BILLETS-DOUX TO ABDEL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2713, 22 June 1925, Page 7

BILLETS-DOUX TO ABDEL

Disloyalty Of French Communists MOROCCAN SITUATION STILL GRAVE. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aunt, and N.Z. Cab’e Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) PARIS, June 19. At the Government’s request ,the Chamber by 525 votes to, 32, postponed sjne die the Communist demand to interpellate the Government on the situation in Morocco. The Socialists voted with the Government, the Socialists having agreed to interpellate on Morocco next week. The Communists, seeking to force the issue between the Socialists and the Government, gave notice of a proposal to Interpellate to-day. In quoting a London telegram which says Abdel Krlm has made peace overtures to Prance and Spain through England and Italy, M. Briand, in demanding the postponement of the interpellation sine die, declared it would be an insult to suppose that if an honourable opportunity for peace had been offered the Government, it would not have listened to it, or allowed further bloodshed in Morocco. The vote was taken amid Communist cries of “Murderers, liars and clown with war." After a meeting of Cabinet, a Minister stated that the Government discussed Communist propaganda and decided on a policy towards the militant section of the Communist party, which is daily corresponding _ with Abdel Krlm and encouraging him to resist, assuring him that the majority of Franco is opposed to a continuance of military operations. 120 ARRESTS, DEPUTIES’ IMMUNITY MAY GO. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) PARIS, Juno 20. “Le Matin” announces that 120 arrests have been made in Paris and the provinces in pursuance of measures for the suppression of Communist propaganda in regard to Morocco. M. Painleve will shortly bring up the question in the Chamber of raising Parliamentary immunity in respect to two Communist leaders who are Deputies, to enable a prosecution to take place. A telegram from Tangier says the situation in the Western Spanish zone is more serious, and the Riff contingents are concentrating at various points along the Ceuta-Tctuan-Lar-ache line.