ITALIAN PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 7

ITALIAN PARLIAMENT

OPPOSITION ATTENDS MEMORIAL SITTING

IN HONOUR OF LATE QUEEN MOTHER

Home, January 1.7,

The deputies belonging to the’ Avenune Opposition, who hitherto have boycotted Parliament, returned to the Chamber at the memorial sitting in honour of the Queen Mother. The House was draped in black, and the galleries packed while the deputies listened, standing, to speeches paying tribute to the late Queen Mother, after which the House adjourned as a token of mourning. There was a regrettable incident in the lobbies subsequently, Fascists and Aveii'inists coming to blows.—Reuter.

(Rec. January 18, 8.35 p.m.) Koine, January 17. Contempt and indignation over the action of deputies of the Aventine Opposition attending the memorial sitting of the Chamber to the Queen Mother were expressed bv Signor Mussolini in a much-applauded speech in Parliament. He said the Avcntinists could not be tolerated in the Chamber until tb.ev acknowledged the Fascist revolution as an accomplished fact and admitted that the anli-Fascist campaign airainst the Government was bankrupt, as they had no legitimate grievance, and disavowed the activities of Italians conducting the anti-Fascist campaign abroad.—Reuter.