Tuesday, July 10, 1923. End of Paraguayan Civil War, Flooding in Natrona County.

The Paraguayan Civil War ended former President Manuel Gondra and his supporters, the Gondraists, entering the capital.  It was the second Paraguayan civil war in a decade, with the leaders of opposite sides in the 1922-23 conflict having been on the same side in the 1911 conflict.  A Third Paraguayan Civil War would be fought in 1947.

The Paraguayan military had been split by the conflict, with various units on either side.

The Curia Julia, the seat of the Roman Senate, was purchased by the Italian government.

Marguerite Ailibert, originally a prostitute and later a French courtesan, who had a wartime affair with Prince Edward, Prince of Wales and later king, shot and killed her husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey.  They were vacationing in London. They'd been married six months.  It was her second marriage.

Defended by Edward Marshall Hall she was found innocent of murder.  She died in Paris in 1971 at age 80.

There are probably a pile of lessons in Ailibert's story, one of which is that the fame of lawyers, and Hall was famous, doesn't survive their own era as a rule.  Ailibert was an attrative woman, and skilled in her craft obviously, which serves as a warning in and of itself.

President Harding visited Juneau.  Based on a photo of his visit, it was rainy.

It had been rainy the day before in Natrona County, Wyoming, causing disastrous flooding.

Tuesday, June 12, 1923. Trouble in China.

The remaining eight hostages taken by train bandits in what became known as the Linceng Outrage were freed.  The payment of ransom by Shanghai mobster Du Yuesheng to Sun Meiyao of the Shandong Outlaws resulted in the final freedom of what originally had been 300 such hostages.

Du Yuesheng, who controlled the Shanghai opium trade, would become a significant supporter of Chiang Kai Shek, and has been honored with a memorial in Taiwan, where he died.

Sun Meiyao would be executed by the Chinese Army in December.

On the same day, Chinese general Feng Yuxiang issued an ultimatum to Chinese President Li Yuanhong to resign.  He himself would go on to briefly lead the country, and then support the Nationalist as well, before becoming, in later years, a critic of it.  While a Christian, he was comfortable with the Communist regime and was honored by it when he died in 1953.

Juneau Alaska, June 12, 1923.