NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 June 1924

23 JUNE 1924

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, and Édouard Herriot, the French Prime Minister, conferred at Chequers on the questions arising out of the Experts’ Report on Reparations.

Raymond Poincaré, the former Prime Minister of France, spoke at Verdun in justification of his Ruhr policy.

The French authorities made a number of arrests of Nationalists in the Ruhr.

The King and Queen welcomed the King and Queen of Denmark at Liverpool Street in London on their arrival in Britain on a short visit.

The Speaker of the House of Commons, speaking at the commemoration of the Signing of Magna Carta at Runnymede, said that it was not from monarchy that the challenge to liberty came nowadays from dictatorships.