NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 14 June 1923

14 JUNE 1923

Earl Birkenhead said in the House of Lords that socialism was growing in strength and raised the matter of Trade Union levies for political purposes.

Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, wrote in response to the Soviet Note that the Soviet Government has complied with the essential conditions of the British demands.

A wooden open-air ward at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Highbury, Birmingham, was destroyed by fire with two patients losing their lives.