NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 October 1924

27 OCTOBER 1924

Stanley Baldwin, in a special message to The Scotsman, says he feels confident that the electorate of Scotland will endorse the sound constructive policy of the Unionist party. He adds that every vote for the Constitutional cause is vital.

Addressing nearly 3000 electors at Perth, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said that there was no precedent for guaranteeing a Russian loan. Russian propaganda in the Empire, he said, had not ceased, and speeches made by members of the Russian Government had convinced him that, if he had money to spare, he would be unwilling to lend it.

M. Rakovsky, the Soviet representative in London, has issued a statement denying the authenticity of the Communist manifesto, and characterising it as a gross forgery. Mr. M’Manus, the Communist leader, denies that he signed the document. The Soviet Government is demanding from the British Government an apology for what it describes as the use of a forgery in an official document.

Viscount Younger, speaking at Dumfries, referred to the Bolshevist plot. This, he said, was a case of life and death for the country, and it was a question which ought to be probed to the uttermost.

Addressing the women electors of Paisley, Herbert Asquith described class warfare as being just as great an offence against moral law as the most sanguinary war on the battlefield. The ultimate ascendancy of one class over another was, he said, the death-knell of liberty.

David Lloyd George, speaking at Chichester, said it had always been said that in order to help agriculture they must have a tariff and a duty, but the countries where they were doing without a duty were the countries where agriculture was most prosperous.