19 JUNE 1923
A number of concessions in the matter of the reassessment of house property for taxation were announced in the House of Commons by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
A Turkish transport carrying a cargo of guns from Thrace was seized by the British destroyer Splendid in the Sea of Marmora.
A demonstration of the working of the totalisator machine in betting transactions was given before members of the Committee on the Taxation of Betting.
18 JUNE 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said in a speech made in Oxford that civilisation was cracking and the whole world was looking at the British Empire and the United States for salvation.
The situation in Bulgaria looked unstable following a coup which had led to the execution of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, the country’s President. The country of Serbia also looked unstable and there was concern in Romania about the political situation.
16 JUNE 1923
A special committee of the Labour Party which was looking into prohibition said that there was no evidence that the British people would accept such a move.
The funeral of Princess Christian took place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the presence of the Royal Family.
The death of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, the President of Bulgaria forced out in a coup, was announced.
15 JUNE 1923
The Government defended in the House of Commons the decision of the Viceroy to India who had overriden the Indian Legislative Council on the question of the salt tax increase.
The Belgian Government tendered their resignation to King Albert following a dispute raised in Parliament on the ‘Flamandisation’ of Ghent University. The King accepted their resignation.
The Caledonian Railway Bill was read for a second time in the House of Lords.
14 JUNE 1923
Earl Birkenhead said in the House of Lords that socialism was growing in strength and raised the matter of Trade Union levies for political purposes.
Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, wrote in response to the Soviet Note that the Soviet Government has complied with the essential conditions of the British demands.
A wooden open-air ward at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Highbury, Birmingham, was destroyed by fire with two patients losing their lives.
13 JUNE 1923
Henri Jaspar, the Belgian Foreign Minister, said that his Government were in solidarity with France on the subjects of war reparations and the occupation of the Ruhr Valley.
A party of the British section of the Palestine Gendarmerie was ambushed by brigands. Two men were killed immediately, with another dying later of their wounds.
The Finance Bill was discussed in Committee of the House of Commons, with an amendment for the repeal of the McKenna duties being rejected by 238 votes to 164 votes.
12 JUNE 1923
The Government said that the German note on reparations payments would be discussed within Cabinet, although it would take several days until an announcement was made in Parliament.
There was disorder in Dortmund following the shooting of two non-commissioned French officers.
No agreement was reached at the Lausanne Conference on the Turkish debt conference.
The Government’s debt reduction policy and tea/beer duties were discussed in the House of Commons.
11 JUNE 1923
The death of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was confirmed. She was the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and had been born in May 1846.
A coup d’etat took place in Bulgaria with the armed forces overthrowing the democratically elected Government.
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, said that the real trouble of the world was the enthroning of force above right. He said that until there was a new temper in the world, he despaired at civilisation.
9 JUNE 1923
Speaking to the Chatham and Canning clubs in London, the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke of the need of developing the Dominions and more evenly spreading the population of the whole Empire in the interests of the denser population in the UK who must have trade or starve.
The Matrimonial Causes Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons by 257 votes to 26 votes.
It was reported that Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, the fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was unconscious and in a serious state of health.
8 JUNE 1923
Germany confirmed to the Allies that the country accepted the need to pay war reparations and said that they would accept the report of an impartial international body as to the amount and method of payments.
The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Bill passed the report stage in the House of Lords.
The Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Bill passed the second reading in the House of Commons with a majority of 164.