FRANCO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WITH BRITAIN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 184, 3 August 1909, Page 5

FRANCO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WITH BRITAIN.

3JOT REFERRED TO IN FRANCE.

{Received Aug. 3, 8.55 a.m.) . PARIS, Aug. 2. 'Twenty suspects, including two ■Rrassian anarchists, were arrested at -Cherbourg. The Tsar had a long audience with M. OPichon, Minister for Foreign A3? airs. ' i;

The newspaper L'e Temps comments upon the fact that the Tsar and President ,Fallieres i did not refer to . French and Russian friendships with > Biibaliai, and suggests that this was 'feeeaaise rfihe hallucinations about hemminjg tare 'hardly yet dissipated. M.. <Pichon, on being interviewed regarSing .the Tsar's meeting with' King JMward, declared that it would

excifce suspicion in no quarter, The Tsar received a party of French Crimean veterans, and presented them with £h© rgold medals which are granted ifc© Jtussian soldiery for bravery. . . < . ■. . - The ]Fi*aich. fleet escorted the iStandart &© ?spithead.