Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-07-13

Irish Free State by no means ended
the bloody conflict with the republi.
can irregulars. The latter took re.
fuge in hotels and other buildings in
O'Connell street and there continued
the battle until the shells of the regu.
lars set fire to almost every structure
In that part of the street. The con-
Migration could not be stopped and
most of the rebels surrendered: De
Valera, who was with them, was said
to have escaped in disguise and fed
to County Wicklow. Cathal Brugha
minister Of defense in the De Valera
cabinet, refused to surrender and was
seriously wounded. Among the pris-
oners wac Mrs. Terence. icSwiney,
widow of the late lord mayor of Cork,
and Rory O'Conner, commander of the
irregulars, The provisional govern
ment is now putting It's entire military
establishment on an active service
basis and has issued proclamation
calling for recruits.
The republicans are preparing for
final struggle in the vicinity of Cork.
That city is in their hands and, hav-
ing Skibbereen, they claim control Of
the entire county, as we'll as of Coun-
ties Kerry and West Limerick, Water
ford, East Limerick and parts of Tip.
perary and Kilkenny.
n ESPITE the vigorous action of the
~ eayerAnmsept In Berlin, the monarch
lists have been sfiFglng up trouble
in many places In Germany, These
were aggravated by the anti-monarch-
list demonstrations that were staged
on July by the Democrats and Social
lists. One of the Incidents Of tie
week was the attempt to assassinate
Macmillan Harden, the famous edi,
tor who is so thoroughly hated by the
reactionaries.
There Is movement on foot in
Germany that is likely to upset the
cabinet of Chancellor Wirth and re-.
suit in the formation of a purely
soclalistic government in place of the
present oRR, which is coalition of
minorities. 70 forestall this, an offer
has been made to the Independent
Socialists of share in the govern.
inent. The bourgeois parties fear that
this would interfere with Germapy's
obtaining financial relief abroad.
TT LOOKS at this writing as though
! the conference at The Hague would
come no nearer to settling the Rus
sian problem than did that at Genoa.
The soviet delegates in response to
the demands OF the allies submitted
what they called the Russian budget,
but Chairman. Alphand Of the commits
sion characterized It as project,
and the British called 1t "an amazing
document" This budget admitted that
cne-fifth Of the entire revenues con:
sisted of new issues of paper rubles
and undertook to show that the more
rubles were printed the more valuable
they became-amazings indeed. The
budget figures, which were in gold
rubles, were calculated on an arbi-
trary rate in paper rubless every three
months. The allied experts were
dazed by all this.
The Russians caused further dis.
sension by putting out two question
naires demanding TO know the social
positions, the professions, the reye.
nues and the family positions Of ali
previous holders Of property bonds
and securities who have claims against
Russia. Though told this was prac.
tically impossible and unnecessary,
Latvinoff insisted his government must
have this and other information as d
basis for concrete proposals for the
settlement of each case. Finally I