In its third announcement this month of a British royal getting engaged, the NYT actually gets it right! Prince Albert, the Grand Old Duke of York, is engaged to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Congrats, future King George VI & Queen Mum.
French soldiers shoot their first Germans of the occupation of the Ruhr, opening fire on some quarreling Communists & Nationalists, killing 1 and wounding 2, in Bochum, which they have just occupied as they extend beyond the initial seizure of Essen to the whole Ruhr. The German Coal Syndicate orders Ruhr coal owners not to deliver coal to the French even if they pay cash money. They seem to be daring the French to confiscate and run the mines.
France officially informs the US that its 45,000 soldiers occupying the Ruhr are all white.
Lithuanian “irregulars” seize Memel. Wait, the French surrender to just thirty (30) Lithuanians? They Lithuanians aren’t looking for Lithuania to annex the city, just the removal of the Germans it. I guess that explains the French white flag.
The Irish Free State executes 5 more people for possessing firearms.
George V+1 otherwise the Queen Mum would have been married to her father-in-law.
ReplyDeleteYup, corrected. Thanks.
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