AT 10 PM A COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WAS HELD AT THE ÉLYSÉE

MARSHAL FOCH WAS HEARD BY THE COUNCIL

Before the departure of the French Prime Minister, the heads of delegation discussed in London the questions raised by the military evacuation of the Ruhr and the inter-allied debts.

The English troops will not evacuate the British zone of Cologne before the conditions provided for in the treaty are fulfilled.

It was with cries of: "Long live peace! Down with war!" that the President of the Council, returning from London, was greeted yesterday evening at the Gare du Nord by an impressive crowd, which overflowed from the arrival yard into the neighboring streets and literally overwhelmed the security service. The Boulogne train, announced for 9 PM, was ten minutes late. The entire cabinet had come to wait for Mr. Herriot, who was so quickly grabbed by his colleagues that behind him, Mr. Clémentel, Minister of Finance, and General Nollet, Minister of War, were not seen getting out of the presidential carriage.

To the great despair of the photographers who, carried away by the demonstrators, were unable to take any pictures, Mr. Herriot disappeared into the crowd, from which only the hand he was holding out to the chief engineer of the express emerged.

It took the members of the cabinet no less than five minutes to lead the President of the Council to his car.

Everything is fine, everything is fine! Mr. Herriot told the journalists. I will not leave until tomorrow evening. Let me sleep tomorrow morning, because we will be working late into the night.

The president got into his car with Mr. Israël and Messrs. Labonne and Moutet, deputy heads of his cabinet. He was first driven to the Quai d'Orsay.
Time to freshen up, he said, smiling at the reporters who were eager to question him.

But Mr. Herriot had barely gone back down to his office when Marshal Foch arrived, in his travel overcoat and straw holiday hat.

The marshal, summoned by the President of the Council by telegram in the morning, had left his holiday home in Morlaix to come to Paris, where he arrived at 5 p.m. While the ministers were gathered in the rotunda salon. Mr. Herriot conferred with Marshal Foch one-on-one until 10 p.m. Mr. Painlevé, President of the Chamber, who arrived at 9:50 p.m., was introduced to the ministers and left almost immediately afterwards.

The President of the Council, preceding Marshal Foch, left the Quai d'Orsay at 10 p.m. 10 to reach the Elysée, accompanied by Mr. Rippault.
— Just one question, Mr. President, we said the second Mr. Herriot got into the car. Is the conference going to continue for much longer?
— Well, I don't know.
— Is the conference going to let itself be paralyzed by the question of the evacuation of the Ruhr, foreign to its program and to the Dawes plan?
— I will tell you that later. Mr. Herriot hurriedly got into his car, which, to enter the courtyard of the Elysée, had to avoid the Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, whose roadway is also being disrupted by repairs.

The ministers had been seated around the Council table for a good ten minutes when Mr. Herriot greeted the President of the Republic. It was immediately decided that Marshal Foch, whose car had followed that of M. Herriot, would be heard

Let us add that General Nollet, questioned on his arrival at the Elysée, spoke out energetically against the rumors of disagreement within the French delegation at the London conference, rumors spread in recent days in certain French newspapers.

The situation is not bad, he said. But the negotiations are not yet over. I sincerely believe that the conference will result in an agreement. We will leave tomorrow for London.

Indeed, barring any unforeseen event, the departure of M. Herriot and General Nollet is set for 8:45 p.m., via Dieppe. M. Clémentel, who prefers not to travel at night, will leave at 4 p.m., via Boulogne. -

MARCEL PAYS