NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 26 January 1924

26 JANUARY 1924

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, said that he was monitoring the situation with the railway strike closely.

Ramsay MacDonald said that he hoped for calm in India, saying that he saw no hope for India if it became an “arena of struggle between Constitutionalism and Revolution”. He added that he hoped India would “come nearer to us rather than to stand apart from us”.

The death was announced of Dan Irving, the Labour MP for Burnley.