"Lang Is Right!"

Melbourne, Australia's biggest city, is in Victoria, and last week Edmond John Hogan, Victoria's Labor Premier, was in London. A cablegram woke him in the middle of the night to tell him that he had just been kicked out of office by a no-confidence vote in the Legislature of 29-25. Oracles picked Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle, leader of the Opposition, to succeed him.

In tumultuous New South Wales 25,000 roaring supporters of tumultuous Premier John Thomas Lang organized themselves into a self-styled "Red Army" (non-Communist), and paraded the streets under banners blazoned LANG IS RIGHT!

The Commonwealth Government of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, weary of paying New South Wales's repudiated debts (TIME, April 6, 1930, et seq.) continued its efforts to impound New South Wales funds. Mr. Lyons issued a proclamation attaching betting tax receipts at race courses, entertainment taxes at theatres, and the receipts of state-owned railways in New South Wales. State Premier Lang swiftly countered by ordering that all railway receipts must not be handled by banks, but sent direct to Sydney under armed guard. During the night his agents changed all the locks on all the doors of the state tax office to prevent Federal agents from attaching taxpayers' records.

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