Mr. Scullin's Defeat The Labour Government in Australia, having survived
all its financial crises and the discontents caused by the hard necessity of accepting the sound advice given it by Sir Otto Niemeyer, has fallen through a split in its own ranks, of which the Opposition took prompt advan- tage. Friction between Mr. Scullin, the Federal Prime Minister, and Mr. Lang, Prime Minister of New South Wales, who definitely urged the repudiation of Australia's external obligations, is perpetual, and when the Lang group in the Federal Parliament on Wednesday moved what was in effect a vote of censure on Mr. Theodore, the Federal Treasurer, in respect of some alleged -irregu- larities, the opposition parties threw in their votes against the Government, which was defeated by 37 to 32. Labour stands little chance of success at the coming election. * . *
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