100 Years Ago

29 DECEMBER 1923 Mahomed Ali, the Khalifist leader, urged a congress of Indians at Coconada to unfurl the flag of

28 DECEMBER 1923 An attempt was made in Tokyo on the life of the Prince Regent, who escaped uninjured. It

27 DECEMBER 1923 It was announced that Sir Robert Kindersley would replace Montague in the British representation on the Experts’

26 DECEMBER 1923 The German Government details in a Note to the Allied Governments the subjects, exclusively concerned with the

23 DECEMBER 1923 The threat of a rail strike reduced after a split between the unions on whether or not

22 DECEMBER 1923 West Derbyshire by-election resulted in a gain for the Unionist party, Lord Hartington being returned with a

21 DECEMBER 1923 A report of the National Wages Board on the claims of the railway companies for a revision

20 DECEMBER 1923 It was officially announced that the King would open Parliament in person on Tuesday 15 January 1924.

19 DECEMBER 1923 Herbert Asquith, outlining the policy of the Liberal party at a meeting of Liberal MPs in London,

18 DECEMBER 1923 Sir John Lorne MacLeod, presiding at the Greenock Highland Society’s gatherings, referred to the distress in the