NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 1 September 1924

1 SEPTEMBER 1924

The London Agreement was signed at the Foreign Office, London, by representatives of the Allied-German Governments. The proceedings were of a purely formal character, and no speeches were delivered.

The French Government replies to the manifesto of the German Government denying that Germany was responsible for the war by reminding Germany that the world has already pronounced judgement upon the nation which, many years before the war broke out, had made up its mind to march through Belgium.

At a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at Geneva, the question of the manufacture and traffic in arms and ammunition was discussed, and in the interests of peace and security the calling of an international conference was suggested.

The League of Nations Council held its thirtieth session at Geneva. Among the subjects discussed were reports on slavery, the opium traffic; the protection of women and children in the Near East, the financial reconstruction of Hungary, and the Turkey-Iraq frontier.

Efforts are being made to disperse the Chinese war clouds. The Peking Foreign Office has assured the British, American, French, and Japanese Ministers that it does not want civil strife, and is endeavouring to avert warfare.