NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 3 December 1923

3 DECEMBER 1923

Over 700 lives were reported to have been lost in the Val Camonica as a result of the bursting of a dam on Lake Gleno, an artificial lake in the province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy.

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, made a special appeal to female voters for support of the Government’s fiscal policy in a letter which he sent to Mrs Bridgeman, the chairman of the Women’s Unionist Organisation.