NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 5 March 1923

5 MARCH 1923

The death was announced of James Stewart-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth.

Sir Charles Monro was announced as the new Governor of Gibraltar, succeeding Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien.

A bomb was thrown into the Cairo headquarters of the British military forces, injuring several soldiers.

Willie Hodgson, the former Lord Mayor of Leeds, was killed in a road traffic accident.