THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY
M. MILLERAND'S ELECTION.
A SWEEPING MAJORITY.
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright.
Ttr M-ii j PARIS, September 22. of 4 has been elected President of the French Republic. His sweenine majority at the first ballot deckTeS* he supporters of M. Bourgeois and M. Peret to give their votes to M. Millerand at totaS #T ? fc VfFsailles, though certain Radicals including M. DoumVeue signified their intention of abstainmg Cm voting as a protest against M. new political conception s It is likely that M. Briand will become Premier.—A. and N.Z. Cable
M. DESCHANEL'S DEPARTURE.
PATHETIC FAREWELL SCENES.
m • j r , PA^Is . September 23 (Received Sept. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) M. Deschanel's departure from the Presidential residence at Ramboillet £s marked by pathetic scenes. Children wept when he entered his motor car The ex-PWent is sadly wasted, and obdomestics on the arm of his wife and father-in-law, and cast a long farewell look at the scene as he drove off towards Paris NsToLbi ve at an hote] - A ™*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18050, 25 September 1920, Page 9
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