FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1917, Page 5

FRANCE.

SOCIALISTS' ATTITUDE. UNREASONABLE AND' IMPOSSIBLE. Reuter Service. Received Sept. 14, 12.20 a.m. Paris, Sept. 13. A meeting of Socialists decided not to permit any Socialist to join the Cabinet, though ready to support the Covern- . ment inrru-ted with the safety of the country. Subsequently the list of the new Ministry was published, including M. Painieve. Premier and Minister for \V.ir; M. Ribot, Minister for Foreign Affairs; and M. Loueher, Minister for Munitions. No Socialist Minister was included. Received Sept. 14, 1.15 a m. Paris. Sept 13. The Scciaii-ts' objection to M. Ribot ari=es from their demand that tne Allic3 should publish nil treaties, end secret diplomacy, and announce the conditions for a lasting pence free from all annexations. The Socialists also demand thiit civil delegates be sent to the various armies to rer>re="nt the Government. ; Other demands include State cxpluita- ' tion of national resources, and that the [Government should be.endowed with exi tensive power? for the acquisition of ar'.icles required in war. I The unreasonable nature of many of ! the Socialist demands has aroused anger iin poiitieal f'a-U*. is pointed out | that tile- French Socialists are copying 'tile methods of the Russian Soviet, | whose interference with the army has 1 produced disaster. * A DIFFICULT TASK. j Paris, Sept. 12. M. Fainleve informed M. Poincare (President! that he has given up the task of terming a new Cabinet, having failed to form a Ministry of national union. M. Poincare requested him to continue.