NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 10 January 1925

10 JANUARY 1925

The efforts of the German chancellor to form a cabinet have failed in the face of gathering obstacles, the last of them the attitude of the People’s party. President Ebert has been informed of the situation, and it is thought probable that he will ask Dr. Luther, the finance minister, to take up the task.

There was no full session of the inter-allied finance conference, but conversations between the heads of the principal delegations took place during the day. It is believed that satisfactory progress was made towards an Anglo-American understanding on reparation claims and towards a compromise with Belgium on the latter’s priority claim.

Marked “urgent and important,” the N.U.R. have forwarded a circular to all branches advising members not to join the proposed supplementary army reserve until satisfactory guarantees are obtained that under no circumstances will the reserve be used during a dispute between the railway companies and their employees.

A communist plot was discovered in Italy, where the police are continuing their campaign against all “subversive centres.”