FRANCE RULED BY DECREE

Southland Times, Issue 23989, 2 December 1939, Page 5

FRANCE RULED BY DECREE

Approval Given By

Chamber

POWER TO CEASE AT END OF WAR

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 1, 10.30 p.m.) PARIS, November 30. The Prime Minister (M. Edouard Daladier) received the approval of the Chamber of Deputies to rule France by decree for the duration of the war, the

voting being 318 in favour and 175 against. Power automatically ceases with the end of hostilities. ( The Chamber also passed a vote of confidence in M. Daladier by 309 votes to 188. COMMUNIST REMOVED FROM CHAMBER FRENCH DEPUTIES SHOUT PROTEST (Received December 1, 9.5 p.m.) PARIS, November 30. While the French Premier (M. Edouard Daladier) was reading the Government declaration on the occasion of the first meeting of the Chamber of Deputies since the war, deputies spotted a communist deputy, who signed the anti-war manifesto, sitting in his accustomed seat. Members shouted a protest, and ■ Dr Edouard Herriot, president of the Chamber, leaping to his feet, declared that, apart from the legal position, his presence was a scandal. Attendants removed the communist while deputies applauded. The communist deputy was M. Florimonde Bonde, for whose arrest a warrant was issued on October 5. He was arrested as soon as he was removed from the precincts of the Chamber. M. Daladier interrupted his speech to exclaim that Parliament would not tolerate the presence of traitors. M. Daladier added that the French forces were strong enough to' break enemy attacks with minimum losses and certainty of success. He paid a tribute to the attitude, of the United States, which knew that arms supplied to the Allies would be used to defend its own democratic principles. CLASH ON RUTHENIAN FRONTIER RUSSIAN TROOPS FIRE ON SENTRIES (Received December 1, 10.5 p.m.) BUDAPEST, November 30. Russian troops are reported to have fired on Hungarian sentries on the Ruthenian frontier. It is understood the clash is the result of the Hungarian authorities seizing Soviet propaganda destined for Ruthenia. The Hungarians are also hostile towards Russia because of the attack on the Finns with whom they claim racial kinship.