French Politics.
[SPRCIAL TO P&ESB ASSOCIATION.! PARIS, Mat 13. M. Ribot derides the agitation among the priesthood ogainsfc taxation as fictitious, ami asserts that it will soon bo abandoned. Speaking at a banquet at Bordeaux, he claimed that the Democracy had proved capable of a uniform, tenacious foreign policy. Tho world had realised that an | enduring alliance with Russia was a j guarantee of poace. After £be cam. paign in Madagascar was over it was intended to make the island a real colony, and they would offer their young men a chance to convert it into a new France. LONDON", Mat 13. The Chronicle' 8 Rome correspondent says that the Pope has retreated from his firßt position, and is now advising the French clergy to submit to taxation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5258, 14 May 1895, Page 3
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