And from these places, sometimes the most incongruousone hears, for instance, of M. Delcasse maintaining his dignity in a bedroom now used as the office for the minister of foreign affairsthe red tape is unwound which eventually sends the life-blood of the remotest province flowing up to its appointed place at the front.

M. Delcasse said that the Chamber did not feel that the Government should discuss a current question of international law, but he pointed out the fact that France with the other Great Powers had declared her neutrality at the beginning of hostilities.