SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
RESIGNATION OF CABINET.
MINISTERS DISAGREE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9 p.m.) MADRID. Sept. 3.
The Cabinet has resigned owing to three Ministers opposing the establishment of a line of defence at Melilla some way beyond the present positions of the troops. Ministers complain that the scheme is too costly.
The Prime Minister proposes to reconstruct the Cabinet, replacing the three Ministers with others in favour of a forward policy.
. The Minister for Finance, who resigned, said he did not want to be lynched by a revolting population. , Other Ministers retorted that the resignation of the Minister for Finance Would incite the people to lynch them as they would be held responsible for the Moroccan war. The political situation is becoming chaotic
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18495, 4 September 1923, Page 7
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