NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 12 December 1923

12 DECEMBER 1923

The Cabinet agreed that it was their constitutional duty to meet Parliament at the earliest available opportunity. Parliament, therefore, was recalled for 8 January 1924.

The Portuguese Government said that they had repelled a revolutionary movement of radicals and extremists in Lisbon.

Winston Churchill was cross-examined at the resumed trial at the Old Bailey of Lord Alfred Douglas on a charge of criminally libelling him. Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Francis Oliver said that Lord Balfour drew up the Jutland bulletin at the Admiralty in his own handwriting and Mr Churchill had no part in its preparation.