NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 5 May 1924

5 MAY 1924

Stanley Baldwin, the former Prime Minister, speaking at the annual dinner of the Junior Imperial League in London, indicated the main lines of Unionist policy, and said that if returned to power again he was going to have a thorough investigation to the question of retail profiteering.

There was a strong turnout in the German elections with the counting starting immediately and the results expected imminently.

The Belgian Premier and Foreign Minister returned to Belgium after their conversations with Ramsay MacDonald.

President Coolidge’s intimation that he favoured a policy of exclusion on the question of immigration caused dismay in Japanese circles.