NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 20 January 1925

20 JANUARY 1925

Mr Hughes, the United States Secretary of State, says that the Paris Agreement imposes no obligation, legally or morally, on the United States, and that the country remains as free from commitment to European matters as ever.

The new German Cabinet were introduced to the Reichstag by Dr Luther, the Chancellor, who stated that the laws which had been enforced as the result of the London Agreement would be loyally carried out. He protested against the non-evacuation of the Cologne zone.

The Egyptian elections have been postponed—the primary elections until February 4, and the actual election of Deputies on March 12—owing to unavoidable delay in completing the lists. Secessions from the Zaghlulist party continue. Sir Geoffrey Archer’s announcement that a Sudanese defence force is to be formed immediately meets with a mixed reception in the Egyptian Press.

Interesting archæological finds have been made by the Boston-Harvard Expedition which has been working for several years in the vicinity of the Giz Pyramids.

Two British flying officers have been killed in aeroplane accidents in Palestine and Egypt.

The Danish Society of Naval Lieutenants are protesting against the present Danish Government’s scheme for the disarmament of the country.

Five lives were lost in an explosion which occurred in Kirkstyle Colliery, Kilmarnock.

Five men and a woman were detained by the New Scotland Yard in connection with an alleged plot to blow up British warships.