Complete agreement was reached in the Irish boundary crisis. The settlement provides for the retention of the present boundary and for financial adjustments.
The Tithe Bill was read a second time and the Expiring Laws Bill a third time in the House of Lords.
Safeguarding resolutions imposing duties on imported fabric gloves, fur and leather gloves, and imported gas mantles were passed by the House of Commons in Committee of Ways and Means.
During an all night sitting on the duty for the safeguarding of the cutlery industry, the Socialist party, in its anxiety to obstruct the Government, unwittingly plunged the House of Commons into the first secret session since the outbreak of war in August 1914.
The Spanish Military Directory has resigned, and has been replaced by a civilian Cabinet. The King, in a message to General Primo de Rivera, the Prime Minister, says he trusts that within a reasonable period, which His Majesty hopes will be brief, the country will have constitutional laws of a normal character.
The French Chamber, after an all night sitting, passed M. Loucheur’s Finance Bill as a whole by 257 votes to 229. Fifty two Socialists abstained from voting, and this saved the Briand Government.