NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 1 February 1924

1 FEBRUARY 1924

In his speech at the State opening of the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Viceroy, Lord Reading, emphasised the necessity for preserving continuity of progress in the reform movement, and said that the future of the reforms rested largely with the people of India and the legislature.

The French Government indicated that they were pleased with the correspondence of Ramsay MacDonald, the new Prime Minister, on the matter of international relations.

The Irish Boundary Conference opened in London.

According to a Colonial Office statement, the whole question of the employment of aircraft in Iraq in support of the civil authorities was being considered by the Government.