FRENCH CABINET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11247, 15 January 1912, Page 5

FRENCH CABINET.

ACCEPTANCE AFTER TWO REFUSALS. INDIGNATION IN PARIS. Press Association — Electric Telegraph— ■Copyrifiht. PARIS, Sunday. __ M. Poineaire has accepted tho Premiership, and will proceed with the formation of his Cabinet. There is indignation in Paris against M. Caillaux. The newspapers represent his negotiations as being intended to sever the French and German promoters of the Oougo-Kamerun railway, and say that tiie abandonment of that scheme led to the despatch of the German warship Panther to Agadir.

One Paris journal states that M. de Selves (at that time the Foreign Minister) thereupon proposed to despatch a French cruiser. On the same day M. Paul Cambou, Ambassador in Loudon, asked Sir Edward Grey: "If we seild a, cruiser, WiU you?" Sir Edward Grey replied: "Yes." After two days M. Caillaux, iv M. de Selves' absence, notified Sir Edward Grey that tho decision as to sending the cruiser had been postponed, fearing to create a grave situation.

The journal adds that Sir Edward Grey's engagement was overruled by a majority in the Cabinet.

M. Caillaux alleges that the sending of the cruiser was abandoned ou the advice of M. Delcasse.

Two of tho Ministers have declined to sigu M. Caillaux's letter of resignation to the President, owing to tho attack it. makes on M. de Selves.

The newspapers aro unanimous that the crisis must be terminated. The Ministry, it is declared, when not influenced by personal ambitions is competent to deal with important problems.