Poincare Obliged to Relinquish Premiership to Undergo Operation: M, Briand Carries On Paris, July 26.
The fact that the great French leader, M, Raymond Poinearé, who is 70 years old, is suffering from an internal trouble has occasioned the circulation of alarmist rumours, but it is now stated, on high authority, that the illness Is not a grave one.
M. Poincaré has been ill since July' 17, but nevertheless, has been receiving ministers every day.
This evening he informed his Cabinet that he is shortly undergoing an operation which will render it impossible for him to do any work fox two or three months, and he has therefore, decided to tender his resignation of the Premiership to the President, M. Doumergue.
On receiving this information the Cabinet decided to depute M. Briand, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M, Louis Barthou, the Minister of Justice, to see the Premier tomorrow morning and to urge him, while taking the rest required for recovery from the operation, to yemiain as head of the Government.
Nevertheless it is pointed out that M. Poincaré does not desire to remain in office in the present state of foreign affairs, particularly as the operation he is undergoing will prevent him attending the Reparations Conference which meets at The Hague on August 5, of the forthcoming Reparations Conference to be held at The Hague in August, it is desirable to include in the next Cabinet some Radicals, the largest group in the Chamber, but the Radicals will probably insist, as a condition of their joining the Government, on re-securing the Ministry of the Interior, which they regard as their own prerogative but which a non-Radical, M. Tardieu, is now filling, and on the eve of prospective Communist demonstra tions on August 1, a change at the Ministry which controls the police would be a serious matter.
Old Ministry to Carry On July 28.
After conferring with President! Doumergue to-day, Mr. Briand, who is attempting to form a Cabinet, July 29.
The Cabinet crisis ig over.
'M. Briand went to the Elysee at noon, and, shortly afterwards, it was confirmed that the Cabinet will be the same as the Inst, minus M. Poincaré, The Cabinet, therefore, will be: Erenler and Foreign Affairs A. B:
The New Premier July 27, Tt is Tearned that. M. Raymond Poincaré persisted in his determina. tion to resign despite a. supreme appeal made by M. Briand, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M, Louis Barthou, the Minister Sustice, on behalf of his colleagues Ju the Cabinet, These two ministers called at M. Poineard's house early this morning and begged him to retain the Premiership.
is found that M. Poinearé must undergo an operation on the prostate gland, after which he will De compelled to take a complete rest for several months M. Briand, the Minister for Foreign' Affairs, has agreed to form a Cabinet.
M. Briand's task of forming a cabinet will not be easy. In view 'Though the Radicals, who are the largest group in the' Chamber of deputies, support M. Briand's foreign policy, they declined to enter his. Cabinet, M. Briand's Cabinet tially a Cabinet for Fo ard domestic polities will remain jin abeyance throughout the autumn' session of Parliament, It is expected that M. Briand will proceed to the Hague backed by a massive parliamentary majority. Reuter,
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