NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 31 December 1923

31 DECEMBER 1923

Advices from Calcutta indicate the anxieties of the Viceroy. No official explanation was given as to the abbreviation of his Burma tour.

Sir Auckland Geddes has resigned his post as British Ambassador to the United States and will be succeeded by Sir Esme Howard. Sir Horace Rumbold has been appointed as the British Ambassador to Spain.

FB Kellog, the new American Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London.

The death was announced of General Buat, the Chief of General Staff of the French Army.

Relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were reported to be strained owing to a speech by the Bulgarian Premier, which was regarded in Belgrade as a challenge to the Yugoslavs.

A number of Bulgarian communists were expelled from Austria.