25 APRIL 1925
On their return from the Mediterranean the King and Queen visited Paris incognito, and were entertained at luncheon by President Doumergue. His Majesty subsequently decorated M. Painlevé, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the Arc de Triomphe. The Queen paid a private visit to the Musée Carnavalet.
A resolution approving of the Liberal Million Fighting Fund, and a statement of Liberal principles and aims relating to Scottish problems were discussed at a Scottish Convention of Liberals held in Edinburgh.
Speaking at a Liberal demonstration in Edinburgh, Sir John Simon characterised the policy of the Labour party in regard to temperance, armaments, and fiscal policy as mistaken, and in referring to the land problem said he was unable to see how, on the principles of the Conservative party or of Socialists, a practical policy of land reform could be framed.
In endorsing the Weir scheme of steel houses to help to meet the housing shortage, the Court of Inquiry, which was appointed to inquire into the threatened disputes in connection with the erection of steel houses, states that Messrs Weir have devised a way of supplementing the supply of houses by utilising the methods of the engineering trade just as that trade in the production of motor vehicles or of steel bridges supplemented the supply of vehicles and bridges formerly produced by skilled wheelwrights and masons respectively.
The Earl of Balfour arrived in London from Palestine, and was greeted at the Victoria Station with the cheers of about 1000 Zionists.
The German Presidential election takes place to-morrow. A Berlin telegram predicts that the fight between Marx and Hindenburg will be close and thrilling.