NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 8 December 1923

8 DECEMBER 1923

The General Election result was reported as 253 Unionists, 193 Socialists, 151 Liberals and 5 others.

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said that by looking at the election results, he would have a difficult time ahead.

Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, speaking in Montreal said that when he was in England he had been told by leaders of all the political parties that the attitude taken by the Canadian Government at the time of the Chanak crisis was the right and sound one.