NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 September 1923

27 SEPTEMBER 1923

Friedrich Ebert, the President of Germany, said in a proclamation to the German nation that passive resistance was being abandoned in order to preserve the life of the people and of the State.

Martial law was declared in Bavaria.

A meeting of the British Cabinet was held at which Franco-British relations and the Ruhr Valley situation were discussed.

The death of Aubrey Herbert meant that a by-election would be held in the Yeovil division of Somerset.