FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13315, 16 January 1912, Page 3

FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.

THE NEW MINISTRY,

MODERATE' NEWSPAPERS OPTIMISTIC.

tPBES3 ABSOCIAHON—CofYIUQHT.] (Received Jau 15, 11 l' ; m-) Parls, Jan 10.

M. Poincaro's authority and prestige «nabled him to form a Ministry. The essential points of the Ministerial declaration are ratification of the Franco-Gevmnn agreement, electoral reform, and the imposition of an income tax. , ~ The moderate newspapers describe it as a national Ministry, capablo of rehabilitating Franco in the eyes ot Europe.