NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 21 April 1925

21 APRIL 1925

During a disturbance in the native location at Bloemfontein the police fired a volley on a mob of 4,000. Four natives were killed. The ringleaders have been arrested, and the Citizen Force has been called up.

One Australian correspondent, in a review of Commonwealth affairs, refers to the disclosures regarding the losses of the Commonwealth shipping line, the loan requirements of the States, and the growth of the Communist agitation.

In the fighting against a hostile chief in Iraq a British aeroplane crashed, and two airmen were killed. A flying officer has also been killed in an accident near Shaibah, Iraq.

The Prince of Wales received various native chiefs at Ibadan, Nigeria, when scenes of great picturesqueness were witnessed.

A Sofia telegram announces that Minkoff, the alleged principal conspirator in the plot against the Government, has been killed while endeavouring to evade arrest.

The Soviet Government declined to take part in the International Conference on the Control of Arms and Munitions, which assembles at Geneva on May 4 next.

A revolution has broken out in Honduras.

Sir A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post and The Economist, in another article on Prohibition refers to what he describes as its serious and tragical effects, so far as the American concept of law is concerned.

When passing through Paris on Friday en route for London, King George and Queen Mary are to lunch with President Doumergue.

The Swansea No. 1 Branch of the National Union of Railwaymen have passed a resolution in favour of a strike in the Great Western Railway Company enforces its proposals for a reduction of staff.

In a shipyard accident at Clydebank three men were fatally injured.