NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 10 August 1923

10 AUGUST 1923

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, in a message to the Unionist candidate at South Portsmouth, said that it was the intention of the Government to persist steadily in their plan to find a satisfactory solution to the grave problems facing the nation.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, said at a meeting in Mold that the danger in Europe was a nationalism that had gone wrong. He said that the continent was suffering from menancing and ravaging patriotisms that had burst their banks.

The body of President Warren Harding arrived at Marion for burial. Over 100,000 people visited the town, where the President had been brought up, to witness the funeral.

The National Gallery at Millbank accepted the offer from Samuel Courtauld of £50,000 to purchase modern foreign pictures for the gallery.