NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 6 March 1923

6 MARCH 1923

The result of the Mitcham parliamentary by-election was announced, with Labour’s James Chuter Ede gaining the seat from the Unionists. Ede secured 8,029 votes with the Unionist candidate Arthur Griffith-Boscawen securing 7,196 votes, the defeat meaning that he resigned as the Minister for Health.

The House of Commons gave a second reading to the Government’s Unemployment Insurance Bill.

The German Government condemned the burglaries that had taken place in their embassy in Rome.

Andrew Bonar Law, the Prime Minister, said in the House of Commons that there was no rupture with the French Government on the matter of their occupation of the Ruhr Valley.