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13 MAY 1925

Mr Baldwin, replying to a deputation from the Amalgamated Engineering Union who approached him on the question of trade depression, gave an assurance that the Government would lose no opportunity of forwarding any practicable plan that seemed likely to lead to its alleviation.

Mr Baldwin has promised the aid of Government Departments in giving all possible information to the Joint Committee, composed of representatives of the masters and men in the shipbuilding industry, which is investigating the question of foreign competition and other causes of the present depression.

Amidst pomp approaching almost that of pre-war Imperial days, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg took the oath of the Republican Constitution in the Reichstag. The proceedings were interrupted by the Communist Deputies, who, after shouting “Down with the Monarchist President,” left the hall.

A Paris telegram announces the death of General Mangin, the famous French soldier.

At the close of the “Little Entente” Conference at Bukharest, statements were made to the Press by the chief delegates, in which reference was made to the situation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lord Milner’s condition gives rise to grave anxiety.

The King has awarded the Albert Medal to Veladi Sammai, an Indian, who showed great gallantry in saving the life of a British official when the latter was attacked by a tiger.

12 MAY 1925

The Gold Standard Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords.

The Budget resolution imposing the silk Customs duties was carried in the House of Commons by 330 to 166, after Socialist amendments—first, for their postponement until December 1929, and second, for omission of the duty on artificial silk—had been rejected. The Finance Bill was introduced and read a first time.

Questioned in the House of Commons with regard to an American newspaper’s publication of a document purporting to have been written by him and giving official outlines of British policy in Europe, Mr Austen Chamberlain deprecated any official statement as to how far the document was correct or not. He added that no statement of British policy contradicting his declaration in the House on 24 March had any authority whatever.

The Government’s decision to institute an inquiry into systems of disinterested management of licensed premises, including State management at Carlisle and elsewhere, was made known in the House of Commons.

The King and Queen yesterday attended a matinee at the Adelphi Theatre, London, in aid of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses.

The Prince of Wales took part in a springbok shoot school.

Mr Baldwin, in a message of sympathy to the Governor-General of New Zealand on the death of Mr Massey, recalled the late Premier’s whole-hearted care for the honour, safety, and well-being of the Empire.

11 MAY 1925

The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was opened by the King.

The death is announced of Mr Massey, Premier of New Zealand.

In a statement to the French Cabinet with regard to the German proposals for a security pact, M. Briand said that his draft note would not insist on Germany’s entry into the League as a preliminary condition for discussing the project, but the Berlin Government is to be informed that France will decide nothing definitely until this step has been taken.

M. Caillaux’s statement on the French policy, which involves the imposition of new taxation, was unanimously approved by the French Cabinet.

Captain Amundsen has decided to postpone the start of the Polar flight on account of the wintry conditions at Spitsbergen.

Twenty-one lives were lost through the capsizing of an American government steamer conveying excursionists from the Engineering Convention down the Mississippi below Memphis.

Lord Milner’s condition is causing anxiety.

The Hon. Francis John Lascelles, half-brother of the Earl of Harewood, was found dead under tragic circumstances at his residence, Lee House, Romsey, Hampshire.

Rev. Dr John White, Barony Church, Glasgow, made reference to the Church Bill in conducting a jubilee service in Hurlford Parish Church. He said that the chief obstacle to progress of the Union movement in Scotland since the war had been the dilatoriness of Parliament.

Immodesty, lack of parental control, class selfishness, growth of superstition, and abounding pleasure-seeking are among the tendencies deplored by the Committee on Religion, Morals, and Temperance in the report to be submitted to the forthcoming General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.

10 MAY 1925

It was reported that the health of the Earl of Ypres was declining.

A 99 year old lady was admitted to Winslow workhouse.

Five new justices, including two woman, were appointed to the Highgate Bench.