NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 19 January 1924

19 JANUARY 1924

James Henry Thomas continued the debate on the Socialist amendment to the Address in the House of Commons. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, alluding to the announcement of Liberal support for the amendment, said that the more Liberal members explained themselves the more difficulty would they have in convincing the plain elector that their votes were not contradictory to their election professions.

The General Council of the Trades Union Congress intervened in the hope of preventing a general strike on the railways.

France ‘declared war’ on the British zone in occupied Germany by announcing a blockade of everything except foodstuffs and military transport.

The Egyptian Cabinet resigned.