FRENCH POLITICS
INTERESTING BY-ELECTION. I.EFT BLOC STRONGHOLD STORMED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, February 15. (Received February 16, at 1.30 a.in.) There was an interesting .by-election at Belfort, where M. Clemenceau’s exlieutenant, M. Andre Tardieu, was returned, defeating the Radical Socialist and Communist candidates. M. Tardieu. who did not return to public life after bis defeat at the General Election in 1924, carried on a whirlwind campaign at Belfort, wtiicii was a stronghold of the Left Bloc. M. Tardieu championed the malcontents, and is reported to have declared that he was opposed to the Locarno Treaties on the ground that they would give Britain control of Europe and push back France from tho Rhine.-—Renter.
TAXATION TROUBLES.
M. DORMER'S PROPOSALS REJECTED.
LONDON, February 15, (Received February 16, at 9.5 a.m.) The 1 Daily Mail’s ’ Paris correspondent states that the revolt against higher taxes is spreading rapidly. Sixty thousand establishments, including restaurants, derided to dose for three hours tn emphasise the demand For fiscal equality, meaning “ somebody must pav. We will not.” The Chamber throughout the day rejected every tax M. Dnuiner submitted, ami ended by not voting a single penny new revenue.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19175, 16 February 1926, Page 5
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