CAILLAUX, JOSEPH

(1863), Fr. statesman; ae ppt Parliament, and — soon was in high position in government; minister of finance, 1910; premier, 1911; | | but conduct of Franco-German Morocco ) crisis led to his fall. Again held port- — folio of finance, 1914, but tragic murder — by his wife, Mme. Caillaux, of M. Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, — March 1914, drove him from office. Mme. Caillaux was acquitted after trial — of five days. In 1918 M. Caillaux was © arrested for intriguing with the enemy, | but was not brought to trial till 1920, when the High Court of Justice found © him guilty and pa ed sentence of three © years’ imprisonment and deprivation of civic rights for ten years. Having already © been in prison for nearly three years, he was at once liberated. j imbuktu, 1827-28; pub. Journal of and ravels through Central Africa.