NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 March 1923
18 MARCH 1923
The French Government confirmed that around 40 soldiers were killed in a railway crash in the occupied Ruhr Valley.
Boilermakers were instructed by their union executive not to take part in a ballot of shipyard workers and the union planned to withdraw from the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Federation pending a vote of their membership.
James Donovan, a member of the Irregulars who was known as the “director of chemicals”, was arrested by Irish police.