NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 February 1923

27 FEBRUARY 1923

The House of Commons voted a sum of £45,000 to defray the cost of evacuating refugees from Smyrna after the Greek reverse in Asia Minor.

An Irish Free State soldier was executed at Maryborough for treason.

It was announced that the King and Queen would visit Italy for one week in May 1923.

Hostilities continued between Poland and Lithuania, with both sides appealing to the League of Nations to help to resolve the matter.