100 Years Ago

16 OCTOBER 1923 Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Minister of Health, spoke in Hounslow stating that unemployment relief schemes were menaced

15 OCTOBER 1923 The Reichstag passed the ‘Emergency Law’ by 316 votes to 24, with 7 abstentions. 200 people were

14 OCTOBER 1923 Sir Edward Hulton disposed of his newspaper interests for £6 million to the Daily Mail Trust which

13 OCTOBER 1923 Lord Robert Cecil gave the Imperial Conference an account of the activities of the League of Nations,

12 OCTOBER 1923 Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor of Germany, was authorised by President Friedrich Ebert to dissolve the Reichstag if

11 OCTOBER 1923 At the Imperial Economic Conference, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame revealed the British Government’s proposal to assist in the

10 OCTOBER 1923 The British Government offered to the Dominions at the Imperial Economic Conference a number of important concessions

9 OCTOBER 1923 It was reported that Franco-Belgian authorities in the Ruhr have presented the railwaymen with an ultimatum, which

8 OCTOBER 1923 Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor of Germany, made a statement in the Reichstag stating that he had been

7 OCTOBER 1923 Gustav Stresemann, the German Chancellor, said that it might be necessary to rule without Parliament as the