NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 2 March 1923

2 MARCH 1923

In a speech at Edinburgh University, the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George said that universities had played an essential part in the war and were the fourth arm of defence in a time of crisis.

15,000 building trade operatives went on strike in the Eastern Counties over the subject of wages for painters.

The French authorities in the occupied territories of the Ruhr Valley said that the proceeds of all consumption taxes on wines, cigars, cigarettes and manufactured tobacco would now go to them.

Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the future German President, said in a speech in Hanover that “we will never forget that we are all Germans and must do our duty, and if necessary fight even until the last flag is torn in pieces and the last sword blade shattered. Better to perish in honour than live in disgrace”,