FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16035, 21 January 1918, Page 3

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

GERMAN RAIDERS. - s ■■ "" REPELLED BY BRITISH. (Received Jan. 21, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. Sir Douglas Haig reports;—There have been . several unsuccessful hostile raids at Neuve Chapelle and south of Lens. \ LEAVE from the front. TO 5000 MEN A DAY. (Received. Jan. 21, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. Tho War Office announces 1 that 606.000 men-in France have been granted leave during tho last four months. THE FRENCH CHAMBER. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.. AFTER VERY STORMY SCENE. (Received Jan. 21, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 2Q. The Chamber of Deputies voted confidence in M. Clemenceau after on,e'-of tho most heated debates ever heard in the Chamber, -> M. Dcschanel was compelled to suspend the session in order to re-establish calm. The trouble arose after a. Socialist interpellation against tho Royalist paper Action Francaiso. To this members on the right delivered a counterattack. M. Pugliesso Conti accused nineteen deputies of collaborating in a newspaper at Limoges founded with German. money in which Licbknecht and Bernstein were interested. They further accused M, Longuet, who is Earl Marx’s grandson, of writing for a Gorman Swiss paper. Finally tho Chamber by 368 votes to 118 adopted tho order of tho day stating that the Government should check all Royalist and other movements attemptin'* to create civil war, and expressing confidence in the Government to act. During the debate the Socialist May,cras struck M. Pugliesse Conti, who subsequently sent his second, _to Mayeras, who declined to admit,himself wrong, as M. Pugliesse Conti had produced a revolver. M. Pugliesse Conti then sent his second to M. TBonguet.