NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 1 January 1924

1 JANUARY 1924

The New Years honours list was announced. Lord Inchcape was created a Viscount and Sir Frederick Banbury MP, Sir Charles Darling and Colonel Sir Herbert Jessel were raised to the Peerage as Barons.

According to the Treasury returns for the past nine months, there was a decrease in the revenue of the United Kingdom of £52,277,668 compared with the corresponding period last year.