24 JANUARY 1925, Page 2

The Situation in Italy remains substantially unchanged. On Friday the

new Fascist Electoral Law passed through the Chamber of Deputies. It has again been modified by the omission of the-elaborate plural voting clause, so that it now-provides for an eleotoral system not unlike uur own. In spite of the Liberal group having united against it, it was Carried by the large majority of 270. Meanwhile Fascist oppression in the country goes on unabated. The Opposition Press is completely gagged and bound while ,the Fascist Press indulges in language of almost unbeliev- able violence and extravagance which would be prosecuted as incitement to-murder in most- other countries.

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