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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12

LATE NEWS

NEW FRENCH MINISTRY INNER WAR CABINET PARIS, Mar. 22. (Received Mar. 23, at 2 a.m.) The new Ministry includes an Inner War Cabinet comprising M. Reynaud, M. Chautemps. M. Daladier, M. Lamoureux, and M. Mandel, and an Interministerial Economic Council similar to Britain's, comprising M. Lamoureux and all the Ministers dealing with national economy. The new portfolios are Supplies and Information. M. Reynaud in a statement said the Ministry was numerically similar to M. Clemenceau's War Cabinet, but the Inner Cabinet and the Economic Council were important differences. He added that the former would meet three times a week and the latter once a week.

SOVIET'S BALTIC FLEET BASE AT VIIPURI MOSCOW, Mar. 22. (Received Mar. 23, at 2 a.m.) Pravda says Viipuri will be eciuipped as an important war base and will be able to accommodate the largest warships of the Soviet's Baltic fleet within a month. ALBERTA ELECTIONS CLOSE CONTEST INDICATED EDMONTON, Mar. 22. (Received Mar. 23, at 2 a.m.)

It will be at least a day before the results of the Alberta general election are known, and a second count will be necessary in a majority of the constituencies. In contrast to the landslide which swept the Social Credit Party into power a quinquennium ago, the Aberhart Government is running neck and neck with the leaderless Coalition, the members of which are standing as Independents. The latest figures show that the state of parties is as follows:Social Credit 7 Independent 6 Social Credit candidates are leading in 25 constituencies, Independent in 17, a Socialist in 1, and a Labour candidate in 1.