FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, May 11. M. Ribot, speaking at the opening of the Bordeaux Exhibition, said that recent joint action in the .Far East would further knit together Russia aad France, whose alliance would be an additional guarantee of the peace of the world. He indicated the necessity for further taxation, including a graduated tax on domestic servants. May 13. Tbe S.vjiaUstfl in Bordeaux booted Premier Ribot, and displayed a threatening attitude towards him. London, May 13. M. Ribot derides the agitation among tha priesthood against taxation as fictitious, and asserts it will soon be abandoned. Speaking at the Bordeaux banquet, he claimed that the democracy had proved capable of a uniform tenacious foreign policy. The world bad realised that an enduring alliance with Russia was a guarantee of peace. After the campaign in Madagascar was over, it was intended to make the island a real colony, and they would offer their young men a chance to convert it into a new France. Tbe London Chronicle's Roman correspondent Fays the Pope bas retreated from bis first position, and is now advising the French clergy to submit to the taxation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 19
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