NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 9 July 1924

9 JULY 1924

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, was cordially greeted on his arrival in Paris. The British and French Premiers, according to an official statement, resumed the conversations from the point where they were left off at the interview at Chequers.

The Bishop of Oxford’s Liquor Control Bill was rejected in the House of Lords, after further second reading discussion, by 166 votes to 50.

The Committee stage of the Finance Bill was continued in the House of Commons, and numerous amendments disposed of.

Replying to questions in Parliament, the Secretary for Scotland said the Corpus Christi procession at Carfin, Lanarkshire, was not prohibited on the instructions of the Lord Advocate. The procession last year attained dimensions which caused serious traffic difficulties, and the police authorities this year informed the priest responsible that if the pro- cession on the public roads were repeated the matter would be reported to the Crown authorities. Mr Buchanan was refused permission to move the adjournment of the House on the matter, the Speaker stating that the question was one for the local police.

Polling takes place to-day in the Lewes by- election. David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, in a letter to Mr Howard Williams, the Liberal candidate, refers to the broken pledges of the Socialists, and says that the Liberal party preaches what it believes in, and will practice what it preaches.

David Lloyd George, speaking in London, appealed for unity between the various parts of the Empire.

Calvin Coolidge jr, the sixteen-year- old son of the American President, has died of blood poisoning. King George has sent a message of sympathy to President Coolidge.