NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 9 May 1923

9 MAY 1923

Stanley Baldwin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in the House of Commons that he felt the French and Belgian Governments had acted with undue haste in rejecting the war reparations offer proposed by the Germans.

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and a fine of 100 million marks by the French occupying government’s court martial.

The Labour motion for the rejection of the Rent Restrictions Bill was defeated by 286 votes to 169.

A strongly worded note was handed by the Soviet Government to Britain about the state of affairs between the two nations.