The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
FRANCE HAPPY IN DIPLOMATIC SENSE Alliance With Russia Still
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Ry PAUL VILLIERs

Ry PAUL VILLIERs
 Paris, May 2N-( Especial .)-France is most happy in diplomatic sense. We have the assurance of M. Crupi, minister of foreign affairs, that the cordiale be- tween this republic and Russia was more binding than ever. And the same could be affirmed in respect to England and Spain and other nations. Answering questions on that score in the senate M. Crupi said:
 lis the situation in Morocco such as to excite some apprehension? The situation is such as to justify the remark l made, enable the Maghzen to pay the soldiers who are to maintain the communications with the Shawia. If the situation at Fez becomes difficult, we shall take the nec- essary measures to secure the safety, of Europeans and all French citizens
 The Franco Russian alliance remains as intact as ever and governs all our rela- tions with the allied state. The Czar Nicholas is animated with the same senti- ments towards France as was his august father. The work of the alliance. of which M. Ribot spoke, is still firm and manifests itself in the form of a regular cooperation day by day. It is in this spirit that they intend to carry it out.
 The entente cordale with England con- tinues to be one of the fundamental bases of our foreign policy.
 With Spain we continue to have friendly relations. We cooperate with her in the most conciliatory spirit, and we shall en- deavor to improve our economic relations with her. We shall carry out a policy of cooperation also with Germany in all l. aces where we have interests In com mon.
 Apropos of Madames Curie and Chav annes efforts to have their daughters ad- mitted to the lyceum for boys the late Jules Ferry thought 1t we'll for boys and girls to be as much as possible brought up together. His type of a primary school house was central building with great hall for fetes and play room in bad weather, with overhead the habta- ton of the teachers.
 Mines Curie and Chavannes as is we'll known petitioned the minister of public instruction to authorize the entrance or their daughters to boys lyceum, the only one convenient to their homes. A few lumorists of the teaching body say: Yes, provided boys be received at girls lycees. The discipline of boys school would have to be altered were girls brought in. There is no rule to prohibit girls from entering boys schools of this class. The actual exclusion is based on custom and the unsuitableness of the dis cipline 70 them.
 The Alsation caricaturists, Hanse and zislin. who have made themselves con spicuous in their own country by their humorous diatrbes which led to rather serious terms of imprisonment inflicted by the German authorities have been for the last week and are being lavishly en- Hanse and Zislin are immense ly popular here. Their imprisonment does not seem to have effected their health or depressed their gaiety, and they have cheerfuly submitted to the admiration and enthusiasm of their ellow-artists. The Society of Humorists gave them a banquet and put much humor in the menu.
 A curious claim for damage came be- fore the correctional court recently. George Tournieux died from the effects of a prescription which his wife had culled from a book called The Peoples Doc tor,' where owing to a misprint 15 grammes of ammonia were prescribed in stead of 15 drops.
 The author of the book has been sen tenced to three months imprisonment and fined and the man who made up the is sentenced to one month S imprisonment and a fine. The widow was awarded s200 damages and an annuity of s6o. while her children will receive s6O year each until reaching their majority.
 The fact that the vignerons of the Aube have been excluded from the province Of for the purposes of the delimi- tation act shows that the influence of the big firms has been paramount in draft ing it. The Aube belongs as certainly to as Midlothian does to Scot land It's chief town once was the capital of the province. But the wines of the Aube are not used by the firms in ques- ton, lower priced champagnes being made from them. It is worth noticing that the big champagne firms. for whose benefit the delmitaton act was passed by the Briand administration, are almost with out exception in the hands of enemies of the republican regime. Veuve Cliquot' IS thc PiOptIly OI lHe DuCneSSe u | ZeS who subscribed S600,Oc0 to the Boulangist fund. The husband of the former Mile de Were is Vicomte de Nun. and his is the Marquis de Polignac. The Marquis de Montebelo was French am bassador to St Petersburg, who looked down on President Loubet, and for hav- Ing done so lost his high situation. The Aube vignerons seem to know nothing of this. They burn in effigy M. Monis and Leon Bourgeois, and let Briand alone
 Following the example of the American government the French navy department has decided to make experiments to test the destructive power of a new meliriite shell for the guns of the new battleships.
 An old battleship the Neptune, will the target and shells will be fired into II from guns on shore. These shells maj holes in heavy armour plates. but fail to burst when they strike lighter 
 rr'le picture dealers now hire at great rents hanging room in private galleries of high rernite for the pictures they hope to boom.
 The judges tell me that there is more cheating in pictures than in race horses. He attributes this to the great number of now about who want to pass for being men of taste. They judge chiefly of the merits of an ancient master by the | nail. on which it has hung or the price to which something done by the same hand has been worked up at sales Prep arations for sensational sale at which Ihe late M Chauchard could be ''netted'' sometimes went on. for several years. It was In this way that. Millet's .'Angelus was bomed up to the huge figure at which