PREMIER RESIGNS.
CRISIS IN BELGIUM. A DOMESTIC QUESTION. AN ELECTION PROBABLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 15, 5.5 p.m. Brussels, June 14. M. Theunis’ Cabinet has resigned. The King will hold the usual consultations to-morrow. It is probable M. Theunis will be asked to form a new Cabinet, but the task will be most difficult. It is thought a dissolution of Parliament and a general election will be necessary before a new Government can be constituted. The Senate, by 143 votes to 4, rejected a Bill providing for instruction in Flemish at Ghent University. Higher education throughout Belgium at the present time is only possible in the French language, but the war created a demand for a Flemish University. The problem of using Flemish in Ghent divided Belgium politics keenly in 1922, when the Chamber voted against a compromise making the university half French and half Flemish, but favored a gradual increase in the use of Flemish.
The Senate’s decision led to the Cab inet’s resignation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1923, Page 5
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