NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 1 June 1925

1 JUNE 1925

The Ambassadors’ Conference agreed on the text of the Allied Note to Germany on the disarmament question, which was afterwards dispatched to Berlin. Complete agreement is said to exist between London and Paris on all essentials concerning a security pact.

The police fired on a crowd of anti-Japanese rioters at Shanghai, seven of whom were killed and four severely wounded.

According to Johannesburg reports, the ballot being taken by the Miners’ Union in the Transvaal is likely to favour a strike.

M. Rakovsky, the Soviet Chargé d’Affaires in London, is stated to have received a threatening letter. His headquarters have been placed under police protection.

President Coolidge, urging in his Memorial Day address at Washington the better enforcement of the law in America, drew an unfavourable comparison of the crime record of the United States with that of Great Britain and other older countries.

Lord Oxford and Asquith have been appointed Knights of the Garter.