NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 30 December 1924
30 DECEMBER 1924
The draft of the Allied Note to Germany on the subject of the evacuation of Cologne has been completed by the secretary of the Ambassadors’ Conference.
French Prime Minister Édouard Herriot, in a statement to the Senatorial Foreign Affairs Committee, referred to the cordial relations between the British and French Governments, and to the mutual understanding of interests and views that both are striving to establish in all international questions in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Far East.
South African opinion opposes the Geneva Protocol in its present form. Sir Abe Bailey declares that no body outside the South African Parliament must ever decide for South Africa whether it should go to war or not. Should Great Britain sign and the Dominions refuse, it would mean the breaking up of the British Empire, as no Dominion could escape Great Britain’s liability without seceding.
The East African National Congress, after a stormy debate at Nairobi, has adopted, on the advice of its President, Abdul Wahid, a Kenya merchant pioneer, a series of resolutions offering, on behalf of Indians in East Africa, entire co-operation with the Europeans for the next three years.
Over a hundred inmates of a private lunatic asylum which caught fire at Tokio are missing. A number of bodies have been recovered.
Mr Lloyd George at Criccieth said Liberalism would be the strongest force the Government would have to contend with before it reached the end of its term of office.
