16 APRIL 1925
Lagos gave the Prince of Wales a great welcome when he landed there. He afterwards left for Iddo, en route for Kano, on the frontier of French West Africa.
MR John Sargent, R.A., the famous portrait painter, is dead.
A motor car in which King Boris of Bulgaria was travelling was ambushed on the road to Sofia. M. Ilchieff, Chief of the Entomological Museum, and a servant were killed and the driver wounded. The King’s escape has been hailed with delight and relief in Sofia.
M. Painleve has accepted the task of forming a French Cabinet. It is reported that M. Caillaux will be given the portfolio of Finance.
According to a Berlin telegram, the German Nationalists believe that there is every possibility of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg being elected President of the Reich.
The unloading and assembling of the planes of the Amundsen Polar Expedition will begin as soon as the Farm and the Hobby, now at the edge of the ice in King’s Bay, Spitzbergen, can reach the shore. The expedition will then move to a new base, from which the flight to the Pole will be made as soon as good weather is forecast.
In his attempt to fly to the North Pole Captain Roald Amundsen is to have a rival in Mr. Gretir Algaitsson, who proposes to make the flight in a non-rigid airship, starting from a point north of Spitzbergen.
To a request of the Italian Government for delimitation of the frontier between Egypt and Tripoli according to the Milner-Scialoja agreement, the Egyptian Government is reported to have replied that it cannot accept determination of the frontier according to an agreement made with a foreigner in which it did not participate.
Mr William C. Leonard, presiding at Dumfries at the 28th annual Scottish Trades Union Congress, pleaded for a shorter working week.