The resignation of M. Leon Bailby, the distinguished - editor
of the Intransigeant on a controlling interest in his paper, which has always supported • the Right, being - acquired by financial forces representing the Left, is an example of vicissitudes to which French newspapers are much more subject than English. The Malin has fairly recently changed hands and lost- its most distinguished contributor, M. Jules Sauerwein, iii consequence. M. Marcel Ray left the Petit Journal for similar reasons. The Temps, as most people know, is now controlled by the Comite des Forges, representing the iron and steel and armaments industry. In this country I can remember no notable change of policy as result of change of ownership since the Free Trade Standard was sold to the chairman of the Tariff Reform League, Mr. Arthur Pearson, in 1904 —and rapidly became a negligible force.
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