23 OCTOBER 1923
Ronald McNeill, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Tiverton said that “there is one debt we are not going to write off – the debt owed to us by Germany. We are not going to let Germany off. Sooner or later she will have to pay up”.
A military revolt broke out in Greece, under the leadership of the Royalist General Ioannis Metaxas.
The media reported that telegrams from the Rhineland reported an extension of the Republican movement.
22 OCTOBER 1923
Bavaria’s defiance of the Berlin Government in regard to the dismissal of General von Lossow led to a critical situation in the region.
Tomáš Masaryk, the President of Czechoslovakia, arrived in London for discussions with Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister.
21 OCTOBER 1923
A Rhineland Republic was proclaimed at Aix-le-Chapelle.
It was announced that Stanley Baldwin, would be making an important speech to the nation later on in the week which would be broadcast by the BBC.
20 OCTOBER 1923
Questions of military and naval defence were discussed in private by the Imperial Conference. The Economic Conference was presented with an outline of the Burney Airship scheme, which, if successful, will bring London within 100 flying hours of London. The Conference decided to appoint a committee to go into the whole question with the Air Ministry.
Sir Robert Horne, speaking in Glasgow, spoke of the dangers of inflation of currency, and urged a bold scheme of Empire settlement, suggesting that the money for such a policy might be found in the £40,000,000 applied under the Budget towards the redemption of debt.
Lord Gladstone, addressing a Liberal demonstration in Edinburgh, made an appeal for the renewal of the Liberal Party in its old force, and said that there was no obstacle to reunion.
19 OCTOBER 1923
The Ruhr policy of Raymond Poincaré, the President of France, was disclosed in an interview with the German Charge D’Affaires, noting that it was thought to be unbearable and impossible.
Speaking at the Colchester Oyster Feast, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans said that there were no grounds to the rumours that the Government was considering debasing the currency.
The situation in Saxony became critical. The Bavarian Government recalled its Minister in Dresden owing to the Communist representation in the Saxon Government.
18 OCTOBER 1923
In a speech delivered in Simla, Lord Reading issued a solemn warning to any who might enter the Legislative Assembly for the purpose of wrecking the constitution. As to withdrawal from the Empire Exhibition, India only, he said, would be the sufferer. The boycott of British goods, moreover, would absolutely fail in its intended effect and not advance India’s cause.
Sir Halford Mackinder addressed the Imperial Economic Conference with regard to the work of the Imperial Shipping Committee. He referred to the air, sea and land project for shortening the Australian passage by about one week.
Speaking in Colchester, the Secretary of State for Air gave a speech regarding the proposed expansion of the Air Force.
Howard Carter and his assistants arrived at Luxor in order to begin preparations for the resumption of work on Tutankhamen’s tomb.
17 OCTOBER 1923
Anderson Montague-Barlow, the Minister of Labour, gave detail in a speech in London of the Government’s proposals for the relief of unemployment. He said that schemes costing not less than £50,000,000 would be delivered.
The Northern Ireland House of Commons reassembled for the autumn session. Sir James Craig, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced improved conditions in Ulster and a grant of an additional £1,000,000 to the Special Constabulary.
There was rioting in Berlin involving a large number of unemployed men.
16 OCTOBER 1923
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Minister of Health, spoke in Hounslow stating that unemployment relief schemes were menaced by the large stocks of iron and steel in the Ruhr waiting to be dumped at a price match much below that at which they could be manufactured in the UK.
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, arrived in Minnesota having travelled from Winnipeg.
Over 2,000 joiners stopped worked in Glasgow owing to a trade dispute.
15 OCTOBER 1923
The Reichstag passed the ‘Emergency Law’ by 316 votes to 24, with 7 abstentions.
200 people were killed and 500 people were seriously wounded in an explosion at the fourth fort of Warsaw Citadel, with the press reporting foul play.
Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking in Birmingham, said that given the national finances it would be foolish to count upon further remissions of taxation.
A further five bodies were recovered from the flooded pit at Redding.
14 OCTOBER 1923
Sir Edward Hulton disposed of his newspaper interests for £6 million to the Daily Mail Trust which now managed them, with the exception of the Evening Standard.
The Stamford District by-election was announced as being on Tuesday 30 October.
Elspeth Dinsdale was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate by Cambridgeshire Liberals.