NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 28 August 1923

28 AUGUST 1923

Neville Chamberlain was appointed as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and William Joynson-Hicks was appointed as the Minister of Health.

Reginald McKenna, in a letter to the Prime Minister, asked to be released from his conditional promise to become Chancellor of the Exchequer due to his poor health.

The British Government stated that it had received the Belgian response to its note on war reparations and the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley. The Government said that a formal response would be issued in due course.