Thursday January 5, 1922. Interruptions.

On this day in 1922, A.B. Kent of the London Times was kidnapped by the Irish Republican Army, which was upset about an article he had written regarding public opinion in Cork on the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

He was having lunch at a pub at the time.

They released him later that evening.

The Washington Naval Conference adopted a declaration outlawing submarine warfare against merchant ships.

The French, including the French Armenian Legion, withdrew from the Turkish city of Adana which they had held in Turkish Armenia for three years.

Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, age 47, died of a heart attack.  He almost certainly had an earlier one in Brazil on his way to the Antarctic but had refused medical treatment.  His ship was docked at South Georgia at the time, where he was buried.

South Georgia.

Thursday, October 20, 1921. End of the Franco-Turkish War.

France and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey signed the Treaty of Ankara, bringing to an end the Franco Turkish War.  The treat fixed the bordered between Turkey and the French ruled Syrian mandate, which had not been accepted by the National Assembly.

The treaty signaled that France, which had better relations with the National Assembly than other Allied countries, was essentially recognizing the National Assembly as the legitimate government.  It also demonstrated that the Alliance coming out of World War One, which had seen France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy all intervene in Turkey, had effectively come apart during the long-running Greco Turkish War.