NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 11 February 1925
11 FEBRUARY 1925
In the House of Lords, Marquis Curzon, replying to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who asked for information regarding the expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch from Constantinople, stated that in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government the dispute was one that ought to be settled by discussion and agreement between the two Governments concerned. They would use all their influence towards securing a peaceful solution by conciliation.
The second reading of the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Bill, which was moved in the House of Commons by the Secretary for Scotland, was agreed to. A motion for rejection, moved by the Rev. James Barr, was defeated by 252 votes to 110. Sir John Gilmour said the Bill would open the way for the Union which was desired by both Churches, and, he believed, by the vast majority of the Scottish people.
At question time in the House of Commons the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries announced that he proposed to appoint a Departmental Committee to inquire into the conditions under which horses are exported to the Continent.
The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, has intimated to the Town Council of Dundee his willingness to accept the freedom of Dundee.
The German Chancellor, at Cologne, declared that the German Government was ready to negotiate with the Allies regarding the evacuation of the Cologne zone and promptly to remove all legitimate doubts on their part in respect of disarmament. Berlin would, however, refuse to let evacuation be made dependent on a settlement of the question of security.
Two persons were killed and nearly a hundred injured in a Communist-Roman Catholic riot at Marseilles. A well-known local priest was assaulted and badly beaten on leaving the Catholic League Conference.
