14 APRIL 1925
A message from the Amundsen expedition records the arrival of the transport farm at Spitzbergen after encountering fog and drift ice. Weather forecasts have held good, and the meteorological service aboard is operating satisfactorily.
M. Briand has not yet formed a Cabinet. A message from Paris last evening says that M. Briand appears to have resolved to do his utmost to form a Government in the national interest, even should the Socialists refuse to allow their Parliamentary leaders to serve in his Cabinet.
Two important Franco-German diplomatic instruments were signed in Paris for the purpose of confirming certain frontier modifications imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
Sir A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post and The Scotsman, describes the spread of the drug habit among young people in the United States since the passage of the Prohibition Law.
The U.S. Supreme Court has held as unconstitutional the compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes.
The condition of Mr. Massey, the New Zealand Premier, is reported to be critical.
The circumstances attending the recovery of the body of the lost climber on Ben Achalader are described. Some importance is attached locally to a clairvoyant’s description of where the body was to be found.
At the I.L.P. Conference Mr. Ramsay MacDonald replied to criticism from within the party of the work of the late Socialist Government.
MR. J. Ramsay MacDonald, addressing a meeting at Staple Hill, Gloucestershire, criticised the suggested relief in income-tax in the forthcoming Budget.