GOVERNMENT TECHNICALLY DEFEATED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16718, 12 June 1916, Page 5

GOVERNMENT TECHNICALLY DEFEATED.

SITUATION SOMEWHAT SERIOUS. ROME, June 11. (Received June 11, at 5.5 p.m.) The Government was technically defeated on a motion for granting the monthly votes, on account of the Chamber refusing to insert words expressing confidence in the Government. ROME, June 11. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent writes: "The Parliamentary situation is somewhat serious. Several Liberal Deputies reproach the Government with withholding from Parliament information regarding the military and diplomatic relations and also with isolating themselves from the opinion of the nation and its allies."

Signor Salandra, who previously participated in the discussion, said it was specially important in view of the gravity of the present moment, which demanded an explanation of the international and military situation upon which the attention of the Parliament and the country was anxiously fixed. He declared that the unity of the Allies was increasing, instancing the fact of Italy's resistance enabling the Russians to advance victoriously. The same co-operation was seen in economic and financial measures, notably in the forthcoming Paris Conference, though no definite engagements would be taken there, and future action v. ould bo resen ed for Parliament. ITALIAN TRANSPORT SUNK. HALF THE SOLDIERS DROWNED. ROME, June 10. (Received June 11, at 5.5 p.m.) Two submarines attacked three Italian transports in the Lower Adriatic and torpedoed the Principe Umberto, which sank in a few minutes. About half the soldiers were drowned.