18 APRIL 1925
The British airship R 33, after breaking from her moorings at Pulham, with 20 of a crew, and being driven across the North Sea to the Dutch coast, was safely navigated back to Pulham after being nearly 30 hours in the air.
Upwards of a hundred people were killed and many hundreds injured by the explosion of an infernal machine in the Cathedral Church at Sofia. Martial law has been proclaimed by the Bulgarian Government. The frontier has been closed, all transport stopped, and the arrest of Communists and others hostile to the present rulers of the country ordered.
A Paris telegram states that the new Ministry will present its declaration of policy to Parliament on Tuesday. Its fate both in the Senate and in the Chamber is dubious.
Dr. Stresemann, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared in a speech at Hamburg, referring to the coming Presidential election, that the basis of their foreign policy could not be changed by a political vote on internal affairs.
A Cape Town telegram reports that there is a strong feeling in Natal favouring the secession of the Province from the Union. The anti-British policy of the present Nationalist Government is bitterly resented.