Today -100: May 18, 1920: Of dry rulings, sending in soldiers, and proxy votes

Headline of the Day -100:

Britain sends another couple of thousand troops to Ireland, which surely just makes the case for independence clearer. Other Irish news: more street fighting in Derry, more police barracks burned down, most tax records seized and destroyed.

170 French deputies will introduce a measure to give votes to every man, woman and child, the latter to be exercised by the father, or by the mother if the father is dead. The deputy responsible for the bill notes that many families do not have male heads thanks to the war, and those families now go unrepresented.

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