19 JANUARY 1925
Trotsky’s quarrels with the Russian Communist Executive have led to his dismissal from the post of President of the Revolutionary War Council.
Mr Harvey, former American Ambassador in London, in an article in a Washington newspaper on the results of the Paris Financial Conference, says Mr Coolidge has been trapped by the intriguing diplomats of Europe.
A Paris telegram announces the death of General Lanrezac, who commanded the Fifth French Army at the Battle of Mons.
Five persons were killed and three injured in a railway accident near Dijon.
Captain John Middleton, an ex-officer of the Black Watch, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his father’s house at Baldarroch, near Murthly, Perthshire. His father, Major Middleton, who is over 70 years of age, has been taken into custody by the police in connection with the tragedy.
The Hon. Cwyneth Erica Morgan, Lord Tredegar’s daughter, has been missing for several weeks from the time she unexpectedly left the house of friends at Wimbledon with whom she had been staying.
Dr John Fraser, formerly Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, who met with an accident in Princes Street a week ago, died in Edinburgh yesterday. He was in his eightieth year.
The death is announced of Mr Samuel Storey, a well-known North of England newspaper owner and former M.P. for Sunderland.