NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 1 April 1923

1 APRIL 1923

The French occupying forces sought to take items from a Krupps works and a gunfight ensued with six Germans shot dead and thirty wounded.

Herbert Asquith refused to attend a luncheon with David Lloyd George stating that it wasn’t the appropriate time to discuss in public any potential Liberal co-operation. There was debate about whether the National Liberals and the Liberal Party could merge.