The Dáil Éireann approved the Irish Free State Constitution Act of 1922. It would become effective on December 6, 1922, when King George V proclaimed it, which created the Irish Free State as an independent and coequal member of the British Commonwealth.
On the same day, the Irish Republican Army declared the formation of a rival republican government with Eamon de Valera as "President of Ireland", a cabinet of ministers and a twelve member Council of State. By this point, however, the IRA did not holding any Irish territory of consequence.
Mussolini delivered an ultimatum to the Italian government, demanding that it surrender power to the Fascists.
Prince Andrew of Greece, a Greek army officer, was arrested on Corfu and charged with contributing the disastrous Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War. The Prince, the father of the late Prince Consort Philip (Philippos) of the United Kingdom, would be allowed to leave the country. Other Greek officers were executed or sentenced to long prison sentences.
The Red Army took Vladivostok. As it did so, Imperial Russian General Mikhail Diterikhs was evacuated with such troops as could be evacuated by the Japanese.
Diterkhs was descended from German Lutherans from the Sudentenland and was a deeply religious Orthodox Christian. He moved to China, as many Russian Whites from the far eastern part of Siberia did, where he died at age 63 in 1937.
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