Foreign Events - June 1922
June 14.—A triumvirate composed of J. V. Stalin, Leo Kameneff, and A. I. Rykoff has been put in charge of all Russian state affairs during the illness of Premier Lenine, according to a dispatch from Berlin.
June 15.—The draft of the new Irish constitution, embodying connection with the British crown, as established in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and generally placing the relations between Ireland and the Empire on the same basis as Canada and the other Dominions, is made public.
Representatives of 30 nations gather at the Peace Palace at The Hague in a second effort to settle the economic problem of Russia.
June 16.—The Irish Free State holds an election to choose a Parliament as provided for by the treaty with Great Britain. Armed Republican raiders seize ballots in Dublin, and interference with officials is reported from the Sligo and East Mayo areas.
General Chen Chiung-Ming has occupied Canton, it is reported, for the purpose of aiding General Wu Pei-Fu in the reunification of China.
June 17.—Four men and one woman are killed in the Presbyterian district on the south Armagh side of Newry, Ireland, in retaliation, it is believed, for the murders of June 14.
Russia's attitude at the Hague Conference will follow generally that which she assumed at Genoa, announces Maxim Litvinoff, Assistant Foreign Minister.
The South China or Canton Government is crusht by General Chen Chiung-Ming, and President Sun Yat Sen is reported a fugitive.
June 18.—The Roumanian Government protests formally to the Conference at The Hague that Russia has violated the non-aggression pact by sending propaganda into Roumania by airplane.
Chief Justice William H. Taft arrives in England to study court principles and procedure in that country.
June 19.—Following their conference in London, Premiers Lloyd George and Poincare decide to call another conference of European Government heads this month.
A complete victory for the Irish Free State party is indicated in the results of the election thus far recorded.
June 20.—American buildings in Canton are fired on by the gunboats of Sun Yat Sen, South China leader, who has been trying to recapture the city, and the American Minister, Jacob Gould Schurman, asks Rear-Admiral Strauss for protection.
The Prince of Wales arrives in England after a 40,000-mile journey to India, Australia, Japan and the Philippines.
Twenty-five Powers represented at the Hague Conference formally invite Soviet Russia to send a delegation.