New-York tribune., 1902-08-24
PARIS
EXPTLsIoN OF NUNS MEETS WITH GEN
ERAL APPROVAL.
are,>TF-ICaNCE OF BRITTANY UPRISING
VIEWS OF SIR wJLFR1D LAURIER On
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er,NIFICANCE OF BRITTANY UPRISING
VIEWS OF SIR WILFRID LAURIER on
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Copyright; 1902: BY The Tribune Association
Paris. Aug 23.-The expulsion Of the recall
citrant nuns is over. Forty-three OF the
eighty-seven departments into which France is
divided have by the nouthpiece of their respec-
tive General Assemblies strongly approved the
drastic measures taken by the Ministry for car
rying out the association laws. twelve depart
nlents have censured the Cabinet. in six depart
n1ents no assemblies summoned. and in
the remainder Of the departments, amounting
to twenty-siX. no expression Of opinion either
FOR against the government was pronounced.
This affords the most accurate barometer at
tsinable OF the public sentiment Of France in
regard 10 the expulsion Of the nuns and the
closing Of their schools. These rigid measures
applied by the government. and which inn
partial observers seem to have been wanting in
tact and have been unnecessarily oppressive
nevertheless meet the approval OF the great
majority.
in Brittany the situation remains very dis
onieting, for the peasants now threaten reprisals
when the schools are handed over to the new
teachers. Parents have decided TO leave their
children uneducated rather than send them to
the secular schools. No such scenes as those in
The past fortnight have been witnessed in Lower
Brittany since the days Of the Terror. Had it
not been for the timely patriotic intervention Of
Count de Mum, Able Gayraud. the ecclesiastical
Deputy from Finistere, and Admiral Cuver
vile Sens tor from F7nistere. no. although
militant Roman Catholics conjured and x
horted the people 20 refrain from violence, fear
ful biooeshed would have prevailed.
The I'm BRITTANY IS NON confined to
hoycotting the lay teachers. The village shop
Keepers refuse to supply them with food or
ecods. Town meetings have been held. in which
the Inhabitants resolved literally to starye out
I'll tie lay teachers, and if the government sends
vicsuals from Brest or other points to them
opposition will be offered 70 the carriers convey
ing the provisions and If these be convo.-~- by
sendarmes troop. the inhabitants declare
thet fighting Will eneue.
A significant feature of the present uprising
In Brittany is that the whole region TO the great
chaerfn Of the Monarchists ana OF the National
tets, has lost all sympathy with the royalist
cause. The Breton peasants seem never to have
heard even OF the Due d'orleans. The descend
ants of the yendee defenders OF the monarchy
during the great revolution now sing the Mar
seillaise' in frenzied chorus trandish tricolors
eurmounted by Phrygian caps of liberty, and
their eloquent parliamentary representative
who in the Chamber Of Deputies succeeded to
the seat OF the late Alsatian Bishop Freppei of
Orleans and OF Monseigneur Hulst, has. to the
disnsy OF the Faubourg ST. German. proclaimed
himself sta!wart, hatfooted Republican.
This Republican outburst in the former strong
hold of royalty still further emphasizes the want
% tact shown by NJ. Combes and justi1es the
criticisms of sober minded Republican papers
like the Temps" that the government lacked
foresight and moderation and made bluEder
I'm ever assuming that such deerees would be
obeyed without opposition.
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