NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 24 February 1925
24 FEBRUARY 1925
A vote of £2,096,000 for the Ministry of Pensions was passed by the House of Commons. There was some criticism of hardship suffered under the policy of final awards, but the Minister of Pensions resisted a suggestion that the question should be reopened by an impartial Commission. A supplementary estimate of £1,250,000 for a grant in aid of the Government of Northern Ireland was agreed to after considerable discussion.
The Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons that in Japanese official and other well-informed circles it was realised that the improvement of the Singapore dockyard by Britain was a normal development of Naval policy. The two countries were firmly united, added Mr Baldwin, by common interests in the preservation of peace.
Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, that the British Government would not send an Ambassador to Moscow under present circumstances.
The King’s medical attendants saw His Majesty last evening, but issued no bulletin. It is understood that His Majesty’s satisfactory, though slow, progress continues.
A Berlin telegram announces the serious illness of President Ebert.
A deputation which was arranged by the Convention of Royal Burghs waited upon the Prime Minister and urged the desirability of raising the status of the office of Secretary for Scotland. According to an official report of the proceedings, the Prime Minister said that he viewed sympathetically the case which had been put forward, and promised to examine the subject without delay.
