NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 15 December 1924
15 DECEMBER 1924
Édouard Herriot, the French Prime Minister, is suffering from para phlebitis of the right leg, induced by the strain of overwork, and the possibility that he may be compelled to resign the French Premiership is admitted even in Government circles.
Before dispersing the League of Nations Council at its closing session in Rome disposed of several questions relating to national minorities. The Permanent Court of International Justice is to be asked to give an advisory opinion with regard to Greeks “established” at Constantinople, whose case has been discussed in connection with exchange of Turk and Greek minorities.
Judgment was given by Lord Blackburn in the action in the Court of Session arising out of the stoppage of work in connection with the erection of a new church in Cathcart parish, Glasgow.
Recent statements that the South African Government was negotiating with German interests, for the establishment of an iron industry in South Africa are the subject of a published correction by the Managing Director of the South African Iron and Steel Corporation. “Recent developments,” he says, “are merely due to the impossibility of obtaining the necessary assistance from the British side, and surely nobody could blame the South African Steel Corporation for going elsewhere.”
A Sub-Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives which drew up the naval appropriations for the next fiscal year deny that America’s naval prestige is rapidly waning. Two battleships are being transformed into aircraft carriers, giving the country a greater tonnage of such vessels than any other nation apart from Great Britain.
