NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 19 September 1923

19 SEPTEMBER 1923

Raymond Poincaré, the French Prime Minister, and Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, met in Paris.

At a meeting of the League of Nations Council, Signor Salandra, the Italian delegate, defended the policy of Italy in denying the League’s competence to intervene in the Italo-Greek dispute.

An earthquake hit Malta and Sicily.

Speaking to the British Association in Liverpool, Bishop Welldon criticised the attitude of the National Union of Teachers towards the possible reduction in their salaries.