4 JUNE 1925
The Prince of Wales’s visit to Durban was marked by scenes of great enthusiasm. The town was en fête, and there were several functions in the Prince’s honour in the course of the day.
The Prime Minister, receiving the freedom of Dundee, made an appeal to the citizens to work for a fairer city in the years to come, which would be an example to the world and a happy home and heritage for her children and children’s children. The splendid site on which Dundee stood, said Mr Baldwin, should stimulate them to see that the newer city was worthy of that site for all the people.
Contracts amounting to nearly £3,500,000 have been placed in Great Britain for the new cruisers and submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.
A spread of the anti-foreign riots at Shanghai is reported, and further encounters between patrols and rioters have resulted in a number of deaths. British sailors have been landed, and a number of foreign residents rescued from positions of danger.
Inquiries regarding the new Industrial Alliance proposed by the Miners’ Federation show that none of the Unions is prepared to bind itself to an alliance without further consultation and consideration.
By 147 to 37, the Canadian House of Commons rejected a Protectionist motion by Mr Meighen designed to define the tariff issue on which the Conservatives of the Dominion will base their main appeal at the next General Election.