16 JANUARY 1925
A new German Cabinet has been formed, with Dr Luther as Chancellor and Herr Stresemann as Foreign Minister.
Correspondence between M. Clementel and Mr Churchill has been issued by the Foreign Office. In his letter of January 10, M. Clementel indicates the desire of the French Government to resume a friendly examination of the unsolved problem of inter-Allied debts, and asks whether the British Government adhere to the principles set out in their previous Notes, in particular the Curzon Note of August 11, 1923. Mr Churchill, replying on January 13, promises that the British Government “will endeavour to send an answer which will place the French Government in a position to present us with definite proposals,” and repeats “that the Balfour Note remains for us a dominating guide of principle.”
Mr. Wood, the Minister of Agriculture, at Stockton, said no agricultural policy was worth anything that could not on its face carry a reasonable guarantee of its own permanence. He deplored the fact that the workers refused to enter the proposed Conference, for it was an opportunity for them stating their own case which was not likely to recur in the lifetime of any of them.
Investigations regarding the disappearance of Miss Elsie Cameron took a sensational turn. Scotland Yard officers, in the course of digging operations at the farm of Mr Norman Thorne, the missing girl’s fiancé, came upon a suit-case containing a woman’s clothing, a pair of eyeglasses, and a chain bag, and later they discovered a body in three sections. Mr Thorne was detained by the police.
Evidence was given before the Commission on Food Prices by a Liverpool grain statistician and on behalf of the National Association of Flour Importers.