NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 4 March 1923
4 MARCH 1923
The Liberal candidate Harcourt Johnstone won the by-election in Willesden East, beating the Unionist candidate George Frederick Stanley with a majority of 5,176. The sitting MP Harry Mallaby-Deeley stood down claiming health reasons, although it was thought that it was to enable Stanley to re-enter Parliament.
The death of Baron Seaforth was announced.
French troops occupied the German cities of Mannheim and Darmstadt as part of their seizure of German lands in the Ruhr Valley.
