Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-21
CANNOT INTERFERE.
France Has No Right to NEEDLE
With Boer War.
Chamber Of Deputies Ul animouslj
Backs Premier's Opinion.
chamhe lain in Vigorous Sp ech in British
House Defends the War.

paris Ian. 20.---The session of tnr
Chamber of Deputies. today. was de
,tt.d 10 interpretations concerning tn 2
ottitudn Of France on the Armenian
n,,esti,r. and III. Transvaal war.
NJ Eouanct. Radical Socialist. pre-
s.rtcd Tho first Interpolation. In the
crurer III il he criticised the govern
ment for not having raised the settle
meut of the Armenian question when
il forced Turkey to yield in the matter
Of the Lorando and other claims.
Al pelcasse. the minister Of foreign
affairs. replied that this question was
an international one and that interven-
ton III the present moment would De
innpportune. as it would raise delicate
ard complicated questions. The Cram-
Der approved of the declarations of the
foreign minister by vote of $50 to 255.
NJ. Berry. Conservative, N. Clovis
Hughes. Rep. Soc. and Able Lemire.
Christian Soc. then introduced various
interpeila tons, bearing upon lack OF
action by The Hague peace tribunal
relative to the war in South Africa.
These speakers dilated upon the hor-
rors of the concentration camps and
fare.
NJ. Berry declared that Great Britain
had excluded the Transvaal from The
hague conference because she was in
tent at that time upon forcing a war
Il ere. He contended that certain ar
ticieS of the peace convention author
zed the powers TO intervene if they
wished TO. NJ. Berry urged the French
government to bring about interven-
non in South Africa.
Able Lemire also called upon the
government to aid the Beers to become
4 free people, not only by sympathy
but by diplomacy. He concluded by
saying: We made the United states
free: let us make the Beers free also
The speeches of NJ. Berry and Able
Lemire We're warmly cheered
NJ. Leon Bourgeois, Radical Rep.
saiu that the present situation in South
Africa did not imply the destruction of
The work 81 The Hague conference, be
cause the Transvaal did not participate
therein and consequently could not in
'oke IT'S intervention. NJ Bourgeois
said The Hague conference had not vet
closed; that the non-signatories might
| Dc admitted thereto later and that the
conference contained germ which
would gradually develop.
In replying to ii. Bourgto DIS. NJ. D4rcas
| Sc said that the peace convention d:d nc,
preven, war. hut compelled nations H.
ceQduct 1t according to the laws Of nation
and humanity. France was willing 10 in
woke arbitration when certain that Nh.
| offer would be accepted. bat nothing had
| happened during the Transvaal war ~
Iidicate that an offer of mediation would
be favorably received. If such an off,,r
| We're rejected, Continued the French min
!sttr Of foreign affairs, i; would he neces.
sary to impose mediation. which would
have made war inevitable.
We are, therefore, obliged to refrain
said NJ Delcasse. whatever NAV be tha
| ssmpathies al here profess fbr that cou--
aEeous people Intervention on the part
OF France would only result IN entanglinc
her foreign policy and it is the duty Of
The government to retain the entire lib
erty of that policy
These remarks S-ere greeted with LOUD.
applause.
Denis Cochin, Conservative. said that
Great Britain was suffering from the
sickness of imperialism and that France
ought to take advantage of her enfeehlad
condition and the tottering DreibInd 10
secure the Settlement in her favor of GER
tain pending questions.
The Chamber unanimously approved tht.
declarations OF NJ Delcasse and then adj
icurned