FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1917, Page 5

FRANCE.

SOCIALISTS VOTE AGAINST GOVERNMENT. RO FAITH IK STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. Puis, August 3. Tfc. Chamber voted confidence in the fig"' vy i»» to. % Ribot, in bis speech preceding the Jot*. riglTing to M. Benaadel's request fc Mow Socialists to go to Stockholm, ■rid: "We wish for an honorable peace, twt a peace which will make us staves. App to <*iy obtainable by victory, and R not obtainable by ccnfmncos. We <0 not think the Socialist Conference at HmUnlau effect tba sort of peace His trie cried, "We will fo despite yon." (Uproar and shouts al diaapproval). 1L Jubot the* appealed to the Chambar far unity. iifldral Lacacrs resignation is due to tike Chamber 1 * naval committee seeking power to inquire into all Matters fcartebrinf to tba nary. The Chambo Vttt Mill the proposal on Friday. Aa •-majority of the Socialists voted agMnat tb« Gavannneiit in the Cttimtxr «TsMMttaa en the queation of attending 9U wwholm cwwww it is reported fh»i til* Jiiuistci, 1L Albert Thomas, Tmj twifn.

THE POLITICAL CRISIS. tESTRICTED BREAD AUUOWANCK. fetched Aeg 5. ia pan. Paris, Ang. 4. Mi (Mil tats reatpwd, partlv from llillk towns »4 partly on the ground wwmmim ***** taken over the main tmntattoa ol lbs Moekada, thns minimttlif the French Ministry's work. A ' tyenw Rftricti the dsßy consumption of feMk to WO grammes (I.US lb) far ip> wrf HW grammes for ekikbeu un--BKUIOK OF THE BOCIAUSTS. Tina* Service. Bcatfaad Anq. 5, 5.5 pjL Bans, Aug. 4. *fka political crisis is preventing 31. iftot and If. Painleve (War ■ MU*) aMeadtng tin Allied confertoraa fa Britain. The Socialists decided In permit M. Thomas (Munitkms Mrnis- » to remain in the Cabinet, M. Pain- ' V*l to take the. Premiership. It AIMS REAFFIRMED. Paris, August 3. Aft V. Boti's instance, the ChalaMr, by K2 votes to 61, re-affirmed the Mr alias resolution of June 5. Thirty voted with the Government. pOUI Mwatiaa adopted by the ftnnber was as follows: tla qwwltr ol Deputies, the direct MptMWg «t tha tovercigaUv of the ■SfcA people, lend* grretiDK ic ih« ■rian and other Allied dcmncradcs. wUnkla Um luHkniinoni prvicst ath*id fn llri in the National Asurajjy by the representatives of Akaw. Ipniaa, toni from France in her do* M the ftaaibsr declares that it avrtiU Hp the wr toned upen Europe by tip apreeoon of Inparialist Uermaoy, tin lOwratioK of tha Jinvadad tetrit.w&ths return of Asae£-lomisc to eUwr<aoiuttry, and jast nparstte tor daauf* done. Invwl from ail thoufht of conquest ■A af tfca «uU*ament of foreign peoMk the ttamber reGes won the efMf a| tin Amlta of the Republic and rf ftw ABiad Araio. to eaaUs it—when Nnaeian ailifarritß) has 4ean ctrak IpMHtt attain lasting guarantees of aid lndej wndcnco tar peoples great small in the already prepared orPglesllini of a society of nations. 1| trusts the Government to obtala Mnaa resnlts by the co-ordinated miliaand action of all the , and rejecting all amendments, gunes to the order-of the day.]