18 MAY 1925
Recalling the Lee Commission’s recommendation that half the recruits should be British, Lord Birkenhead said that if their responsibilities for the good government of India were to be adequately discharged, British recruits must be obtained in that proportion.
Eight Indians were attacked in a house in Glasgow by a mob of young men, one being fatally stabbed. Nine arrests have been made by the police.
The death is announced of Mrs Baldwin, mother of the Prime Minister.
America has sent reminders to her European debtors to make a settlement for money borrowed during and after the war.
The Conference of Ambassadors will meet in Paris on Wednesday to consider the question of German disarmament.
In the Italian Chamber, during the debate on the Bill for the regulation of secret societies, Signor Mussolini said that no government could tolerate a state of affairs in which those responsible for the administration of justice and for the maintenance of order should serve two masters—their country and Freemasonry.
It is feared that many miners have lost their lives in consequence of an explosion in a pit near Dortmund, Germany.
Loudspeakers in St Peter’s, Rome, enabled sixty thousand of the faithful to hear the Pope’s voice.
In their report to the Trades Union Congress General Council, the British delegation which carried out investigations in Russia claims that the “Red Letter” was a forgery.
After a simple ceremony in Canterbury Cathedral, Viscount Milner was buried in the parish churchyard of Salehurst, near Robertsbridge, on the borderland of Kent and Sussex.