POINCARE SCORES WIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 7

POINCARE SCORES WIN

FORESTALLS NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION FRENCH DEPUTIES STIRRED Times Cable. LONDON, Thursday. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” sends the following message: Bearding the lion in his den, the Premier, M. Poincare, rose before the opportunity came to move the motion of noconfidence and told the Deputies he wanted decision forthwith. M. Poincare said: “It is a question of knowing if the Government really exists, and, what is still more important, if it will exist to-morrow. We intend to exist and to go on existing.” There was applause from the Right and Centre Parties, and from a portion of the Left, where the waverers are usually found. The approval was so vigorous that it could be regarded in the light of promising a show of hands for M. Poincare. The Premier realises that he has won his previous successes because the divisions were not taken on party lines. He now demands a straight vote, in order to know if he can continue unhampered by the continual Socialist threats. DRAMATIC EFFECT M. Poincare again intervened with dramatic effect when a Socialist member, M. Meyer, accused M. Poincare of allowing the reactionaries to attack the Republic, and not moving a, linger to protect it. He asked why M. Poincare had not ascended the tribune to denounce the anti-Republi-cans. , , , M. Poincare jumped up and asked the Deputies if they did not remember how he was foremost in defending Parliament against the reactionaries. He mentioned his share in defeating General Boulanger and in saving Colonel Dreyfus, who was wrongly condemned and sent to Devil’s Island. Almost the entire Chamber was stirred by his dramatic allusion to historic incidents, and burst into applause. M. Meyer’s speech faded out.