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.
2 DECEMBER 1923
Lord Kilmarnock, the British High Commissioner in the Rhineland, has received instructions from London to show a conciliatory spirit in the application of the Dusseldorf Agreement arrived at by the Franco-Belgian authorities and the Ruhr magnates regarding the resumption of work and the payment of reparations.
A fine of £5,000 and costs were imposed on Thomas James Priestman, a metal merchant, who was charged here to-day in connection with income tax frauds. The judge said that Priestman had pleaded guilty to serious frauds on the income tax authorities.
1 DECEMBER 1923
Herbert Asquith, the former Prime Minister, said that unless Britain had the folly to adopt Sir Robert Horne’s suggestion of an import duty on steel plates, the country would continue to retain by far the most profitable share of the carrying trade of the world.
The Reparation Commission decided to appoint two Committees of experts, one to consider the means of balancing Germany’s Budget and the other to investigate a method of valuing German capital in foreign countries.
29 NOVEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, addressed a large Unionist gathering at Glasgow and dealt at length with what he described as the grave position of British shipbuilding in the face of foreign competition.
Viscount Novar, the Secretary of State for Scotland, said that he was so convinced that another David Lloyd George Government would be a disaster, so he would be standing by Stanley Baldwin.
Winston Churchill, speaking in the West Leicester Division, defended his action in regards to the Dardanelles.
28 NOVEMBER 1923
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, speaking to a meeting of Liberals in Leeds expressed apprehension that the Government might secure a majority of Parliamentary seats and carry its tariff proposals, notwithstanding that Liberals and Socialists who were both hostile to tariffs might together secure a majority of votes.
It was announced that Dr Albert has failed to form a majority Cabinet in Germany.
Viscount Goschen was appointed as the Governor of Madras.
27 NOVEMBER 1923
There were 1,440 parliamentary candidates contesting the 1923 General Election.
The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, speaking in Bristol, said that until the leak in the prosperity of the country had been stopped then social reform would be more or less paralysed. He said that the Government’s main energies should be devoted to combating unemployment and that would be the paramount issue of the General Election.
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, visited Edinburgh, Newcastle and Sunderland.
26 NOVEMBER 1923
Nominations were due in for the General Election, with 53 MPs looking like they’d be elected unopposed, of whom 38 were unionists.
At the request of German President Ebert, Herr Albert, a member of the Cuno administration, has undertaken to form a Cabinet of men who were outside Parliamentary or political life.
25 NOVEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said at his formal adoption meeting for Bewdley that he was confident of victory at the General Election.
Speaking at St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow, the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George spoke to 4,000 people and said that the promised peace had not been delivered. He said that our relationship with France had worsened and that unemployment was increasing.
24 NOVEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, speaking at Tenbury in Worcestershire, appealed for a working majority to carry out his proposals for the stimulation of the home markets, relief of unemployment and aid to agriculture.
Dr Stresemann’s Government resigned after the Reichstag rejected the vote of confidence moved by the leader of the People’s party.
23 NOVEMBER 1923
Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressed female unionists in London, said that tariffs must increase employment and this would mean an increase in wages. He said that high wages would not necessarily mean higher costs and it was possible to have higher wages and lower costs at the same time.
Whilst speaking in the Reichstag, Dr. Stresemann announced that the German Government had been offered by foreign financiers a credit of at least a milliard gold marks on condition that the present Government remained in power.
Licensing Act polls took place at Crieff, Dingwall and Thurso.