Paris, Apr. 30.
It is authoritatively stated that]
Aristide Briand has at last yielded to. the coaxing of his] friends and will allow himself to be nominated as candidate for the presidential elections which sre to. be held at Versailles on May 13 by the; national assembly comprising both the Senate and the Chamber. The} news is being greeted with derision by Nationalist quarters who, according to the afternoon papers, will put up as their candidate. the Minister of War General Magit who was wounded in the war at still an invalid which, the Nation-lists hope, will secure kim the Jeessary sympathies outer political circles, however, Bat "B. Biana "wil the support "of the feccats and the Soctaats and that teriis liny even fs Doumer, the Btesdent of the Senate, who was 20 far regarded as bavitg the bet chance, wi have bat poor prospects becoming the next Present of fie Breech Hep Rvone Doon
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