Today -100: March 8, 1920: Of home rules, you sunk my battleship, train robberies, and love

Sir Edward Carson, Ulster Unionist leader and treasonist, urges acceptance of Lloyd George’s Home Rule Bill, because it’s better than the alternative of the 1914 Home Rule Act coming into effect.

Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and the Senate Navy Sub-Committee are squabbling over whether awards should be given to officers whose ships were sunk.

The Allies are planning, or at least threatening, to occupy Constantinople to pressure Turkey to stop killing Armenians. They may also make the peace treaty terms harsher.

A band of Hungarians attempt to kidnap former dictator Béla Kun from his hospital bed in Austria. A watchman they bribed finks them out to the cops.

Pancho Villa is being blamed, maybe even correctly, for leading the robbery of a train in which 33 people (19 soldiers, 10 bandits, 4 civilians) are killed and others held for ransom.

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Whereupon the Young Men's Bible Class to which John D. Jr. addressed these words beat him to death, I assume.

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