying the hands of the French Government.

A dossier presented to the Senate Committee, includes M. Caillaux's negotiation with.Baron von Lanckin, Councillor of the German Embassy, wherein the ' Bagron expressed surprise that the Minister of Foreign Affairs rejected certain German proposals in view of the fact that an eminent French personage (meaning M. Caillaux) made much larger proposals to Germany. » •. M.; Caillaux protested against the au- .. thenticitv of the documents, which M. do St>ves insisted should include a dossier. : ■; ; Tie Temps blames the Chamber for the cr.sis, and says it is practically the same Parliament which sacrificed M. DelCasa^ -because he forgot. < •»'nnuiiv accuses M. Caillau:: of fostifrin™ that <;. omiision. l ' tHE LATE PREMIER'S VIEWS. Paris, January 11. tM. Caillaux's colleagues, except M. de Selves, has written to hini expressing their confidence and approbation. _. t • Thje Echo de Paris interviewed M. Caijlaux, who states that seeing the dif- = ficujty of securing a Minister of Marine, M. Delcasse insisted on the President, "M. Fallieres, giving guarantees that the Foreign Minister should be sheltered from all interferences, and asked for a declaration that he would not be expected to continue the policy resulting in tjje Franco-German agreement. THE CAILLAUX CABINET. Caillaux's Ministry came into office at tKe end of June, 1911, on the defeat of the Monis Ministry, M. Caillaux having been Finance Minister in the Monis ' Cabfnfet. M. Caillaux's Cabinet was com- • posied'of representatives of ill the parties of the Left, with the exception of the ,extfeme Sdcialists. It included five Radicals, M. Caillaux himself and MM. de Selves, Delcasse, Cruppi and Dujar-din-Beaumetz; eight Socialist Radicals, MM."Steeg, Messimy, .Couvba, Klotz, Pams," Rene, Renoult, Rene Besnard, and Malvy; two members of the Democratic Left, MM. Leburn and Chaumet; and one so-called Republican or Independent Socialist, M. Augagneur."