FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12259, 9 June 1914, Page 5

FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

HOW RUSSIA IS AFFECTED. A MATTER OF MILITARY ' SERVICE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 8, at 9.30 p.m. .... .\ v Paris, June 8. . .The. .turning point.; Ah. the poltical crisis was-reached when M. Paleologne, .- the French ..Ambassador at St. -Petersburg, arrived in Paris to arrange for M. Poincaire's visit to' Russia. in 1915. He. warned French statesmen .that Russia's military reforms had already begun, and they depended on the maintenance of France's three years' military service. Inasmuch as the political and military problems were interdependent, he said the Russian' Go,vernment would reconsider itsi attitude

to many questions in the event of France repealing the trienmium. law. . M. R.ibot is forming a Cabinet. He declares tha£ the Government, like its predecessors, must- faithfully carry out the trieiinum. His colleagues include MM. Nonlens and Viviani.