FRENCH POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15350, 13 January 1912, Page 10

FRENCH POLITICS

TITR CABINET CRISIS. CONFIDENCE IN" M. CAILLAUX. Tma Association—By Telegraph—Copyrignt. PARIS, January 11. All his colleagues, ciccpt M. Doselves. have written to XL Oaillaux expressing their confidence and appreciation. " M. Oaillaux, in the Echo de Paris, states that, seeing tho dilliculty of securing a Minister of Marine, XI. Dclcassc insisted on President Pallicres giving guarantees that the Foreign .Minister would bo sheltered from all interference. He also askod for a declaration that ho ■would not be expected to continue a policy resulting in a Franco-German agreement. CHARGES AGAINST M. CAILLAUX. IKTRIOUIvS WITH GERMANY. PARIS, January 12. (Received Jan. 12, at 11.5 p.m.) The Debate has published correspondence showing that under the pretext of making railway concessions to a KrancofJerman group of financiers ,M. CVtillnti.v, wheti he was Minister of Finance, proposed to transfer tho wholo outlet of French Equatorial Africa, but M. Gruppi rejected the scheme. Since he was not retained as Foreign .Minister in the reconstructed Monis Cabinet, M. Oaillaux; further conveyed to the German Government his willingness that Paris should b© tho money market to tho Bagdad railway, and he aim approved of tho nppoint ment of a German every three years in connection with the Ottoman debt. Finally came a j;eneml understanding with Germany on the political question. AH thifi tor done while Morocco was unsettled, thus tying the hands of the French Government. A dossier which was presented to a Senate committee, included M. Cailhuot's negotiations with llaron von Jfcinckiii, a Councillor of the German F»mh.wy, wherein Baron von Uauckin expressed surprise that the. French Minister of Foreign Affairs had rejected certain German prnjiosalti in view of the fact that an eminent French ]>ersonage, meaning M. Oaillanx, hail made n much larger proposal to Germany. M. Caillnux protested against the authenticity of tltc document, which M. Drsclvrs insisted should in'chide the dossier. • The Temps blames the Chamber for the crisis. It says it is practically the mine Parliament which sacrificed M. Delensse Iwcaiifve he forgot Germany. Tho paper accuses M. Oaillaux of fortifying that onrifsion.