NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 5 December 1923

5 DECEMBER 1923

Speaking at Great Malvern, Stanley Baldwin, assured pensioners that the policy of the Government would involve no peril to their interests, as had been insinuated in Liberal quarters. He characterised it as a discreditable insinuation, which showed the bankruptcy of the party that made it.

Austen Chamberlain was prevented from addressing a meeting at West Bromwich being shouted down by Socialists.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, spoke in Cardiff.