NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 2 December 1923

2 DECEMBER 1923

Lord Kilmarnock, the British High Commissioner in the Rhineland, has received instructions from London to show a conciliatory spirit in the application of the Dusseldorf Agreement arrived at by the Franco-Belgian authorities and the Ruhr magnates regarding the resumption of work and the payment of reparations.

A fine of £5,000 and costs were imposed on Thomas James Priestman, a metal merchant, who was charged here to-day in connection with income tax frauds. The judge said that Priestman had pleaded guilty  to serious frauds on the income tax authorities.