NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 7 July 1924

7 JULY 1924

Édouard Marie Herriot, the French Premier, speaking at Troyes, said that his Government had two primary duties-to assure France’s credit and to organise peace. The first step to the latter must be the solution of the Reparations problem.

So far 77 ballots have been taken in the Democratic Convention at New York without a candidate being nominated for the Presidency. A conference at Cleveland, Ohio, has adopted Senator La Follette as an independent candidate.

Notwithstanding a suggestion by Lord Buckmaster at the Court of Inquiry that action on both sides should be postponed for a month, the strike in the building trade, which involves 600,000 men, began throughout the country.

The first attempt to lift the scuttled German destroyer V. 70 in Scapa Flow failed, the chains snapping when the vessel had been raised seven feet.

Mr Justice Feetham, the chairman-designate of the Irish Boundary Commission, announces that, with the approval of President Cosgrave and Sir James Craig, the informal discussions suggested by Mr Ramsay MacDonald is proceeding, and that facilities have been promised him for a tour of the border of a purely private character. He expresses the hope that during these discussions there will be abstention from controversial comment by the Press, both in Ireland and Britain.