NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 11 May 1923

11 MAY 1923

Three Bolshevik envoys were shot at the Lausanne conference, with Vatslav Vorovsky being killed.

Eric Geddes, the former First Lord of the Admiralty, criticised the British policy on German war reparations, saying that the French action had damaged trade and the Government should take more courageous action.

The ballot of the Boilermakers’ Society showed a large majority against acceptance of the overtime and nightshift agreement.