What counts as good news for the Irish Free State administration: Pres. Arthur Griffith makes a speech in Sligo without even being kidnapped. Griffith went to Sligo in defiance of an IRA ban on his speech. He came with a bunch of soldiers, who got into desultory bloodless gunfights with the IRA. Before he went, he made out his will.
Michael Collins warns that Ireland is “rapidly developing a state of civil war.”
In Dublin, the IRA continues to occupy the law courts and other buildings, and the government has likewise fortified the buildings it holds, but neither side seems to be preparing for offensive action. The NYT passes along a joke: “The Black and Tans have gone and now we can have a fight in peace among ourselves.”
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