25 MAY 1925
The King laid the foundation stone of the new building which is being erected in London for Lloyd’s.
Japan has been revisited by an earthquake disaster, this time of a more localised nature but of great severity. Several townships are reported to have been destroyed by the shock and by the fires which followed, and hundreds of souls perished.
Forty-four persons were drowned when the Turkish steamer Keriman foundered in the Black Sea.
In a lifeboat disaster on the Breton coast twenty-seven men perished.
The Prince of Wales crossed the Orange Free State border for the second stage of his South African tour.
A verdict in the Malabar murder trial, in which nine persons were charged in connection with the death of Mr Bawla and the wounding of an Indian singing-girl, Mumtaz Begum, has been reached. Three of the accused were sentenced to death, four transported for life, while the remaining two were acquitted.
The conversion of the Jews was the principal subject discussed by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.