1 MARCH 1923
William Edwin Pease won the Darlington by-election for the Conservative Party, securing 14,684 votes, with the Labour candidate Will Sherwood securing 11,271 votes. The previous MP, Herbert Pease, was the cousin of William and the by-election had been caused as he had been elevated to the Peerage.
The Criminal Justice Bill was read for a second time in the House of Lords.
The Dangerous Drugs and Poisons Amendment Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons.
28 FEBRUARY 1923
The Duke of Abercorn opened the third session of the Parliament of Northern Ireland stating that the border line was now absolutely safe and secure. He added that the Parliament would be focusing on education and temperance reform.
The Industrial Assurance Bill passed through Committee in the House of Lords.
A motion by Colonel Wedgwood in the House of Commons praying for the withholding of the Royal Assent from the Indian States was rejected by 279 votes to 120 votes.
27 FEBRUARY 1923
The House of Commons voted a sum of £45,000 to defray the cost of evacuating refugees from Smyrna after the Greek reverse in Asia Minor.
An Irish Free State soldier was executed at Maryborough for treason.
It was announced that the King and Queen would visit Italy for one week in May 1923.
Hostilities continued between Poland and Lithuania, with both sides appealing to the League of Nations to help to resolve the matter.
26 FEBRUARY 1923
Speaking at a Liberal party meeting in Trowbridge, the former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith said that Europe was in a dangerous position and that discussions involving European countries and the United States needed to take place. He said “is all this going to be thrown away?” referring to the years of relative peace since the end of the First World War.
The French authorities at Dusseldorf said that they had effected a new occupation in order to secure possession of the right bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Mayence.
Representations of the Polish administration met with three Lithuanian officers as the start of talks to open discussions on the application of the demarcation line in the neutral zone as discussed by the League of Nations.
The French authorities confirmed that they had seized 12,000,000,000 paper marks from a train travelling from Berlin to Cologne.
25 FEBRUARY 2023
The Irish Free State announced that they would be creating a customs barrier along their border with Ulster.
The Army Estimates suggested that there would be a reduction in military spending, but the number of men in the army would be increased.
Eight miners were killed in a coal mine accident in Medomsley, with six of the dead aged between 16 and 18.
24 FEBRUARY 1923
The Irish Free State said that they had made a number of key arrests of Irregulars members in Dublin, including Sean Fitzpatrick.
The Local Elections bill to introduce proportional representation was defeated by 169 votes to 157 votes on its Second Reading in the House of Commons.
23 FEBRUARY 1923
The Government stated that it did not intend to remove the statutory restriction on the importation of Irish cattle.
The death was announced of Théophile Delcassé, the former French Foreign Minister.
The Prime Minister stated that he was not currently in a position to issue an update on reform of the House of Lords.
22 FEBRUARY 1923
Government offices were attacked in Dublin by the Irregulars, but attempts to destroy the buildings were prevented by the national troops.
Andrew Bonar Law, the Prime Minister, confirmed that the British Government had allowed the French military to travel over British occupied territory to occupy the Ruhr Valley.
21 FEBRUARY 1923
In the House of Commons, a Liberal party amendment to the Loyal Address suggesting an immediate and drastic curtailment of British responsibilities in Mesopotamia was defeated.
The Second Reading of the Industrial Assurance Bill was agreed to in the House of Lords.
It was reported that Colonel Svejevski was sentenced to death for a plot to kill Vladimir Lenin.
Army headquarters in Dublin announced that the national troops had captured more groups of Irregulars, including some who were attempting to loot the Post Office at Knockmore in Fermoy, County Cork.
The Dean of Durham condemned plans to allow vicars to become Members of Parliament, stating that “they could not possibly do their duty in the House of Commons”.
20 FEBRUARY 1923
The joint motion from the Independent and the National Liberals in the House of Commons on the intervention of the League of Nations on the question of the Ruhr and the payment of reparations was defeated by 305 votes to 196.
Fighting between Poles and Lithuanians was reported following the announcement made by the League of Nations that Poland should occupy the neutral zone up to the demarcation line.