Malta, June 9.
The Italian newspaper cor respondent, who was mobbed "here yesterday, and two other Italian Press correspondents left Malta last night.
June 11.
The Archbishop of Malta has! strongly protested to the Governor: Jagainst the action of the police on the occasion of the popular demonstration after the Whitsunday service in the Cathedral on June 8, when crowds assembled in the streets shouting, "Long Live Strickland! Down with Mussolini! Long Live England! Down with Italy!"
In his protest the Arthbishop says that the police gave the demonstrate ors every chance of creating a disturbance, and invites an assurance {that in future the action of the police will be such as to inspire full confidence, regardless of the interests of the persons on whom the police depend and whom it may suit to stage an artificial situation in the country.
The Archbishop also deeply regrets, that the Governor has allowed the Government Gazette to be used to enable Lord Strickand, the Premier, to publish a series of libels against the Church and the clergy.
June 13.
Lord Strickland, the Premier, leaving for London to-morrow to confer with the Colonial Office in regard to the present critics! situation in Malta. His departure was quite unexpected.
The present critical situation in Malta is the result of serious ction, which has recently come to a head, between the Government of Malta snd the Catholic Church, i which the Archbishop of Malta, the Bishop of Gozo and the Holy' See are involved—Reuter.
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