FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1917, Page 5

FRANCE.

CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS PAPAL NOTE. INTER-ALLIED AGREEMENTS. Renter Service. Received Sept 20,. 11 p.m. Paris, Sept. 20. The Chamber passed a voto of confidence in the Government by 378 votes to one. Received Sept. 21, 1.50 a.m. Paris, Sept. 20. The, Chamber voted confidence in the Government after an interpbllatioi- rd* guiding the Cabinet's war measures and aims. The questions that demanded a reply referred to enemy peace manoeuvres, the shape of the* Stockholm Conference, and the Papal Note. if. Painlcve replied that France adhered to President Wilson's reply to the Pope, M. Ribot, when asked to fulfil his promise to publish the inter-Allied agreements, said that France hud no secret diplomacy. She was ready to reveal everything, but must act in concert with the Allies. It was Petrograd that asked him to defer the publication of interAllied treaties, he continued, reiterating 'that Prance had not merely claimed Alsace-Lorraine, but reparation for destruction-, wrought by an inhuman enemy, and guarantees for'a durable peace, in "not answering the Pope's Note France was in agreement with Britain Italy and Russia.

THE TUKUEL INCIDENT. Received Sept. 20, 5.5 p.m. fParis, Sept. 19. The Committee of Enquiry unanimously decided to prosecute M. Tunnel, [>!'. Turmel, a French Deputy, left Swiss banknotes worth u thousand sterling in a room at the Chamber of Deputies in July, but did not claim them until last week, when he explained he had received the money for legal services. He denied he had received the money from Switzerland for disclosing events at a secret session of deputies in June. A Parliamentary inquiry was opened, and Tunnel, on Saturday, attempted to ei.ter Switzerland, but was stopped at the frontier bearing an expired .passport.]