NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 7 March 1923

7 MARCH 1923

The Labour Party gained another Parliamentary seat, winning the by-election in Liverpool Edge Hill from the Unionist Party. The seat had been won by William Rutherford for the Unionists in 1922, with a majority of 4,666 over Labour’s Jack Hayes. In the by-election, Jack Hayes secured a majority of 1,050 over the Unionist candidate John Waller Hills. Following his defeat, Hills resigned from his role as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury which he had held since November 1922.

Wilhelm Cuno, the Chancellor of Germany, spoke in the Reichstag condemning the treatment of German officials in the Ruhr Valley by the French occupiers. He warned that the population of the Rhine and the Ruhr were now more determined than ever on resistance.

The death was announced of Sir Owen Thomas who had been the MP for Anglesey since 1918.