THE FRENCH CRISIS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 5

THE FRENCH CRISIS

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(United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE HOW FRANCE ./AS SOLD. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.) PARIS, January 12. _ The newspaper "Debats" has published correspondence showing that, under a pretext for railway concessions to a Franco-German group of financiers, M. Caillaux, when Minister for Finance, proposed to transfer the whole of the outlet of French Equatorial Africa. M. Cruppi rejected the schenie, since he was not retained in Mr Mollis' Cabinet. M. Caillaux further conveyed to the German Government his willingness that Paris should be the money market for the Bagdad railway. He also approved of the appointment of a German every three years in connecu.oTi with the Ottoman debt. He-finally came to a general understanding with Germany on the political question. J All this was done, says the paper, while the Moroccan dispute was unsettled, thus tying the hands of the Frendh Government. The dossier presented to the Senate Committee included the Caillaux negotiations withJßaron von Lankin, Councillor of the German. JBmbassy, in» which Lankin expressed ""surprise that the Minister for Foreign Affp'Vs 'rejected ror+aiai German proposals, in view of the fact that an eminent French (meaning M. Caillaux) had larger proposals to Germany. M. Caillaux protests-- against the authenticity of the M. De Selves insisted should lucuide the dossier. , ■ «, •, "Le Temps" blames the Chamber of Deputies for the crisis. It was practically .the same Parliament which sacrificed M. Dekasse because he forgot Germany. It accuses M. Caillaux of fortifying that omiss-. ion.