Connecticut western news., 1922-01-05

daily occurrence. The Irish were eSpe- 1 cially eXasperated by the execution of
 a number of prisoners convicted of l cOmplicity in the killing of soldiers.
 The appointment of Lord Talbot, lead
 ing British Roman Catholic, as lord l lieutenant of Ireland, failed of It's eff
 feet. On May 25 the Sim Feiners burned the Dublin custom house, and 1 on June 30 they reelected Eamonn de Valera president of the Irish repub- lic." Meanwhile the new government of northern Ireland was organized, with Sir James Craig as premier, and on June p King George went across to open the Ulster parliament. De Valera
 on July 9 accepted the invitation of Premier Lloyd George to a conference
 in London, and truce was announced.
 Then began the series of negotiations
 that lasted through the remainder of
 the year. Offers and counter offers
 were made, and finally Britain prof fered Ireland full status as a dominion
 within the empire, to be known as the Irish Free State. A treaty to this
 effect was ratified by the British par
 liament and submitted to dail eireann.
 Ulster was not consulted, but was given the option of becoming a part
 of the Irish Free state or retaining her status. Angrily she chose the latter.
 Charles, ex-emperOr of AustriaHun- gary, made two futile efforts to regain the Hungarian throne. On March 27 he appeared in Hungary without forces and claimed the crown, but Regent Horthy refused to step aside. CzechO- slovakia, Jugo-SlaTeA and Rumania mobilized to frustrate the coup and the allied council of ambassadors warned Hungary that the restoration of the Hapsburg regime would not be toler- ated. So Charles returned to his place of refuge in Switzerland. But he was not through, for on October 21 he and his wife, Zita, went by airplane to Hungary and rallied a considerable number of supporters who proclaimed Charles king. Again the "little en- tente" prepared for action, but Regent HOrthy led his army out of Budapest and defeated the Oarlists in a real bat tie. The former emperor and empress were taken prisoner, as were a number of prominent Hungarian nobles. The allies decreed that Charles must be exiled, and in November he and Zita were taken to Funchal, Madeira.
 Russia's year was one of fighting, famine and efforts to resume relations with other nations. The soviet gov ernment held its own against repeated revolts, which included risings of the workingmen of Moscow, of peas ants under Antonov, and an invasion of the Ukraine by Petlura, which for a time threatened to be successful. Failure of the crops brought a terrible famine In the VOlga region. Many thousands starved to death and even the American relief administration, which took charge of the situatiOn could only partially check the disaster In seeking to break through the ring of isolation surrounding it, the Moscow government gradually receded from its cOmmunistlc principles. It sought the aid of foreign capital, and on August 9 1t abandoned state ownership of all but a few of the largest industries. Treaties were made with the Baltic states and with Turkey, and tempt ing offers of concessions were held out to other nations. In a notable announcement on October 21 Premier Lenin admitted the economic defeat of communism.
 Old King Peter of Serbia died in Belgrade on August IT, and four days later his son Alexander was pro claimed king of Jugo-Slavia. He was reluctant to leave Paris, however, and it was not until November that he went to Belgrade and assumed his crown. Portugal was upset by sev- eral revolutionary movements toward the close of the year. On August 19 the ministry was OverthrOwn by a mili- tary coup and several cabinet mem- bers, including Premier Granjo, were assassinated. A few days later plot of the royalists was uncovered, and in November Carvalho MesQuita led a re- volt. Because of these disorders and of the spread of bOlshevism the pow CTS began consideration of plan for intervention. Spain had rebels, also the trtbesmen of Morocco. Against them she maintained wearying and expensive warfare for months. And while on the subject of rebellion, men, tion must be made of the revolt of the Moplahs on the Malabar coast of India, which caused the British gov ernment much annoyance and not a few lives.
 There were communist outbreaks in Germany in March, and on August 26 Matthias Erzberger, the German states man who signed the treaty of Yer sailIes, was assassinated. Doctor Wirth, who became chancellor on May 10, re signed with his cabinet on October p, but was persuaded to remain in office and form a new ministry. In NOvem- Der there were riots in many German
 cities due to the high prices of food
 The chauvinistic element in Japan
 was active, especially after the Wash ington conference opened, and on No