NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 8 July 1924
8 JULY 1924
The House of Lords discussed Lord Middleton’s motion which was subsequently withdrawn-calling attention to the present conditions of trade and unemployment.
On the Foreign Office Vote in the House of Commons the Prime Minister made a statement in regard to the misunderstanding with France over the invitations to the Inter-Allied Conference.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, is leaving to-day for Paris, where he will have an interview with Édouard Herriot, the French Premier.
The Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons that he had approached the question of the Channel Tunnel with a predisposition in favour of the project, but the evidence before the Committee of Imperial Defence was such that he was forced to an opposite conclusion. The Committee unanimously recommended that at present the tunnel should not be proceeded with. The Government therefore, had no alternative but to accept the Committee’s advice.
The Prince of Wales unveiled in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, a tablet in memory of the million dead of the British Empire who fell in the war. After the ceremony His Royal Highness handed to President Doumergue a message from King George.
The Japanese Government proposed to strengthen the air forces attached to the Navy by the addition of eleven squadrons.
Ramsay MacDonald, in a letter to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., Socialist candidate in the Lewes by-election, claims that although the Labour Government has been in office only five months it has in that short time already accomplished enough to merit the support of all good citizens.
