28 JANUARY 1925
The German reply to the last Allied Note concerning disarmament has been presented to the Allied representatives in Berlin. It states that the German Government cannot conceive how it can be accused of disregard of Articles 428 and 429 of the Versailles Treaty, and it maintains that the conditions under which evacuation of the Northern Rhine zone should have taken place on January 10 have, in fact, been carried out. “The fact of the disarmament of Germany is too evident,” the Note adds.
A note to the Chinese Foreign Office from the representatives of the Powers dwells on the Government’s responsibility for the protection of foreign lives and property during the renewed conflict around Shanghai.
An appeal for aid in a campaign against leprosy in India was launched by Lord Reading, the Viceroy, at a meeting at Delhi.
Romania’s economic and financial position in the light of the recent Paris Conference was discussed at an interview between M. Bratiano, the Romanian Foreign Minister, and Mr Churchill.
Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, a former Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, is dead.
The death is announced of Baron Friedrich von Hügel, the distinguished philosopher and theologian.
The project of establishing in Scotland an industrial colony for the permanent care of the ‘feeble-minded’, where they could be segregated and taught useful employment, was presented at a largely attended meeting in The City Chambers, Edinburgh, presided over by the Lord Provost. Lady Leslie Mackenzie gave an outline of the proposal, which was supported in a communication from Professor Robertson and by Lord Sands and others.