POLITICAL CRISIS. FRENCH CABINET'S RESIGNA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1912, Page 7

POLITICAL CRISIS. FRENCH CABINET'S RESIGNA-

COLLEAGUES EXPRESS . HONFIDENCE IN PREMD3R. WHAT M. DELCASSE REQUIRED. •y Telejr»pb.— Pre«i Atsocitttan.— (topyrlghl. (Received January 12, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, 11th January. All the Premier's colleagues except M. De Selves have written to M. Caillaux expressing confidence in him and approbation of h.is action. The" Echo de Paris publishes an interview with M. Caillaux, who states, that, seeing the difficulty in securing a Mijiiater for Marine, he resigned. M. Delcasse insistec} on President Faljieres giving guarantees tljat the Fqroigri Minister would be sheltered from all interference, and. a-sU$4 for. a declaration that he would llot be expected to continue the policy resulting in Fran.cc-Gern}an Agreement. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE PREMIER. PARIS, Uth January. Inability to secure a successor to M. DelcaSee, Ministei for Marine, who accepted the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, on condition a strong man was selected for tha Mipiela-y of tyarine, hastened the Cabinet's resignation. •' The journal Libert* asserts that M. Caillaux, the Premier, from 16th to 31et July, when the crjsJß with Geainany was at its worpt, d.aUy exchanged vie^ys with the German Embassy., He also received a Eecret emtasary from Germany. Without inforiping M. Cambon (the Frerich Ambassador at Berlin), M. Caillaux had intimated that, apart from economic concessions, he would be prepared to eqtertain a suggested understandine; with Germany in Europe, the price of which would inevit&bly mean acquiescence in the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and the, breaking up of the Triple Entente — that'ia, the understanding between Britain, France, Snd Russia.