Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-29
FOREIGN

| Jan. 9-British unearthed Irish plot to
blow up the houses of parliament.
Jan 12-Leygues ministry overthrown by
| French chamber of deputies.
| Jan. 15-Briand made premier of France.
Jan. 22-Irish leaders opened major Of
| fenslve" against British forces.
Feb. 4-Greek cabinet headed by Rial
| lis resigned
| Feb. 5..spltanl of Turkey deposed as
head of Mohammedan religion by Islam
itc congress at Sivas and Emir Feisal
| appointed.
| Feb. 27-Widespread revolt against sovi-
| ct rule in parts of Russia.
| March S-During bombardment of work
| insmen's quarters in Moscow by Bolshev-
| list artillery several hundred persons We're
| killed or wounded.
Eduardo Dato, premier and minister of
| marine, assassinated at Madrid. Spain
| March 14--Six Sim Fein prisoners con-
| victed of completely in killing of British
soldiers in Ireland hanged in Mount Joy
| prison.
March 15-Talaat Pasha, former grand
| vizier and Turkish minister of finance,
assassinated by Armenian in Berlin.
| March M-Fifty communists and police
men killed in Red revolt in Industrial re-
| Sions of central Germany.
\ March 27-Former Emperor Charles
made attempt to regain throne of Hun
gary, but Regent HortAy refused to yield.
March MISUNDERSTANDING, Jugo-Savia
| and Rumania modified to prevent res
| toration of Charles
April 1--Allies' council of ambassadors
| warned Hungary the restoration of the
| Hapsburgs would not be tolerated, and
| Hungarian national assembly condemned
| attempted coup of Charles.
| Lord Talbot, leading British Roman
Catholic, appointed lord lieutenant OF
| Ireland.
Coal miners of Great Britain struck.
| April 5-Former Emperor Charles left
Hungary for Switzerland.
| April DR. Sun Vat Sen elected Presi-
l Int, .Nfy IL tn ~fS Il, VI
| April 9-Natonal Bank of Cuba sus-
| pended.
April 14-British transport workers and
! railway men decided not to join in
strike.
April 17-U. S. government decided Dr..
| Cuba in November.
| April 1S-Province of Ontario. Canada
| voted bone dry"
| April 29--Alfredo Zayas proclaimed
| President-elect of Cuba.
| British coal strike negotiations aban-
| doned.
May lo-Dr. With became German
| chancellor.
May 22-Serlous anti-British outbreak
| in Alexandria, Egypt.
| May 25--Dublin custom house burned by
| Sim Feiners.
vladvostok seized by anti-Boshevists.
June New parliament Of Northern
| Ireland organized in Belfast.
| June 22-ISing George formally opened
| the Ulster parliament.
June 25-Lloyd George United De Val
| era to a conference on Ireland.
July SIDE Valera agreed to conference
| IN London and cessation of all hostilities
| in Ireland was announced
July 2l-De Valera received British Of
fer for settlement of Irish troubles and
took it to Dublin.
Aug. s-soviet Russian government
abandoned state ownership of all but a
| few of the largest industries
| Aug. 11-Baron Byng of Vimy Ridge in
augurated governor general of Canada.
| Aug. 2l-AleXander proclaimed king of
the Serbians Croats and Slovenes.
/ Aug. 23-IImir Feisal became king of the
Irak region, the new Arab state of Meso-
potama.
Aug. 2G-The irish refused Britain's Of
fer and Lloyd George warned them
! against delaying settlement.
Matthias nirzberger, German statesman,
assassinated.
/ Aug. 2T-Malabar district of British In
dia put under military rule because of Sc
rous rioting by Mopiahs
Sept British cabinet, in answer to
4 Sim Icein note, asked De Valera to send
delecates to another conference on Sept
90, imposing condition that Ireland must
remain within the empire.
Sept. 14-Norway prohibited importation
of liquors and wines containing more than
| II per cent alcohol.
Lloyd George received reply from De
Valera insisting on lreland's right to Sc
! cede. and thereupoa Cancelled the proposed
conference