The Italian Cabinet has resigned.
General Pelloux, the Premier, stated that the debate showed a large minority opposed to the Cabinet's Chinese policy, consequently it was futile to prolong a discussion which might impair the prestige of the country.
[General Pelloux formed a Liberal Ministry in June 1898, after the Marqui @i Rudini had tried unsuccessfully to reform his administration, after the riots which broke out all over the country.—Ed., W.-C. D. News.)
London, 5th May.
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