NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 20 April 1923

20 APRIL 1923

A provision settlement was reached in the dispute of agricultural workers in Norfolk.

The Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill was read a Second Time in the House of Lords.

Sugar prices continued to rise with injunction proceedings undertaken by the US Government with regards to trading in futures.

The value of the German mark collapsed with the cost of living increasing and the number of exports falling. The German Government had ordered the printing of notes to fund the wages of those living in the French occupied Ruhr Valley, a project which the media reported to be unsustainable.