Today -100: September 2, 1923: Don’t Paxos and Antipaxos cancel each other out?

A huge earthquake hits Japan. Tokyo and Yokohama are on fire and nearly half of Tokyo will go up in flames. The death toll is well over 100,000 (for contrast, the SF quake of 1906 killed 3,000).

Italy occupies two Greek islands near Corfu, Paxos and Antipaxos. An Italian submarine shoots at a Greek steamer. There’s evidently an Italian blockade of Corfu, which I guess they just announced by... shooting at a steamer without warning.

Ireland is finally finishing up tallying  last week’s vote. The government forces (Cumann na nGaedheal) win 63 of 153 seats, Éamon de Valera’s Republicans just 44. PM Cosgrave will rule in alliance with the Farmers’ Party (15 seat), not that it’s necessary as the Republicans will stay out of the Dáil since they won’t take the oath of loyalty to King George. The Republicans include Countess Constance Markievicz and Mary MacSwiney, 2 of the 5 women elected.

Bavarian Nazis – supposedly 400,000 of them – are gathering in, where else, Nuremberg, marching up and down, tearing down republican flags and replacing them with the Kaiser’s, attacking Socialist hq, etc. “Anything may happen.”

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