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Show FRENCH NAVAL ATTACHE FOR BUENOS ATRES PA Rift, b. 12. Tha chamber of depot! dep-ot! baa adopted a recommendation to tba French government for tha appointment appoint-ment oi a naval attache at Buenoe Ayr as. from which place he will observe the naval progress of all the ftouth American atatea. It Is proposed to gt him a salary sal-ary of 1000 a year. Deputy Charles rruamter dunna tbe duK-uaeioa aaid the principal Houth American Amer-ican government poaeossed naval vea sola of a total tonnage of 370,000- He aaeert -ed that the United tSatas. by Its attention atten-tion to South America, bad bean able to take from Oraat Britain numbera of order for draadnaudhta which normally would have gone there, aad he concluded by sarins; that Prance must be represented repre-sented la Boqtb America by a naval officer. |