Ex-Premier Charged with Violation of the Constitution Oslo, Oct. 4.
The tris! began in the Supra State Court to-day of the septuagenarian ex-Premier Berge and members of his Cabinet on a charge of violating the Constitution in supporting the Norwegian Bank of Commerce in 1923 and 1924 by a deposit of kroner 25,000,000.
Following an economic crisis due to the War Parliament passed an Act providing for the public administration of insolvent ben Early in 1923 the Bank of Commerce appealed for secret Government help; hence the Government deposit. The Bank was again in difficulties in 1924. response to the Government, Parliament sanctioned a guarantee of kroner 15,000,000 to the Bank of Norway against a loss in respect of support given the Bank of Commerce, The Government did not reveal the 25 million deposit. The Bank of Commerce in October, 1924, was phoed under the Public and is at present! ial is purely constitutional, there being no question of private as the voyages of Magellan or of Drake must have done in other} days.
The "Times" says: "In the great crowds that craned their necks skywards as the De Havilland '59° flew up the Thames, there must have been many who, thinking of the vast spaces that it had traversed, were led to revise their individual' views of the safety and the mode of travel by air!
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