NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 10 July 1924

10 JULY 1924

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, has returned to London after his conversations in Paris with Édouard Herriot, the French Premier, regarding the Allied Conference on the 16th inst. An agreement has been reached in regard to the joint Franco-British proposals to be submitted to the Conference. The proposals will take the form of a Franco-British Note, which is being forwarded to the other Allies.

A Paris telegram gives the terms of the Joint Note decided upon by the British and French Premiers.

In the House of Commons, the Lord Privy Seal, indicating the desire of the Government to save as much as possible of the Prevention of Eviction Bill, said that the Lords’ amendments would probably be accepted.

By 221 votes to 112, the House of Commons gave a second reading to the Lanarkshire Hydro-Electric Bill. Discussion also took place on report stage amendments to the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Bill.

During Tuesday’s all-night sitting of the Commons, one of the Government Whips, Mr. T. Kennedy, the member for Kirkcaldy, fainted in the lobby, and received medical treatment in the House, and afterwards at St. Thomas’s Hospital. Mr Kennedy’s indisposition occurred during a division on the Finance Bill, the Committee stage of which was completed by a tired House about six o’clock in the morning.

At the annual Conference of the National Union of Railwaymen at York, a resolution endorsing the action of the Executive Committee in placing upon the agenda of the forthcoming International Transport Workers’ Conference a resolution of protest against the general application of the terms of the Washington Hours Convention was unanimously adopted.