NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 16 March 1925
16 MARCH 1925
The Council of the League of Nations has sent a conciliatory reply to Germany on the subject of her entry into the League.
Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Fulham, said his view was that the British Government rejected the Geneva Protocol simply because the Labour party had agreed to it.
A convention has been concluded by the Turkish Petroleum Company with the Iraq Government for the exploitation of the petroleum of Iraq, excluding Basra vilayet, for seventy-five years. Four groups will participate equally—the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the Royal Dutch Shell, seven of the principal American oil companies, and sixty-seven French concerns, the combined capital being nearly a thousand millions sterling. The convention stipulates that the Chairman shall always be British.
A violent storm which swept the Mediterranean and caused considerable damage to shipping forced the British Fleet to seek shelter at Palma, Majorca.
Provoked to riot by the action of the police in forbidding the translation of an English “comrade’s” speech into German, a gathering of German Communists at Halle was fired upon by policemen present. In the ensuing panic a rush was made for the exits, when the steps outside the main entrance collapsed, injuring many.
The Parliament of Northern Ireland has been dissolved, and the writs for a General Election have been issued. In Sir James Craig’s election manifesto the Boundary question is characterised as “the supreme issue.”
A special correspondent states that the results of the recent by-elections in the Irish Free State are, taken as a whole, highly encouraging to the Government.
