Rome, July 20.
A. sensation was caused in Rome to-day when it became known that Hive Ministers in Mussolini's cabinet had resigned, They are: Signor 0 Grandi, Foreign Minister; Signor Mosconi, Minister of Finance; Signor Giuliano, Minister of Education; Signor Bottia, Minister of Corporations; and Signor Alfredo Rocco, Minister of Justice.
With these announcements comes another that Signor Mussolini, already Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, will take up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in place of Signor Grandi.
"The official explanation is that the resignation of the five Ministers is part of Signor Mussolini's scheme for changing the composition of the Government at certain periods in order to afford others a chance.
The more general impression however, is that their resignation due to the disappointment felt. by Duce over the failure of Signor Grandi and Signor Mosconi to get "a clean slate" for reparations and war debts at the recent conference at Lausanne.
addition to the five members of the Cabinet, a number of impor! ant under-secretaries have also teu-dered their resignations.
The new Minister of Finance is Signor Guido Jung, an expert on foreign trade, while Signor de Fra cise, Rector' of university of Rome, becomes Minister of Justice and Signor Creole, Rector of the University of Palermo, Minister of Edueat Berlin, July 28, The statement made by a' Nanking paper in connection with recent levants in Manchuria, that Japan hi Placed so many orders with 'Germany for war' material that the German arsenals were working full time thereon and, besides, were oblived even to have recourse to installing more workers in order to Jearry out these orders, are, as was to-day authoritatively declared wholly devoid of any foundation It is well-known, the statement declares, that the manufacture of war material in Germany for export to foreign countries is prohibited by law ever since the en-{forcement of the Treaty of Versailles, The fact that the carrying Jout of this prohibition is rigorously, controlled by the German authorities; venders it impossible that ders for the supply of war material, either to Japan or any other country, can have been executed in Germany. Whenever it happened that ships left German ports. with war material for the Far East board, such material was invariably produced in foreign lands and either passed through Germany in transit Jor was already stowed on board the ships before the latter arrived in Jand departed from German ports for the Far East—Trans-Ocean Kuo
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