1 OCTOBER 1925
In reply to a correspondent regarding the organisation for maintenance of supplies during a general strike, the Home Secretary says that citizens would be performing a patriotic act by allying themselves with this or any other similar body.
Lord Balfour and Sir Robert Horne have given their support to a movement under which the public will be given tuition by post to prepare them to refute Socialist and Communist arguments.
The policy of the Socialist party in industrial and Imperial affairs was discussed at the Liverpool Conference. An attempt to revive the Zinoviev letter controversy and to commit the party to an apology to the Soviet Government proved unsuccessful, the resolution tabled by the extremists being defeated on a show of hands.
In the French debt negotiations at Washington an approach to a compromise was reached.
Feeling in Germany is divided on the British and French Memoranda on Germany’s reply to the invitation to a conference on security.
Both the French and Spanish armies in Morocco have launched attacks on the Riff positions, and report their objectives as taken.
In order to meet the shortage of coal owing to the strike of American miners, New York dealers have concluded contracts for supplies from Wales.
The Prime Minister arrived in Glasgow. He will receive the freedom of the city today.