VICTORIAN ELECTIONS

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1937, Page 5

VICTORIAN ELECTIONS

124 NOMINATIONS. MELBOURNE, September 18. When nominations closed for the Assembly elections 124 candidates were announced for sixty-live electorates. There will, however, be contests in only forty-five electorates. Twenty retiring members are returned unopposed, comprising eleven United Country Party members, four United Australia Party members and five Labour members. and dropped six heavy bombs near the British destroyer, Fearless. No damage was done. ITALIAN TROOPS. GOING TO AFRICA. ROME, September 18. The Press reveals that 231 officers and 2,791 men, including two battalions of infantry, a machinegun battalion and a battery of artillery, sailed this evening for Libya. Three battalions have departed to East Africa. ROME, September 17. Official circles categorically deny a report in the Paris Socialist newspapers that Italy sold to General Franco 12 submarines which were manned with Italian volunteers. A report that Signor Mussolini had sent 12 submarines to the Dardanelles with instructions to engage in piracy is also denied.

TROOPS NOT FOR SPAIN. ROME, September 18. “The Italian Foreign Oflice cannot assume the task of denying all of the tendenticious repo r ts of Italian activities that are emanating from Red sources,” was the declaration issued here, following on a French report that seven thousand more Italian troops had landed at Morocco. ITALIAN ATTACKS. ON BRITISH PRESS REPORTS. ROME, September 18. There are renewed attacks in the Italian press on British newspapers. The Italian troops’ movements recall that Italy acted in a similar manner, following on the dispatch of the British Fleet to the Mediterranean Sea during the Abyssinian crisis. There is at present no official confirmation of a statement that troops going to Libya are “engaged on Mediterranean defence work.” INSURGENT WARSHIP.

CAPTURES ENEMY SHIPS. SALAMANCA, September 18. A communique claims that the warship, Canarias, after fighting and dispersing an escort of three Republican destroyers, captured two Spanish merchantmen!, which were carrying supplies to Minorca.-