GERMAN INTRIGUES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17218, 22 January 1918, Page 5

GERMAN INTRIGUES

DEBATE IN FRENCH PARLIAMENT. CHALLENGE TO A DUEL. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. PARK, Jajraary 20. Tho Chamber of Deputies passed .1 vote of confidence in M. Ciemenceau after one of the most heated debates over heard in t'ho Chamber. M. Deschanel was eompeiled to suspend tho session in ardor to re-establish calm. The trouble arose, after a Socialist interpellation against the Royalist paper Action Francaise.

To this members on the Right delivered a counter-attack, and M. Pugliesseconii accii.-od 19 deputies of collaborating in tho newspaper Limougos, which was founded with German money, and in which Liebknocht and Bernstein (German Socialists) are interested. They further accused M. Longuet, who is Karl Marx's grandson, of writing for a German Swiss paper. Finally tho Gharrvber, by 356 votes to 118, adopted an order of the day stating that the Government should c.heck all Royalist and other movements attempting to create civil war, and expressing confidence in the Government to act.

During the debate a Socialist de>puty, M. Maycras, struck M. Pugliessconti, who subsequently sent his second to M. Mayeras, who declined to admit himself in the wrong, as Pugliessconti had produced a revolver. M. Pnbliessconti then sent his seoond to M. Languet.

COUNT LUXBURG. A GERMAN PROTEST. Router's Telegrams. BUENOS AIRES, January 20. It is officially announced that Germany is protesting against Count Luxburg's detention ; while the Argentine maintains tlijfc this is necessary, because Lux burg is insane. INTERNMENT IN AMERICA. Router's Telegrams. NEW YORK, January 20. Hugo Schmidt, 8010 Pasha's paymaster and' American agent of the Berlin Deutsche Bank, has been interned l . ANOTHER FRENCH POLITICIAN INVOLVED. CHARGES AGAINST M. MALVY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, January 20. (Received Jan. 21, at 6.50 p.m.) M. Malvy has been cited to the High Court on Monday to answer M. Daubet's charges of supplying tho enemy with French military and diplomatic plans, particularly the plan of the Chemin' des Dames attack; also of encouraging the enemy by promoting and inciting mntiny. The case is expected to be opened on the 28th inst.