NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 30 January 1923

30 JANUARY 1923

The French widened their policy of arresting all German officials in the Ruhr Valley who failed to help them in their occupation of the area. All officials who refused to help were not just subject to arrest, but also expulsion from the region.

Numerous bombs went off in Dublin along with a number of residential properties which were firebombed. There were also attacks on the National Guards at City Hall and at the Central Telephone Exchange.

Ramsay MacDonald, the Leader of the Labour Party, demanded that Parliament be recalled so that the crisis in the Ruhr Valley could be discussed and debated by Parliamentarians.

A number of hunger marchers from Scotland raided hotels and restaurants in Brighton demanding food for which they said they wouldn’t be paying for. The authorities said that 11 people were arrested for the crimes.

British authorities confirmed that Germany had ordered 300,000 tons of coal and that the orders would be fulfilled.