The sudden resignation of General Jamont, the commander-in-chief of the French army, shows clearly enough that the military' caste is still at daggers drawn with the Parliamentary majority, and that the passions excited during the Dreyfus case are still at work. General Jamont threw up his post because the new War Minister, General Andre, sent two chefs de bureaux" and one "chef de section" back to their regiments and thus, according to General Jamont, di organised the whole of the head-quarters staff. If this contention were correct, the position might well justify anxiety on the part of patriotic Frenchmen, but it is some. what difficult to believe that in time of peace three military bureaucrats cannot be deprived of their posts without upsetting the mobilisation system. General Jamont is said to have been influenced by General Mercier, who is one of the chief wire-pullers of the Nationalist party. If the resignation was intended to harass the Gover ment, it failed completely, the vacancy being filled at once by the appointment of General Brugere, the military Governor of Paris, The army is likely to vain rather than lose by the change, inasmuch as the new in-chief is a vigorous and comparatively young man of fifty-nine, whereas General Jamont is nearly seventy and would have been compelled to retire under the age limit in a few months. General Delanne, the chief of staff, who bad to be ordered to retain his post, has also been replaced.
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