Lex Anteinternet: Chinese Warlord Period

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Wednesday, May 16, 1923. Chinese bandit situation turns worse.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Friday, June 16, 1922. Yes for the Free State

The Irish General Election was held. Sinn Féin went into the election split into pro and anti treaty camps, with the pro treaty wing led by Michael Collins winning 58 of the 128 seats. The anti treaty faction lead by Éamon de Valera took 34. While that result showed fairly clearly that a majority of the Irish (whom in truth would likely have settled for home rule) supported the treaty, it did leave the pro treat portion of the party six seats short of a majority.

The rest of the votes for the 34 remaining seats went to the pro treaty Labour Party (17), the Independents (9), the agrarian Farmers Party (7) and the Businessman's Party (1). This left the Dail with a clear pro treaty majority.

Chen Chiung-ming captured Guangzhou and announced the departure of Southern China's secessionist leaders, including President Sun Yat-sen. This was also announced as a step towards reuniting China.

Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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