FRENCH PRESIDENCY
ELECTION OF M. MILLERAND. M. BRIAND LIKELY TO BE PREMIER. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS. September 23. M. Millerand has been elected President. M. Millerand’.' sweeping majority at the first ballol decided supporters of MM. Bourgeois and Perel to give their votes to M. Millerand at to-day’s election a-t Versailles though certain Radicals, including M. Dournergen, signified their intention of abstaining from voting as a protest against M. Millerand’s new -lolilinal conception. It is likely lhat M. Briand will become Premier. M. DESCHANEL’S EXIT. A PATHETIC SCENE. PARIS, September 23. (Received September 24, 5.3 p.m.) M. Dcschanel’s departure from the Presidential residence at Rarabouillet was marked by pathetic scenes. The children wept when he entered, the motor car. The ex-Presidcnt is sadly wasted and obviously in a state of great weakness. He passed between files of weeping domestics on the arm of his wife and father-in-law, and cast a long farewell look at the scene as the car drove off towards Paris, where he is living at an hotel.
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Southland Times, Issue 18937, 25 September 1920, Page 5
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175FRENCH PRESIDENCY Southland Times, Issue 18937, 25 September 1920, Page 5
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