A Cabinet Divided

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5

A Cabinet Divided

Tension in France LEFT’S TAXATION PROPOSALS. PLANS TO BALANCE BUDGET. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,] New York, Dec. 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 are opposing the Premier and Al. Doumer and the Left Cartel, under Al. Herriot and Al. Blum, is making a last strong attempt to take back the complete direction of affairs and reform its ranks under its own leaders'. It will Ia v 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 800,000,(MIO francs in the 1926 Budget through nation-wide economies and the rigid application of thn, income tax, with increases as high as 800 per cent, severe penalties lor all tax dodgers, from farmers to industrialists (including prison sentences and suspension of civil rights) and 30 per cent reduction in income tax on the salaries of persons.—(A. and N.Z.)