NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 13 June 1924

13 JUNE 1924

President Coolidge was nominated by the Republican Convention as candidate for the Presidency at the election in Autumn.

The election to the Presidency of the French Republic was scheduled to take place at the Palace of Versailles.

At the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, questions relating to Russian, Greek and Armenian refugees were considered, and it was decided after discussion to adopt the proposal of the High Commissioner that the International Labour Office should deal with the future settlement of refugees.

The appointment of Colonel William Robert Campion as Governor of Western Australia, in succession to Sir Franci Newdegate, created a vacancy in the representation of the Lewes Division of Sussex in Parliament.