27 APRIL 1925
Hindenburg has been elected German President.
Communists at Plevna, in Bulgaria, have burned down the theatre and the municipal library there.
Speaking at the funeral of the victims of the Communist outrage in Paris, M. Millerand said that Republican France, after having repulsed the enemy from outside, was not going to tolerate civil war.
Anzac Day was observed in Australia and New Zealand. A special service of commemoration was held in London.
A memorial to the men of the Royal Naval Division who fell in the Great War was unveiled on the Horse Guards’ Parade, London. An address was delivered by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill.
“I can promise those who criticise that before the end of the year we shall have made quite a satisfactory start with the reforms we mean to carry out before we leave office in some four or five years’ time,” said the Premier, addressing the annual meeting of the Bewdley Division Unionist Association at Worcester. After weathering the trade crisis the country would emerge better, stronger, and sounder.
The King and Queen received a warm welcome in the streets of London on their homecoming.
Lord Weir and Sir John Gilmour took part in the formal opening at Newton-Stewart of the first municipal housing scheme of the Weir type completed in Great Britain. Lord Weir said Newton-Stewart had shown a progressive spirit in breaking away from tradition and a departure from the past rigidity of practice which ought to be an example to other communities.