AUG. 25-SEPT. l8 



DIARY OF EVENTS 1911 



Republic. Liverpool transport workers' strike settled. 

 British steamer "Foam Queen" seized in London, owing to 

 suspicion of carrying men and war material to a foreign 

 revolutionary govt. 



25. French Govt. formally recognise Portuguese Repub- 

 lic. British steamer "Arizona" seized at Barrow-in-Fur- 

 ness on suspicion of carrying men and war material to a 

 foreign revolutionary govt. Lehigh Valley train wrecked 

 near Manchester, N. Y.; 37 lives lost. Harry N. Atwood 

 reaches New York in his aeroplane flight from St. Louis 

 (begun Aug. 14), establishing new world's record for 

 distance. 



26. Panic at cinematograph show, Canonsburg, Pa.; 25 

 killed, many injured. Motor char a bane accident near 

 Medomsley, Durham; 10 killed, 20 injured. Argentine 

 battleship "Rivadavia." largest in the world, launched at 

 Quincy, Mass. U. S. Postmaster-General announces that 

 after Sept. i, magazines will be transported in carloads as 

 fast freight. In a test of guns designed for use against 

 aeroplanes, made at Indian Head, Md., a projectile from a 

 one-pounder reached a calculated height of 10,800 feet. 



27. German Emperor speaks at Hamburg on the "place 

 in the sun" which should be secured for Germany by an 

 increase in her navy. Pope receives Cardinal Archbishop 

 of Rio de Janeiro in Rome and bestows blessing on churches 

 of South America. Violent wind-storm at Charleston, 

 S. C., destroys fifteen lives and a million dollars' worth of 

 property. 



28. Mr. Redmond Barry, Attorney-General of Ireland, 

 appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Dr. Gore, Bishop 

 of Birmingham, made Bishop of Oxford. Emperors of 

 Russia and Japan exchange felicitations on final settlement 

 of all claims arising from Russo-Japanese War. United 

 States acquire four small islands at western end of Panama 

 Canal. 



29. Australian Commonwealth Government apply to 

 British Admiralty for 1,683 naval officers and men. Mr. 

 Lloyd George speaks in Wales on the duty of churches 

 towards economic unrest. Warwickshire wins English 

 County Cricket Championship for first time. 



30. British Association meeting opens in Portsmouth; 

 Sir William Ramsay delivers presidential address on "The 

 Sources of Energy," and the probable exhaustion in 175 

 years of British coal supply. M. Cambon returns to Berlin 

 with the French proposals for an agreement with Germany, 

 which are stated to include cession of territory in French 

 Congo. 



31. Inquest on two men shot by soldiers at Liverpool on 

 Aug. 15 results in verdict of "justifiable homicide." 

 Threatened strike on Great Eastern Railway, England, 

 averted by Board of Trade. "Adoration of the Magi" by 

 Mabuse sold by Dowager Countess of Carlisle to National 

 Gallery, England, for 40,000. Senor Madero nominated 

 for presidency of Mexico. 



September: 



1. Rioting in northern France because of high food 

 prices. Mr. J. J. Frisbie, American airman, killed at 

 Norton, Kansas. 



2. New Portuguese Cabinet formed under Senhor 

 Chagas, with Dr. Vasconcellos as Foreign Minister. 

 Further food riots in France. Cholera outbreak at Con- 

 stantinople; 36 cases, 16 deaths. Tramcar accident at 

 New Cross, London; i killed, 17 injured. Capt. Gamine 

 and Lieut, de Grailly, French military airmen, killed flying 

 to manoeuvres. M. Marron, French airman, killed at 

 Chartres. Lord Gladstone speaks at Salisbury, Rhodesia, 



,'n black peril. Banquet given by the Tsar at St. Peters- 

 urg to King Peter of Servia. Violent volcanic eruption in 

 the Bogoslof Islands, Alaska, throws up several new islands. 



3. Great fire at Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, 

 Glasgow. German Emperor speaks at Potsdam on Ger- 

 man-American friendship at unveiling of statue to General 

 von Steuben, given by Americans. Marriage of Princess 

 Helena of Servia to Duke Ivan Constantinovitch at 

 Peterhof. 



4. Trade Union Congress of Great Britain opens at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. Further fire in Glasgow destroys 

 Town Hall and Tol booth. President Failieres reviews 

 French Navy at Toulon. French Government's Morocco 

 proposals communicated to Herr yon Kiderlen-Waechter 

 in Berlin. M. Garros, French airman, reaches record 

 height of 13,800 ft. at St. Milo. 



5. Trade Union Congress pass resolutions condemning 

 use of military in recent strikes, and requiring Government 

 to bring in measure reversing Osborne judgment. Dr. 

 H. Russell Wakefield appointed Bishop of Birmingham. 

 M. Leforestier, French airman, killed at Huelva, Spain. 

 Lord Denman opens Federal parliament at Melbourne. 

 German Emperor holds naval review at Kiel. T. W. 



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Burgess, English athlete, swims across English Channel 

 from S. Foreland to Cape Grisnez. " Macbeth " produced 

 by Sir Herbert Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London. 

