FRENCH PARLIAMENT

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 20

FRENCH PARLIAMENT

PARIS, January 18. On the eve of the resignation of M. Oombes’s Ministry additional religious establishments in France have been closed. Four hundred and sixty-six additional religious establishments have been closed. PARIS, January 19. M. Combes, writing to President Loubet, attributed his resignation to a coalition of impatient and ambitious Clericals and Nationalists and hatred of M. Falliere, President of the Senate. He advised M. Loubet to select a Ministry from the ranks of the Republican majority. M. Doumer, President of the Chamber, advised the formation of a cabinet of conciliation.