The following events occurred in September 1921:
September 1, 1921 (Thursday) The “Poplar Rates Rebellion” broke out in London after several members of Poplar Borough Council were arrested, including council leader, George Lansbury, for refusing to hand over payments to London County Council. The first "superdreadnought" of the U.S. Navy, USS Washington, was launched at Camden, New Jersey. With an all-electric-driven engine, the warship had eight guns and was capable of a speed of 21 knots. The League of Nations Supreme Council appointed an international commission to determine the Silesian boundary between Germany and Poland, with Paul Hymans of Belgium, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo of China, Count Quinones de Leon of Spain and Dr. Gastoa de Cunha of Brazil.
September 2, 1921 (Friday) The first U.S. Army troops arrived in the state of West Virginia, reaching St. Albans by train to restore order to Mingo County and other areas where thousands of coal miners and strikebreakers were preparing to fight each other. A spokesman for U.S. President Warren G. Harding said that the administration would delay an actual proclamation of martial law in affected counties except as a last resort, noting that "martial law can never exist where courts are open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction." International famine aid to Russia began as 28,000 tons of food were loaded on trains at Riga in Latvia, of which 20,000 tons were from the U.S. and 8,000 tons from European nations. U.S. Army General Leonard Wood announced that he would accept the appointment by U.S. President Harding to become the new Governor-General of the Philippines. The Kingdom of Norway signed a trade agreement giving diplomatic recognition to the government of Soviet Russia. Trade Minister Johan Ludwig Mowinckel signed at Oslo on behalf of Norway, which ratified the treaty on October 1. The Asociacion Argentina de Tennis was founded. The Football Association of Ireland held its first meeting, in Dublin. Died: Austin Dobson, 81, British poet who introduced various forms of French poetry into the English language, including the triolet, the ballade and the rondeau. Anthony F. Lucas (Antonio Francisco Luchich), 65, Croatian-born American engineer, inventor and oil driller who struck the 1901 "Spindletop gusher" that spurred the oil boom in Texas. Napoleone Colajanni, 74, Italian socialist politician and theorist, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 1890
September 3, 1921 (Saturday) On the first full day of U.S. Army intervention in the Battle of Blair Mountain in Mingo County, West Virginia, about 400 of 4,000 armed miners agreed to disarm and surrendered their weapons to the federal troops. Most miners in the insurrection fled into the West Virginia hills, and many hid their weapons. Representatives of U.S. oil companies signed an agreement with the government of Mexico after negotiating a favorable tariff on Mexican petroleum exports. The Republic of China appointed Dr. W. W. Yen to be its chief delegate to the November arms limitation conference. The SS Abessinia, a German-registered cargo ship, was wrecked on Knivestone in the Farne Islands off the coast of England, after being surrendered to the United Kingdom by Germany as part of World War One reparations. The wreckage can still be seen in the North Sea and the site is popular with divers. Ernest Hemingway, at the time a 22-year old American journalist, married 30-year old Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, the first of four marriages for Hemingway. The couple would divorce in 1927 after his affair with Pauline Pfeiffer