Tag: 100 Years Ago

2 JANUARY 1924

The King, replying to a New Year’s message from the Lord Mayor of London, expressed his confidence in the future of the country.

The City of London Conservative and Unionist Association have, it is reported, written to the Prime Minister expressing the view that they consider it is vitally necessary he should endeavour to come to some understanding with Herbert Asquith  before Parliament meets.

JH Thomas MP, speaking in Derby, said that if the Labour Party were called to form a Government they would be free and unfettered by any alliances or agreements with any other party.

1 JANUARY 1924

The New Years honours list was announced. Lord Inchcape was created a Viscount and Sir Frederick Banbury MP, Sir Charles Darling and Colonel Sir Herbert Jessel were raised to the Peerage as Barons.

According to the Treasury returns for the past nine months, there was a decrease in the revenue of the United Kingdom of £52,277,668 compared with the corresponding period last year.

31 DECEMBER 1923

Advices from Calcutta indicate the anxieties of the Viceroy. No official explanation was given as to the abbreviation of his Burma tour.

Sir Auckland Geddes has resigned his post as British Ambassador to the United States and will be succeeded by Sir Esme Howard. Sir Horace Rumbold has been appointed as the British Ambassador to Spain.

FB Kellog, the new American Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London.

The death was announced of General Buat, the Chief of General Staff of the French Army.

Relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were reported to be strained owing to a speech by the Bulgarian Premier, which was regarded in Belgrade as a challenge to the Yugoslavs.

A number of Bulgarian communists were expelled from Austria.

30 DECEMBER 1923

There were renewed rumours at Westminster that Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, would resign as leader of the Conservative Party.

It was reported that the New Years Honours List would be short as it was expected that there might be a second honours list, traditionally given on the change of Government.

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.

28 DECEMBER 1923

An attempt was made in Tokyo on the life of the Prince Regent, who escaped uninjured.

It was reported that the Japanese Government had resigned.

The situation in Greece remained calm after the peaceful overthrow of the Monarchy.

27 DECEMBER 1923

It was announced that Sir Robert Kindersley would replace Montague in the British representation on the Experts’ Committees on German reparation.

Dixmude, a Zeppelin airship built by the Germans and which was given to the French as part of war reparations, crashed in Sicily killing all 52 people on board.

PJ Ford, who was defeated in North Edinburgh at the recent General Election, has addressed a communication to his former constituents complaining of deliberate misstatements on the part of those who opposed him.

26 DECEMBER 1923

The German Government details in a Note to the Allied Governments the subjects, exclusively concerned with the Occupied Areas, upon which it wishes to enter into discussions.

Eleftherios Venizelos, the country’s former Prime Minister, was reportedly returning to Greece on 2 January 1924.

Clyde shipbuilding returns are the lowest for nearly forty years, partly as a result of the lock-out of the boilermakers.

23 DECEMBER 1923

The threat of a rail strike reduced after a split between the unions on whether or not to accept the proposed offer from the train operators.

Figures released by the Government showed a fall in unemployment of 43,195 over the previous week.

The US State Department said that a complete agreement on the Anglo-American Liquor Treaty would soon be announced.

22 DECEMBER 1923

West Derbyshire by-election resulted in a gain for the Unionist party, Lord Hartington being returned with a majority of 453 over his Liberal opponent.

A summary of the Temperance (Scotland) Act polls shows a large majority for ‘no change’.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, in an article on his recent tour in Canada, says the ordinary methods of attracting emigrants are worthless, and suggests that a bolder and more enterprising scheme is needed on both sides of the Atlantic.