NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 19 April 1924
19 APRIL 1924
France stated that they had no intention of ending their military occupation of the Ruhr and Rhineland.
Opening the election campaign of the South African party in Johannesburg, General Smuts, the Prime Minister, denounced the Nationalist-Labour pact as a ‘miserable subterfuge’ and ‘the most immoral things that has happened in South African politics’.