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Show ARMY QUESTION ! CAUSES FRENCH CABINET TO QUIT Monls Ministry Resigns Following Fol-lowing Adverse Vote in Chamber of Deputies. . PARIS, June 23. The government wu defeated in the chamtwr of deputies depu-ties todar on a question relative to the supreme command of the army in rase of war. ... i The deputies voted against the government gov-ernment 238 to 224 and this evening! the ministers decided to present their resignations to President l-'allieres. The adverse report of the chamber was due to the admission by General Goiran, the minister of war, in the senate last Tuesday, that the present organization of the army does not pro vide for a commander m chief in the time of war, the direction of operations ill ibe case of war being injtne hnrl of' a council of war muJe up of the ministers of war and tha generals ofj the armv. . . This announcement by the minister eame in the nature of a revelation to msnv parliamentarians. Todav in the chamber of deputies Deputy Hesse in terpolated the government on the subject sub-ject and opposed the system of military control as outlined by General Uoiran. Thereupon the government asked for a vote of confidence and failed to obtain a majority. The Monis- cabinet was formed on March 2, last, following the resignation resigna-tion of tha Briand ministry on February Febru-ary 27. -- |