7 OCTOBER 1923
Gustav Stresemann, the German Chancellor, said that it might be necessary to rule without Parliament as the crisis in the country’s politics continued. Stresemann has been able to form a new Cabinet, but it was unclear whether or not it would be stable.
Lord Curzon was criticised in the French press for suggestion that France’s policy in the Ruhr Valley might not be successful.
6 OCTOBER 1923
A Berlin telegram stated that Dr Stresemann, the German Chancellor, had failed to form “a Cabinet of personalities” and that he was trying to revive a Coalition Government which could include the socialists.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon Walter Edward Guinness was appointed as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in succession to Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who was appointed as the Minister of Health.
5 OCTOBER 1923
Working parties at Redding Colliery said that they have been able to successfully five men.
Herr Stresemann was making attempts in Germany to form a new Cabinet following the resignation of the previous one.
At a meeting of the National Wages Board for the coal industry, the owners refused the miners’ request for a revision of the National Agreement.
4 OCTOBER 1923
It was confirmed that the entire German cabinet had resigned.
Sir John Simon, speaking in Glasgow, said that he believed the Liberal Party were again on the eve of a great opportunity.
3 OCTOBER 1923
Speaking at the Royal Colonial Institute dinner to the overseas Prime Ministers and representatives of India, the Duke of Connaught said that the unity of the Empire was vital not only to the British Empire itself, but even more so to a distracted Europe.
Hans von Raumer, the German Minister of Economics, resigned and it was reported that the entire Cabinet might also quit.
2 OCTOBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, opened the Imperial Conference in London.
German nationalist forces attacked Government troops at Küstrin, 50 miles east of Berlin.
Seventeen people were killed during disorders at Dusseldorf with charges of brutality made against the Prussian police.
1 OCTOBER 1923
Raymond Poincaré, the Prime Minister of France, said that Germany’s latest proclamation was grudging and part of an inevitable truce. He said that execution was now key and that the France would be watching Germany’s actions.
The Secretary of State for Scotland, replying to a deputation from the Lewis District Committee, declined to sanction the appointment of official representatives to serve on the Trust to which Lord Leverhulme has offered to hand over the landward part of the Island of Lewis; and said it was impossible to entertain the proposal to give financial assistance to the Trust to meet a deficit on the working of the estate.
30 SEPTEMBER 1923
Sir Louis Newton was elected as the new Lord Mayor of London and he had served as a member of the City Corporation since 1905.
Funerals began for the 40 men who were killed at the Redding mining disaster.
29 SEPTEMBER 1923
Ronald Munro Ferguson, the Secretary of State for Scotland, spoke about the housing problem in Edinburgh and said that the best resolution was likely the block building of standardised housing.
There were indications that the boilermakers’ dispute was near resolution.
Reuter said that the situation in Germany was not regarded with undue alarm.
28 SEPTEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said in a speech in Northampton that his meeting with the French Prime Minister had helped restore the atmosphere of confidence which for some time had been lost.
Herbert Asquith said at a speech at the National Liberal Club in London that the question of reparations and inter-Allied debts should be submitted to an international tribunal.
Corfu was evacuated by the Italians.