CABINET CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 7

CABINET CRISIS

BRIAND’S GOVERNMENT SPLIT

LEFT’S ATTEMPT TO REGAIN CONTROL PLAN TO BALANCE BUDGET By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. (Rcc. December 27, 11.5 p.m.) New York, December 26. The “New York Times’s” Paris correspondent states that there is a tenseness in the political atmosphere of France this week-end—greater than any since the end of the war. M. Briand’s Government is split within itself, the Radical members opposing the Premier, and M. Dotuner (Minister of Finance) and the Lett cartel under M.M. Hcrriot and Blum is making a last strong attempt to take back the complete direction of affairs and reform its ranks tinder its own leaders. It will lay on the Chamber’s table on Monday its plan for balancing next year's Budget. It will then be incumbent on the Government to accept or give way and if the Government declines to accept its defeat will follow. The Left’s plan includes a reduction of eight hundred million francs in the 1926 Budget through nation-wide economies and rigid application of the income tax, with an increase as high as 200 per cent, in the severe penalties for all taxdodgers from farmers to industrialists (including prison sentences and suspension of civil rights), and a 30> per cent, reduction in income tax on salaried per-sons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.