15 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 2

5L Ribot; the veteran French statesman who became Premier once

again last March, resigned office on Friday week. The direct cause of this was the resignation of M. Malay, his Minister of the Interior. He fell as a result of the affair of the Bonnet Rouge, a scurrilous sheet of Pacificist and Anarchist tendencies, whose editor, H. Almereyda, had been arrested and was found dead in prison, and whose manager, M. Duval, when returning from Switzerland, carried a highly auspicious cheque for £6,000. H. Clemente= charged M Maley with culpable negligence in permitting the Bonnet Rouge to flourish, for the benefit of the enemy, and though IL Mabry repudiated all sympathy or connexion with M. Almereyda, he felt bound to resign.