NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 11 January 1925

11 JANUARY 1925

US and British leaders argued at the Inter-Allied Financial Conference in Paris about money relating to war loans from the First World War. Belgium also said that it feared that their war reparations were being whittled down and Romania rejected allegations that it had done too well out of the conflict.

A telegram from Moscow stated that revolver shots were fired at Zinovieff, the leader of the Third International and President of the Leningrad Soviet. It was thought that none of the shots had hit their target.