NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 8 September 1923

8 SEPTEMBER 1923

The Ambassadors’ Conference has addressed a note to Greece on the subject of the Janina murders. A copy of the note has been sent to the League of Nations Council.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, said that the Government had suffered a rebuff at Geneva and he said that Liberal unity was essential.

At the Trades Union Congress a resolution from the National Union of Railwaymen was passed urging that organised workers should demand a six hour working day.

The death was announced of Sir Edward Ridsdale, a former MP for Brighton.