Paris, Doe, M4.
Even the French Government. press to-day admits that Herviot'" illness may compel him to resign.
The doctors hope that he will be able to leave his bed in ton days' time, but it is doubtful whether he will then be fit to tackle immediately the many dificult: and urgent problems facing the Government, including the budget, the conference on Allied finance' and Prance-German commercial neotin" tions, MI. Herriot's personality has been lanwely responsible for the workable alliance between Radicals and Socialists, ao his vacation of office would bequceth a difficult task to ix successor, The names of M, Painlevé and 3M. Briand ave Glowed for such am eventuality.
Reuter.
London, Dee. 15, The Paris correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette" understands that M. Herriot has sent x telegram. ordering ME. Jusserand, the French Ambassador in Washington, to abso tain from the Franco-American debt negotiations pending the arrival of a Paris, Dee. 13, Herriot's condition is satis. factory, the fever is decreasing and the phlebitic inflammation on his teg is becoming localised—Reuter,
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