MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS.

FRENCH POLICY. s " ; x WILL DEFEND LITTLE NATIONS^ Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, March 30. i M. Abrami (Minister of Pensions), in the Chamber, announced tba% M. Clemenceau's policy was not to send troops to Russia, but to defend little nations against Bolshevism; especially Poland and Roumania. ', WHAT THE -HUNS- WILL DO. The French are officially" that Germany will seek' political suj£ port in Russia and alsb'-in the economic field, there to replace "what she has lost iin the outside world ,-jA . ASSISTING ROMANIA,-,, i A k OTTAWA,. *£ The Canadian Government has yeip tended credits to including extensive credits fpirj-foodstuffs. andj machinery. - ' -. '*!s-" THE LEATHER TRAIJE. ' " " LONDON, March 29. The War v Office announces' that "dealings in 'leather produced in or imported from., the,! British. _Empire are now permitted without restriction. u - 'i' , " *i '— - -■ i A MURDERER ACQUITTED.' • "PARIS, March 30, -■ Raoul .Villain, accused of murdering. M. Jaures, in 1914,- was acquitted. r He pleaded patriotic'' motivesT * ', The prosecution did not demand' the death sentence, but blamed "a' section ,of the Press for virulent' attacks on M. ,Jaures, whicli^ei* Amorally' responsible foT Villain's has been an inmate of an asylum J since , his childhood. ■; " "*~i' " ' ' ' (The larte Jean* Jaures, ; the leader of the French Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies, was born in. 1860 and entered the' Chamber in 1886. He ".a'powerful writer and speaker and was assassinated in Paris in the opening days of the great war.'k ' '