FRENCH CABINET RESIGNATION.

Northern Advocate, 12 January 1912, Page 5

FRENCH CABINET RESIGNATION.

HOW IT CAME ABOUT,

MINISTER'S INDEPENDENT ACTION

(Received Jan. 12, 8.39 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 11. Inability to secure a successor to M. Delcasse, who hadl accepted the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, on the condition that a strong man was selected for the Ministry of Marine, hastened the Cabinet's resignation. The newspaper "Liberte*' asserts that M. Caillaux, from the 16th July to the 31st, when the crisis was at its worst, daily exchanged views with a councillor at the German Embassy, and also received a secret emissary from Germany without informing M. Cambon and M. Caillaux. Apart from economic concessions, he would have been prepared to entertain a suggested principle or understanding with Germany in Europe, the price of which would inevitably have been acquiescence in the loss of Alsace and Lorraine and the breaking up of the triple entente. M. Caillaux' colleagues, except M. de Selves, have written to him expressing their confidence and approbation. The "Echo do Paris" interviewed M. Caillaux, who stated that, seeing the difficulty of securing a Marine Minister, M. Delcasse insisted on M. Fallieres giving a guarantee that the Foreign Minister would be sheltered from all inteference, and he asked for a declaration that he would not be expected to continue a policy resulting in a Franco-German agreement.

CABLEGRAMS.*

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