LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ELECTIONS IX FRANCE. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyri^nt. PARIS, July 20. (Received July 21, at 12.10 p.m.) The elections to the Couucils-General have so far resulted in the Left Bloc winning forty-seven scats—namely, forty-throe from tho Right and four from the Communists. MM. De Monzie, Schmidt, and Dura (four were rc-elected.—Reuter.
[For administrative _ departments Franco is divided into ninety departments. The unit of government is the commune, and the local affairs of the commune are under a municipal council, hut each act of these councils must receive the approval of the prefect, while many must be submitted to the General Council for the district, or even to the President of the Republic, before becoming lawful. The noxc unit is the canton, which is composed of an average of twelve communes. Each canton has one member on the district Council-General. These number 885.] v
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Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 8
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