IN A QUANDARY

Grey River Argus, 11 July 1927, Page 5

IN A QUANDARY

FRENCH MINISTRY. Defeat Likely. (Times Cable.) LONDON", July 9. The Paris correspondent of The Times reports that an all-night sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, discussing electoral reform, was marked by a revival of the frenzied disorder and futile obstruction which disguised the country during the financial debits in 1926. The fight is raging around a proposal for single-member constituencies, which the Conservatives bitterly oppose. They twice forced a division by ballot occupying an hour, while four times a Deputy demanded an adjournment, mak ing a lengthy speech in doing so. When discussion was resumed, similar tactics were adopted in the afternoon, resulting in the Government apparently losing force. M. Poincare will risk losing the support of the Radicals if he agrees to the Conservative demand to scrap a single-member constituency, and vice versa, he will lose the Conservative vote. In either case the coalition is in a most precarious position.