commissioned officers and men of a French infantry regiment. The
plan was to seize ammunition and march to Alhi, sixty miles away, and join another revolting regiment. Major Angleby, with extraordinary pluck, knocked down the bugler who blew the call for the outbreak, and then, single-handed, opposed eight non-commissioned officers. He stood his ground till help came, and within three-quarters of an hour all the mutineers were arrested. The outbreak is said to have been due to the preaching of the anti-militaristorganizations, particularly the " Sou du Soldat," a society, under the General Confedera- tion of Labour, which nominally exists for supplying conscripts with pocket-money, but actually encourages them persistently to desert and mutiny. On Sunday fifty thousand Socialists gathered at the Pre Saint Gervais to protest against three years' service. In spite of the general forebodings there was no rioting. The Socialistic opposition to the three years' service proposal has reached such a point that M. Poincare has called in M. C]emenceau to consult with him, in spite of M. Clemenceau's recent violent opposition to his candidature for the presidency. H. Clemenceau accuses the Government of crass weakness, and says that for the French people it is a simple choice between three years' service and eclipse as a nation. That is surely putting it somewhat high.
