The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-05
' i. TRIPLE ENTENTE
 SEEMS IMMINENT Between England, France and Ottoman Government A MUSEUM OF SPEECH Is Being Prepared by Paris School master by Means of Monograph.
 French Caricaturitsts Are
 Much Alarmed s
A MUSEUM OF SPEECH

Paris, March 4.-lSpeciai) )-Negotia with Turkey relative to Asiatic railroads will depend very much on the conditions which the ottoman government may wish to impose on France. The cabinets of London and Paris have. it appears. prom ised to keep each aus courant in the pro- ceedings that in month or two may de- velop into triple entente" in which Turkey will take the place of Russia.
 The Temps has upbraided M. Pichon for having departed from his attitude in December, 1909, when he said that "the important affairs of Bagdad could not be regulated without the equitable coop eration of Britain, France and Russia with Germany. On January 16. 1911, the minister declared that the same affair tions of this sort have done much to shake confidence in the foreign minister. It remains now to repair the mischief as far as possible.
 The triple entente has been tried in the balance and found wanting. Turkey Is alarmed at the encroachments of Ger many and at last seeks the support Of the two powers she has hitherto treated 
 with some levity.
 The Echo de Parist states that two or three weeks will be required to balance Turkish desideratta with French inter est, and then serious negotiations will begin. The impression in Paris is that the British government will act parpas- SUI with France, so that the ultimate ac- cord may identify the interests of the three powers. Obviously the so-calied desiderata of Turkey tend to raising the wind.
 Djavid Bey. the Turkish finance min ister, is the ardent advocate of the new triple entente, and Djavid never acts without a consideration
 The publication of the private of the late M Waldeck- Rousseau, the celebrat- ed French statesman, who founded the republican bloc at time when the re- gime was menaced by reactionary con spiracy, has shed light on at least one secure point. No one quite knew who discovered" M. Combes. It now ap- pears that Waldeck- Rousseau chose him as his successor He lived to regret it. and his last speech in the Senate was lament on the subject. M Combes was the ardent advocate of rigid and unscru- pulous Jacobinism, and the country gave a. sigh of relief when his reign came to end since ms udy we HdNo iidu M. Clemenceau and M. Briand. With the latter the bloc ceased to exist, but he has had to pay the penalty. All his difficult ties have proceeded from the snares laid for him by the disbanded combists. Hence something like sensation has been caused by the news that M Combes has decided to accept M. Briands policy, and that there is to be a general recon cliation.
 to ritr xxyn,. in anything If the report be true. it means that NJ. Briand has "gone over'' to M. Conlbes and that soon there will be another anti-clerica1 campaign in the chamber.
 Armed with a recording gramophone, M Ponge, a schoomaster, spends his leisure hours lying in walt for street cries in popuous quarters. He is pre- pairing a museum of speech, which ne will leave behind him for the instruc- ton of future ages. When he hears the Parisian equivalent of "Milk!'' or the muffinman, he pounces on him. and com pels him to sing or ring bells into his re- ceiver. He has already collected the cries of the bird-seed man, the vegetable women, the fishwife, the basketmaker. the old clothes man, the window pane mender, the flower men selling minosa.
 
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 Two criers resisted all the collectors Embellishments or threats. The wife of the chair mender, who gathers custom for her husband. and who was afraid that the gramaphone was one of Bertil- Ions new anthropometric recording in- ventions, and the naughty and funeral Hercules, who walk. along grooming .'Tonneaux Tonneaux!" as If his heart were breaking, and robs you shamefully whenever you do sell him an empty wins cask He passed on chatting "Tonneaux" and refused to take the slightest notice of the schoolmaster's request for rec ord
 French caricaturists are alarmed at the thought that the senate is about to pass bill against indecent pictures.
 Forain, Wilette, Leandre and other members of the bureau of the Societe des Artistes, Humoristes, have pointed out