The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-21
llTRIOL FLOWS IN BITTER FIGHT FOR
 FRENCH CONTROL
Premier Poincare Bears Brunt of Abuse Heaped Upon Officials.
By FRANK F. MASON, International News Service Staff
 COrreSpOndent.

Paris, July 21 Fundamental sefTsda draafin daferenSes; points of view utterly irreconcilable, outcroppfngs of antagonism that were necessarily si1enced during the war. bitter vituperation, scenes of wild en- thusiasm in the Chamber of Deputies aiternating with deunciatory speeches equally Latin-go to make up an impressionistic picture of the political fight now being waged for and against the present administra- ton in France.
 On the one hand is the Admins tration itself-or Government" as they call it in Europe-headed by the Premier, Raymond Poincare, and backed by a substantial but varying majority in the Chamber.
 On the other hand are the opposi- ton parties-the Left their extreme views expressed by the communists, and their bitter hatred of Poincare recently cu1n1inating in a dramatic accusation that he and his followers were responsible for the outbreak Of the. war in 1914.
 Vftro1ic are the lampons launched against Monsieur Poincare in this campaign by the communist leaders on the floor of the Chamber and in the columns of their morning daily, PHumanite, and their afternoon news paper, P1nternatfonale.
 The Premier is soubriqueted "Poin- care la Guerre," implying that he was of the war, part and parce1-in other words. the cause of it. Often he is Ironically dubbed King of France"
 Accusation is made by the com munists that Poincare, during his Presidency at the time the war start ed, entered into underhanded deal ings with the Russian Government and that he forced the war to protect certain interests in Russia. Charge is also made that Poincare displayed cowardice in 1914 when he left Paris, taking the Government with him.
 Poincare has not been idle against these attacks. His first move was a counter-offensive. He has laid before the Chamber a project to deprive Deputies Marcel Cachin and Valiant Couturier of their Parliamentary inn munity- This would mean that these two communists would be subject to trial in the French courts, and M Po1ncare has promised to see that they will be prosecuted The charges will be unpatriotic behavior, or some thing similar.
 This attempt of the Premier and his followers to curb the rough tongued radicals was thwarted, at least temporarily Claim had been made that the two communist leaders had published an editorial '1eader' ir4 one of their journals Hbelously at ta&king Poincare and insulting the stood that the prosecution of Cachin and VafNant-Couturier was to be based upon. this article signed by the two. ss The morning after the threat had been made PHuranite appeared with a reprint of the article. It was signed with several dozen names, many of them influential labor leaders.
 = To continue action against the two deputies at that time would have meant taking action against every one of the men who signed the articlei For the time Poincare was blocked. 4Szs1 attack on the Parliamentary immun- ity of Cachin and Vaillant-Couturier will be fought out regardless.
 Meanwhile, the Premier has played another trump card. His opportun- ity came through the trifling matter of picture postal.
 Cachin and Vaillant-Couturier had seized upon this postal card, which Herrick. United States Ambassador to France, at the ceremony of presenta- ton of the United States Congression- al Medal to the city of Verdun The communists claimed satirically that Poincare, standing over the grave of an unknown soldier, was grinning sardonically.
 When the affair of the postal card was mentioned in the Chamber Poin- care jumped to his feet.
 "YOu Have InsuIted U. S.!"
 You have insulted not only me but the representative of the United States with ca1umniatorsl Anyone can see that MT. Herrick and I are not smiling in the picture. We are squinting to avoid the rays of the sum-
 The Premier then demanded an of hcfal interpolation on the subject of the responsibility for the war This Interpolation gave Rene Viviano, who was Premier during the Poincare Presidency, opportunity to defend his colleague in a fiery speech, in which he recalled the events of 1914 and sought to establish the mobilization of Germany as the true starting point of hoStiIities.
 At the conclusion of the speech Poincare rushed to Viviani and, throwing his arms about him, kissed him violently on both cheeks.
 The Chamber cheered itself hoarse.