3 JUNE 1925
The King’s Birthday Honours list contains no new peerage, but Baron Bearsted becomes a Viscount. Eight baronetcies are conferred.
The report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the difficulties in carrying out the provisions of the Rent Restrictions Acts in some districts in Scotland was issued.
The Allies’ Note on disarmament will be presented to the German Government tomorrow. Its publication at the end of the week, followed within a few days by the report of the experts on Germany’s treaty default, is expected. France has completed the draft of a Note to Germany on the proposed guarantee pact. She has accepted the British view.
Amundsen’s colleagues on the Farm at Wellman’s Bay, Spitsbergen, have given up hope of seeing him return by aeroplane, and patrolling of the ice-edge will begin tomorrow. The view is held that the machines were probably damaged on landing at the Pole, and that the airmen have set out for Cape Columbia on foot.
The Duke of York welcomed 700 American and Canadian medical men, who are visiting this country and the Continent under the auspices of the Inter-State Post-Graduate Assembly of America.
Further disturbances have occurred at Shanghai, where the position is serious, and a Note from the Chinese Government protesting against the action of the police in suppressing the riots by force has only served to encourage the agitators, who are being openly incited by Bolshevist agents.
All nine accused charged at Cairo with the murder of the late Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack, have been found guilty.
A police raid was made on a Communist Conference of women at St Mungo Hall, Glasgow. Each delegate was questioned, but no arrests were made.