NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 3 October 1923
3 OCTOBER 1923
Speaking at the Royal Colonial Institute dinner to the overseas Prime Ministers and representatives of India, the Duke of Connaught said that the unity of the Empire was vital not only to the British Empire itself, but even more so to a distracted Europe.
Hans von Raumer, the German Minister of Economics, resigned and it was reported that the entire Cabinet might also quit.