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The Review of Reviews. 



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Photograph byl 



[Xadar. Photograph by'] 



M Doumer President Fallieres. 



THE ELECTION OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. 



[iVadar. 



( The Congress of the Frencli Senat-e and Chamber assembled on January 17th in the hall of the National Assembly 

 at Versailles, when M. Armand Fallieres. President of the Senate, was elected President of the Republic by 449 votes 

 agrainst 371 given for M. Doumer. M. Fallieres comes from tlie ijeople. His grandfather was the '" village blacksmith '' 



of Mezin 'Lot-et-Garonne) ; his father was a justice's clerk, 

 early. 



( bjection of the Moors to give the Eurojiean Powers 

 a foothold on their territory. Germany has 

 recognised the superior position of Sj)ain and 

 France, whose frontiers are limitrophe with Morocco. 

 But there seems no prospect of France obtaining an 

 nternational mandate to permeate Morocco, peace- 

 ;'bly or otherwise, neither is it probable that 

 Germany will get Mogador as a coaling station. 

 Everything seems to point to the impossibility of 

 arriving at any arrangement for dividing up Moroc- 

 co into spheres of influence in a Conference at 

 which the Moors themselves are represented. The 

 experience of the Euroi>ean Powers in dealing with 

 the Sultan of Turkey ought to have prepared us for 

 such a barren issue of the Conference of Algeciras. 



The fears entertained in some 



The quarters that the Kaiser would 



Dread of War. precipitate war with France 



over Morocco or any- other question 



-t:>ems \o be without any foundation in fact. The 



Germans know en'^^ugh of the actual fighting strength ingratitude as can be found in history. 



He never smokes, is not a theatre-goer, and goes to bel 



'T France to know that a march, tcv Paris would be 

 by no means a promenade. They know from Lord 

 Lansdowne's declaration that an unprovoked attack 

 on France would cost them their fleet ; and they also 

 realise that, although Russia is crippled by the 

 Japanese War, Russia is still the ally of France, 

 and can be depended ui)r,n to use her strength to 

 keep the peace. 1 he English journalists who are 

 perpetually gibing at the Kaiser as if he were the 

 deadly enemy cf this country, should rtmeml)er that 

 twice during the Boer War, when we had hardly a 

 soldier left in the country or a cartridge in our ar- 

 senals, the Kaiser stood between us and a European 

 coalition. The fact has never been officially pul> 

 lished, but the service which the Kaiser rendered us 

 at that time was gratefully recognised by Queen Vic- 

 toria, and neither in St. Petersburg nor in Paris is 

 there any mistake as to the action of the Kaiser in 

 that crisis. This Ix^ing so, the attacks made on the 

 Kaiser in the English Press — the English Jingo 

 Press — are about as abominable a sample of national 



