NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 29 December 1923
29 DECEMBER 1923
Mahomed Ali, the Khalifist leader, urged a congress of Indians at Coconada to unfurl the flag of a republic in the event of the Government’s failure to grant Swaraj (self-rule).
King Hussein has addressed an appeal to the people of Britain for sympathetic consideration of Arab claims and grievances.
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, in an article on his recent tour in America, says he has returned more convinced than ever that the hope of mankind in the immediate future depends on the extent to which the two greatest Commonwealths on earth can be persuaded to work together in world affairs.
