On Monday M. Fallieres arrived at Reval on board the
Verite ' to pay a brief visit to the Czar. He was accom- panied by M. Pichon, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Czar's visit to the Write' lasted considerably longer than is usual in the first formal exchange of greetings. M. Fallieres conversed with the Czar, and M. Pichon with M. Isvolsky, the Russian Foreign Minister. In the evening the Czar gave a dinner on hoard the Standart.' In proposing the health of AI. Fallieres the Czar said :—" I thank you cordially for a visit which the whole of Russia greets as a new proof of the bonds of sincere and unalterable friendship which unite Russia and France. Your stay with us, I am persuaded, will result in still further strengthening those bonds, and will once more make clear the firm desire of the two friendly and allied countries to co-operate in maintaining and consolidating the peace of the world." N. Fallieres in his reply said that the Alliance of France and Russia was "receiving the priceless consecration of time." That Alliance, indeed, remains unshaken as the cardinal fact of French foreign policy.
