Paris, Oct. 23.
When returning yesterday from his visit to the President before whom he had laid the Cabinet's resignation, M. Briand stated thit he Would never again accept the premiership, Meanwhile there is: much speculation as to the future composition of the Cabinet. It is, however, extremely difficult to make any for feasts as the political situation is very obscure. Parliamentary circles, however, are inclined to believe that the Left block gained much prestige from yesterday's victory which, it is asserted, surprised M. Briand than it did other deputies. labours of the preparatory committees working on the various questions awaiting settlement fore the institution of the Young Plan had met with dimiculties and that the completion of their work, had accordingly been unavoidably; delayed. He promised that the Hague Agreement would be submitted to the Chamber for ratification as soon as it was ready and asked that the debate of the interpellations should be postponed until that time, 'The majority of the members of the Chamber agreed to this and several " speakers declared that though they favoured an immedi Aiscussion, they would not force an move, while the Radical deputies, MIN,' Montigny and Louis Marin, dissented and insisted on the Chamber's right and duty to exercise control at all times over the doings the Cabinet and that, according ly, they wished to be informed as regards the Rhineland and Saar District problems, 'Thereupon M. Briand rose and Gemanded from' the House a vote of confidence. In this vote, how. ever, the Cabinet was defeated. The result was received by the Chamber with profound silence which, however, changed soon into most tumultuous scenes when Briund left immediately to lay the Cabinet's resignation before Pres-
Tardiew, Minister of the Interior, is mentioned as the most likely successor to M. Briand.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
'M. Georges Clemenceau, who was Paris, Oct. 23.
Prime Minister and War from 1917 to 1920 and who is at present confined to his bed, recently declared that France had ided too much and it is possible that he abetted the downfall of the Premier, 3, Briand, yesterday.
The "Tige 31. Jules Mandel, his former sceretar¢ and devoted friend, just before the fateful sitting of the Chamber yesterday and immediately afterwards, and it was after M. Mandel's intervention in the Chamber that the Centre began to waver, especially when he quote! a speech' of the ex-Premier, BIN. Poinearé, insisting that the Young Plan, especially the evacuation of the Rhineland, could only be accopted when the financial aide of the question had been fully settled.
Mx. Clemenceau has never forgotten 1870. He is adamant as re-hards the occupation of the Rhine-Tand as a guarantee of France's
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