24 DECEMBER 1925
Some details of M. Doumer’s financial proposals to save the French franc are given. A pamphlet, voicing opinions of 2000 economic organisations, urges that the example of the “Geddes axe” should be followed.
A German Professor who took a prominent part in the war as commander of a gas battalion expresses the conviction that poison gas, despite the protests of “sentimentalists,” is destined to play an increasingly important part in future wars on the lines already defined and exploited by the German armies.
Four volunteer firemen were killed and five injured in a fire at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
In the opinion of part of the French Press, Captain Canning’s visit to Paris on behalf of Abdel Krim has been planned to prejudice the Franco-Spanish entente.
Nine lives were lost in an American coal mine fire.
At a meeting of the Chamber of Mines at Johannesburg, it was stated that owing to the prosperity of agriculture the number of natives offering themselves had substantially decreased, and that the added cost of white labour policy would be over £18,000,000 annually.
Sir James Craig, in a message to the people of Ulster, says the celebration of this Christmas festival would be incomplete if they did not feel genuinely grateful for their delivery by divine mercy from anxieties of bygone years, and for the birth of a new spirit of goodwill.