NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 12 March 1923
12 MARCH 1923
Police in Scotland and England, working with the Irish Free State, were instructed by the Home Office to arrest a large number of Irish rebels that were in the country.
Two French soldiers were murdered in Recklinghausen in the Ruhr Valley.
It was reported that Lord Crewe, the British ambassador in Paris, was seriously ill.
The Irregulars announced that they intended to murder Mrs Powell, the widowed sister of the late General Michael Collins.
