14 JANUARY 1925
The final report of the financial experts at the Paris Conference will be placed before a concluding plenary session to-day. Ratification of the agreement by all the delegations is expected. France, it is reported, will sign unconditionally.
The White House contradicts reports that the change in the American Foreign Secretaryship would lead to modification of the foreign policy followed by Mr Hughes at the State Department. It is added that United States policy with regard to Russia will remain unchanged as long as conditions continue as they are.
A Melbourne telegram states that the Federal Parliament may be summoned to deal with the shipping strike.
A Berlin-Cologne express collided in dense fog with a stationary train at Herne, in Westphalia. Twenty-three of the passengers in the stationary train were killed, and 50 were injured. Three persons were killed and several injured in a similar accident at Hettingen, in the Ruhr.
Sixteen lives have been lost by the foundering of the Tyneside vessel John Harrison. The chief engineer resided in Ayr.
It was announced by Mr David Kirkwood that the Secretary for Scotland had decided to appoint a Commission to inquire into the Clydebank rent dispute. Further evictions took place at Clydebank in the morning, when a number of Pressmen were attacked by an unruly mob.