THE TURNING POINT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 105, 9 June 1914, Page 7

THE TURNING POINT.

FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS. .

M. EIEOT FORMING CABINET.

By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright,

PARIS, June 8.

The 'turning,-point-, in. thje crisis ;was reached when v , .Paleplogn*?, .the French -Ambassador, in St.; Petefsbßrg,' on arriving in Paris /to arrange ragout M. Poincare's visit ,tq .Russia in 2915, warned French, statesmen. thjat Russia's military reforms,, which havebegun, depended, on the maintenance of France's threp years' service law. >. It is,, now known, inasmuch- as political and imlitary .problems, ,are interdependent, that the Russian, Government might reconsider its attitude on many questions in the event of France repealing the law. ' M. Ribot is forming a Cabinet. He declarer that the Government, like its predecessors, miist faithfully esjrry out the Act. His colleagues include M. Noulens and M. Viviani.