NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 January 1924

18 JANUARY 1924

The debate on the Address in the House of Commons was resumed by John Robert Clynes, who moved the official Socialist amendment of ‘no confidence’ in the Government. Herbert Asquith indicated that the Liberals would support the amendment.

Winston Churchill declared that “strife and tumult, deepening and darkening, can be the only consequence of minority Socialist rule”.

It was confirmed that a railway strike would begin on Sunday.