NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 24 December 1924
24 DECEMBER 1924
The Government is sounding the Dominions and India will, according to the Times, be represented at a conference in March to discuss the questions arising out of the Geneva Protocol. Germany has notified the League of Nations that in the event of entry into the League she could not accept responsibilities under Article 10 of the Covenant.
The increasing hostility of the Russian peasants to Communism has caused the Moscow authorities to summon a conference for the revision of Soviet institutions.
The Egyptian Parliament has been dissolved by decree of King Fuad, and new elections will take place in February.
After several days’ hard fighting Scutari and Alessio have fallen into the hands of the insurgents in Albania.
The Ministry of Transport announces that the highway authorities of the country have been invited to collaborate with the Ministry in the modernisation of certain limited lines of national communication, and that the number of principal routes selected is main road schemes contemplated include a new high level bridge over the Tyne and a new crossing of the Tweed at Berwick.
Sir John Gilmour, M.P., Secretary for Scotland, was among the speakers at a “Come to Britain” dinner in London last night. Replying to the toast of “The Trade of the People,” he expressed the hope that the housing problem, the Scottish herring industry, and agriculture in the co-operation of Government, and employers in the building trade workers would have the co-operation of the Government and employers in the building of houses.
Sir James Craig, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in a Christmas message to the people of Ulster, says he is convinced that united action on the part of all in the return to stabilised conditions in Europe will eventually put the coping stone on the prosperity of the Imperial Province.
