16 MARCH 1923
Rupert Sackville Gwynne was appointed as the new Financial Secretary to the War Office.
The Criminal Justice Bill passed the report stage in the House of Lords.
At a conference in London, local authorities accepted a Government offer of £6 per house to assist them in building homes for “the working class”.
A new Cabinet was formed in Egypt.
15 MARCH 1923
Irish Republicans have issued a proclamation stating an indefinite period of national mourning during which all sports and amusements are to be suspended.
The Irregulars issued a statement saying that any MP in the Provisional Government that signed the Murder Bill would be shot on sight.
14 MARCH 1923
It was reported that British traders were struggling in the Rhineland due to the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley.
Seven members of the Irregulars were executed by shooting in the Irish Free State, one in Dublin, two in Cork, two in Mullingar and three in Wexford.
A group of armed Irregulars looted the village of Knocknagree in County Cork.
13 MARCH 1923
The Home Secretary was asked in the House of Commons why the Government had assisted the Irish Free State with arresting so many Irish rebels. He replied that evidence was provided to the Home Office that there was a quasi-military organisation with revolutionary aims which the Government felt was a threat to national security.
Tensions rose in the occupied Ruhr Valley following the shooting by French military of two men who had been alleged to have killed two French officers. In the confusion following the shootings the French military shot five more German civilians.
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was confirmed as the new Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
12 MARCH 1923
Police in Scotland and England, working with the Irish Free State, were instructed by the Home Office to arrest a large number of Irish rebels that were in the country.
Two French soldiers were murdered in Recklinghausen in the Ruhr Valley.
It was reported that Lord Crewe, the British ambassador in Paris, was seriously ill.
The Irregulars announced that they intended to murder Mrs Powell, the widowed sister of the late General Michael Collins.
11 MARCH 1923
A large collection of weaponry was found by the national troops in a property near the Corporation Markets in Halston Street in Dublin.
It was reported that negotiations were progressing between the German and French Governments regarding the future of the Ruhr Valley which the French had occupied due to failure of the Germans to pay war reparations.
Ballynastragh House, the property of Irish Senator Sir Thomas Esmonde, was destroyed by members of the Irregulars. Servants were ordered out of the property and nothing was saved, with the property never being fully rebuilt.
Hundreds of football fans were assisted at Charlton Athletic’s ground following the collapse of a safety barrier with many injured during the incident.
10 MARCH 1923
It was announced that the King and Queen would visit the Pope during their visit to Italy.
Lady Astor proposed a Bill to the House of Commons which aimed to amend the licensing laws to prevent boys and girls from the environment of the public house. She stated that at the moment pubs could sell alcohol to those aged 14 and over and spirits to those 16 and over, with Astor wanting to increase the age to 18.
A group of Labour MPs introduced a Bill into the House of Commons to nationalise the mines and minerals of the country.
9 MARCH 1923
Con Moloney, the Deputy Chief of the Republican Army Staff, was captured by Government forces during an attack in the Glen of Aherlow.
The Schutzpolizei in Dortmund were disarmed by the occupying French authorities and then expelled from the area. The French military authorities said that they would investigate a series of allegations made by local Germans of robberies being conducted by French troops.
The Belgian Government confirmed that there had been a series of arrests of communist leaders in the country.
The Chinese Cabinet resigned.
8 MARCH 1923
Marquis Curzon said in the House of Lords that the Government fully intended to introduce the legislation suggested by the Royal Commission on Honours.
Neville Chamberlain was appointed as the Minister of Health.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks was appointed as the Postmaster General.
The death of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth was announced.
7 MARCH 1923
The Labour Party gained another Parliamentary seat, winning the by-election in Liverpool Edge Hill from the Unionist Party. The seat had been won by William Rutherford for the Unionists in 1922, with a majority of 4,666 over Labour’s Jack Hayes. In the by-election, Jack Hayes secured a majority of 1,050 over the Unionist candidate John Waller Hills. Following his defeat, Hills resigned from his role as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury which he had held since November 1922.
Wilhelm Cuno, the Chancellor of Germany, spoke in the Reichstag condemning the treatment of German officials in the Ruhr Valley by the French occupiers. He warned that the population of the Rhine and the Ruhr were now more determined than ever on resistance.
The death was announced of Sir Owen Thomas who had been the MP for Anglesey since 1918.