NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 22 January 1923
22 JANUARY 1923
The six German miner directors arrested by the French were sent under military escort to a trial in Dusseldorf, as strikes in the mines amongst German miners began. The German Government also issued orders saying that no state official should offer assistance or support to the French authorities in the occupied territories.
At the Scottish Independent Labour party’s meetings in Glasgow, the French invasion of the Ruhr Valley was condemned.
The Irregulars in Ireland destroyed part of a railway viaduct at Malahide near Dublin, causing a disruption in the rail services between Belfast and Dublin.
