Éamon de Valera, still on the run, issues a decree banning the Siki-McTigue boxing match and all other sports, amusements, horse racing, hunting, etc. in national mourning for the killed and executed Republicans.
Trotsky is also dying, according to the former US ambassador to China, who should know because...? (Update: Amb. Crane will deny having said this.)
Headline of the Day -100:
That’s the wife of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, “dressed as a man.” She probably has a name but the NYT doesn’t know it (Latife, it’s Latife; also, she’s 24, not 19).
France and Belgium will soon have 100,000 troops occupying the Ruhr. More are being sent because they plan to seize the coal mines if German coal companies don’t pay the 40% taxes the occupiers say they are owed, which if I’m getting this right they’ve already paid to the German government, so this would be 80% tax total. The French are also putting hostages – burgomasters and the like – on the trains they’re operating, to prevent sabotage.
There was a general strike in Spain yesterday in response to the assassination in Barcelona of syndicalist labor leader Salvador Seguí, one of several recent political murders. The right-wing are talking about establishing a Fascismo regime.
Rudolph Valentino gets married. Sorry, ladies.
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