NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 22 April 1925

22 APRIL 1925

Captain Yankoff, another of the leading Communist conspirators in Bulgaria, was killed by the police after resisting capture. An attempt to blow up the International Balkan Express near the Serbo-Bulgar frontier was frustrated by soldiers, who discovered the mine laid on the railroad.

The Japanese steamer Raifuku Maru has been lost, with 38 lives, off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Colonel the Hon. F. S. Jackson, chairman of the Unionist Party Organisation, speaking at Hull, said he would be disappointed—along with the country and the government—if, before the end of the present year, they had not produced legislation of a far-reaching character. He believed it would be possible to introduce “all-in” insurance legislation, and that provision should be made for widows and orphans.

Notices were posted at the London and North-Eastern Railway locomotive shops at Gateshead announcing that from Saturday next, the shops will be closed on Saturday mornings until further notice. Two thousand men and boys are employed. An official statement has been issued regarding the company’s measures for the reduction of working costs.

Sir Alfred Mond, addressing his constituents at Llandovery, contended that his scheme to subsidise employers to take on the unemployed would end the vicious circle in which society was trapped, maintain stable social order, and deprive the Communist of his most fruitful ground for propaganda.

The latest unemployment figures show an increase of 38,417.

Lieutenant-General Sir J. A. L. Haldane has been promoted to the rank of general, succeeding the late General Lord Rawlinson.