 Floods in Yangtse Kiang valley, China; many deaths. 



6. Ex-Shah of Persia's army defeated. Canada with- 

 draws from Fisheries Treaty of 1908 with United States. 

 Further food rjots in France. Mr. Deakin, speaking in 

 Australian Parliament, denounces suggestion that Australia 

 might remain neutral in time of war. Canadian Govern- 

 ment seizes American fishing schooner at Louisburg, Cape 

 Breton Is., for violating treaty of 1818. 



7. Strike riots at Wexford, Ireland. Dr. F. E. Ridgway 

 appointed Bishop of Salisbury. Report of Government 

 commission on high food prices issued in France. Pres. 

 Taft speaks in Connecticut, deprecating Senate Com- 

 mittee's attitude to arbitration treaties. British shipping 

 companies engaged in Atlantic trade announce 10 per cent 

 increase in freight rates. 



8. Rice famine riots reported in China. Fighting 

 between Peruvians and Bolivians at Manuripe. Capt. 

 Postnikoff, Russian General Staff, sentenced to 8 years' 

 penal servitude for high treason. Collapse of annex to 

 El Dorado Theatre at Nice kills 60 workmen. Lieut. -Col. 

 Sir H. L. Gallwey appointed Governor of Gambia. 

 Strikes of schoolboys in Liverpool, Hull, Grimsby, Sheffield 

 and other English towns. 



Q. First aerial post in United Kingdom inaugurated 

 between Hendon and Windsor. Lord Mayor of London 

 arrives in Vienna on a Municipal visit. Cunard liner 

 "Lusitania" completes round trip to New York and back 

 in just over 12 days. Motor boat accident on Lake 

 Trasimene causes loss of 14 lives. Raimund Eyring, 

 German airman, killed at Weil. Mr. Galbraith Cole 

 ordered by Governor of Mombasa to be deported for killing 

 a native and exciting racial enmity.- Run on German 

 savings banks owing to fear of war with France. Corpora- 

 tion of $100,000,000, affiliated with Southern Pacific rail- 

 road, formed to take over trolley lines in California, U.S.A. 



10. German Socialist conference opens at Jena with 

 speech by Herr Bebel on Morocco question. 



11. German _army manoeuvres begin. Attempt to 

 repeal Prohibition laws of 1884 in Maine defeated on 

 popular vote by narrow majority. Mr. Ure speaks at 

 Glasgow on Taxation of Land Values. Protest meetings 

 in Paris against high food prices. Mr. Hubert, British 

 airman, injured in aerial post at Hendon. Chinese cruiser 

 "Hai Chi" visits New York. Eruption of Mount Etna 

 causes much damage. 



12. Germany's counter proposals on Morocco question 

 considered by French Cabinet. French army manoeuvres 

 begin at Belfort. Rev. S. Swann rows across English 

 Channel from Dover to Sangatte, in 3 hours 50 min. 

 Lieut. Chotard, French military airman, killed near 

 Versailles. Mr. R. Fowler, American airman, starts flight 

 across America. Eleven men of ijth Uhlan regiment 

 drowned whilst swimming horses across the Elbe near 

 Pirna. Serious unrest reported from Szechuan, China. 

 Port Arthur opened by Japan to merchant shipping. 

 Fourth conference of governors of states of U. S. begins 

 at Spring Lake, N. J. 



13. Veto Bill restricting power of Upper House rejected 

 by legislative Council of South Australia. German 

 Emperor at close of German army manoeuvres expresses 

 thanks to aviators. Food riots at Criel, France.- Strike 

 of tailors and dressmakers in New York. Quincentenary 

 celebration at St. Andrew's University, Scotland.-*-St. 

 Leger race at Doncaster won by "Prince Palatine." 



14. M. Stolypin, Russian Premier, mortally wounded by 

 Bogroff,an Anarchist, at gala performance, Kieff. Nomina- 

 tion of candidates for Canadian parliament. Food riots 

 at Charleville, France; troops called out. 



15. Mr. John Redmond speaks at Dublin on Home Rule 

 during Irish tour of Eighty Club. Pres. Taft begins cam- 

 paigning tour of 15,000 miles. Lord Rosebery speaks at 

 University College, Dundee, on universities of the future. 

 M. Nieuport, French airman, fatally injured at Charny, 

 France. 



16. Strike of goods porters declared on Irish railways. 

 Jubilee of British Post Office savings banks.- Herr Harden 

 speaks at Berlin on German policy in Morocco. Pres. 

 Taft speaks at Erie, Pa., on Arbitration Treaties. Motor 

 accident during race at Syracuse, N. Y.; 9 persons killed 

 and 14 injured. 



17. Lieut. R. A. Cammell, British military airman, killed 

 at Hendon. Food riots at Vienna; martial law declared. 



18. Death of M. Stolypin, Russian Premier. Reported 

 that Salia-ed-Dowleh has become Pretender to Persian 

 throne. Revolutionary plot discovered at Barcelona, and 

 general strike reported at Valencia, Spain. German reply 



