NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 6 January 1925
6 JANUARY 1925
The Allies’ Note to Germany points out that the evacuation of Cologne has been postponed because of definite breaches of the Treaty of Versailles in the matter of army organisation, military stores, conversion of munition factories, and other matters. The more important of these violations are set out in the Note.
The Conference of Allied Finance Ministers opens at Paris tomorrow. The official agenda involves the question of the allocation of the proceeds of the Ruhr occupation and that of the American claim for reparation. On the latter point, a Note has been received by Britain from the United States Government rejecting the compromise offered.
A Rome telegram states that all the organisations hostile to the Government have been dissolved. Liberal members of the Cabinet have resigned.
M. Raditch, the leader of the recently suppressed Croat Peasant party, who is accused of intriguing with the Soviets, has been arrested at Agram.
Attention is drawn by the Federation of British Industries to the suggestion that the South African Government is considering the withdrawal of the tariff preference at present given to many classes of British goods.
New Year trade forecasts for Canada strike an optimistic note, and a marked improvement in conditions in the West is emphasised. Attention is drawn to the great increase of investments of U.S. capital in the Dominion, and to the almost negligible investment of Scottish and English capital in Canadian securities during the past year.
Launching the Young Liberals’ 1925 campaign at the National Liberal Club, London, Mr Lloyd George claimed that Liberalism had saved Germany and France from disaster, and would ultimately save Italy. There never was a period in European history where nations stood more in need of Liberalism.
