NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 March 1923

18 MARCH 1923

The French Government confirmed that around 40 soldiers were killed in a railway crash in the occupied Ruhr Valley.

Boilermakers were instructed by their union executive not to take part in a ballot of shipyard workers and the union planned to withdraw from the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Federation pending a vote of their membership.

James Donovan, a member of the Irregulars who was known as the “director of chemicals”, was arrested by Irish police.