BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9103, 1 June 1908, Page 5

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

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* THE ENTENTE CORDIALE. M. PICHON'S VIEWS. PARIS, May 29. M. Pichon, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, interviewed, said that M. Fallieres had been profoundly impressed by the magnificent reception accorded him. It was most cheering to see the policy of an understanding with Great Britain become triumphant in the form of a close permanent entente cordiale. "Both nations," added M. Pichon, "feel inst nctively that this is one of the surest means of counteracting all combinations interfering with their interests or threatening peace." THE PRESIDENT'S DEPARTURE. LONDON, May 29. The King, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Christian, bade farewell to M. Fallieres at Victoria Station. A FAREWELL MESSAGE. Received May 31 3.23, p.m. LONDON, May 30. M. Fallieres, before leaving Duver sent, a farewell message to His Majesty King Edward, in which he renewed his thank? for t'-ie warm reception accorded to him, and assured His Majesty that he carried away an everlasting rememberance of his stay in London. King EJward made a felicitous reply. * LONDON, May 30. Presiding at the Libtral-Unionist Club dinner, tendered to Mr A.J. Balfour, at the Hotel Cecil, the Marquis of Lansdowne, after the toast of the King had been honoured, proposed the health of PresidentFallieres. He remarked that the good understanding between Britain and France initiated by the Unionist Government, had stood the te3t of time and promise to continue to stand. It had found favour with the people because it made tor the greatest of all British interests, viz., peace. Mr Balfour's speech was a strong criticism of the Government's dorm stic legislation.