NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 February 1925

23 FEBRUARY 1925

According to the latest bulletin regarding the King, “the slow progress continues.” In order to secure complete restoration and fitness, the King’s medical attendants advise, when the stage of convalescence has been reached, that His Majesty should proceed to the south of Europe and cruise in his yacht for a few weeks.

Austen Chamberlain, when on his way to Geneva early next month for the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, will have an interview with M. Herriot in Paris. He will discuss with the French Premier the report on German disarmament.

David Lloyd George is confined to bed in a Birmingham hotel suffering from a feverish cold. He was returning from Walsall when he developed a temperature, and the journey to London had to be postponed.

David Lloyd George, speaking in Walsall, asked representatives of the Conservative party or the Labour party to point out one plan introduced by them which had not been initiated by Dr Macnamara, Liberal candidate in the Walsall by-election.

Messages have been received from the Earl of Oxford and Asquith and other prominent members of the Liberal party by Dr Macnamara, Liberal candidate in the Walsall by-election.

Describing the visit of the Trade Union delegation to Russia, Mr John Bromley, M.P., said that there was neither free speech nor a free Press, but the working people were dictating to everyone else, as they were dictated to for so many years. There were rest houses for workers, prisoners were paid Trade Union rates for their work, while tickets for the opera were issued to the workers.

The text has been issued of Mr Macquisten’s Trade Union (Political Fund) Bill, which seeks to repeal certain sections of the Trade Union Act of 1913.