NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 11 February 1924

11 FEBRUARY 1924

An agreement was signed between France and Britain with regards to railway traffic in the British zone of occupied Germany.

Arthur Henderson, the Home Secretary, was adopted as the Socialist candidate for the Burnley by-election.

Colonel Wedgwood, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said that the Labour Party was not in power to carry on with the old machinery. He added that they had arrived only at the entrance to the promised land.