20 APRIL 1925
A section of the Lisbon garrison were involved in a revolutionary outbreak. The rising was suppressed after a bombardment, in which some hundred were wounded.
Hundreds of arrests of Communists have been made at Sofia. The victims of the Cathedral explosion were buried in one enormous grave.
Field-Marshal Von Hindenburg, in answer to questions put by Reuter’s correspondent, said the question of Republic or Monarchy is at present nowhere under discussion in German politics, that the question of the alteration of frontiers on the east must be settled by negotiations, that he had always spoken against warlike adventures, and that Germany was not even capable of waging a defensive war against one of her neighbours, who had each bigger standing armies than Germany had.
The Duke and Duchess of York have returned to London after a tour of over four and a half months in Africa.
Mr Ramsay MacDonald, at Penzance, said that there was a large section of the Tory party, especially the young Tories, who were men of great promise. When they faced the problem of a national policy the partition between them and the Socialists would be so thin that they might as well break it down and come over to the Socialist camp.
Sir Alfred Mond, speaking at Newport, Mon., said that Socialism as a political issue was as dead as mutton, and he found fault with the Government for taking no strenuous action regarding employment or anything else. Advocating co-operation between employers and employed, he told of a new experiment at his works, which was a combination of cost-sharing and profit-sharing, which was causing a remarkable improvement in output.