Today -100: February 10, 1922: Grave but confident anxiety

The Northern Irish government complains that the Imperial government failed to protect NI borders against yesterday’s IRA incursions. It would have protested to the Free State government, but it doesn’t recognize anyone in the Free State government, so it protests to the viceroy instead. Owen O’Duffy, chief of staff of the IRA, calls the raids spontaneous and demands the NI government release IRA prisoners (those held by the British were amnestied, those held by NI not so much).

British Indian police fire on a mob of 10,000 at Tiruvannamalai, 85 miles from Madras, killing at least 3.

Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, says there is “cause for grave but confident anxiety” about India. He says India is a big country, so riots in one part don’t mean that the whole of India is in revolt; Montagu is a “glass half in revolt” kind of guy. He says self-government will be given to India slowly. Super duper slowly. And within the Empire, of course.

The House Census Committee votes 8-6 against reapportionment based on the 1920 census, you know, the thing that the Constitution requires them to do.

A Minnesota Chippewa man dies, supposedly at age 138.

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