DIARY OF EVENTS 1911 



Nov. 9-25 



9. King George unveils memorial to Edward VII in 

 Guards' Chapel, London. At Guildhall banquet Mr. 

 Asquith speaks on home affairs and foreign relations, and 

 Mr. Churchill on the supremacy of the British Navy. 

 London taxi-cab strike partially settled. Debate in Ger- 

 man Reichstag on Franco-German treaties opened by 

 Imperial Chancellor; Conservative attack on England 

 reported to have been applauded by the Crown Prince. 

 Chinese Republic proclaimed at Canton; viceroy seeks 

 British protection at Hong-Kong. National Union of 

 Women's Suffrage of Great Britain issues protest against 

 exclusion of women from proposed Manhood Suffrage Bill. 

 Mr. E. T. Hooley examined in London Court of Bank- 

 ruptcy. Nobel prize for literature awarded to Maurice 

 Maeterlinck. U. S. municipal _ elections marked by 

 Socialist successes. Sultan Mulai Hafid of Morocco con- 

 sents to conditions of Franco-German treaty of November 

 4. U. S. Commerce Court grants temporary injunction, 

 staying Interstate Commerce Commission's order affecting 

 reductions in rates from points East to points between 

 Missouri river and Pacific Coast. Dedication of granite 

 temple over the cabin near Hodgenville, in which Abraham 

 Lincoln was born. 



10. Prince Arthur of Connaught, the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and Lord Morley, 

 appointed by King George as a Commission to transact 

 business for him during his absence in India. Massacre by 

 Manchus at Nanking. The Throne in China accepts the 

 principles of the Constitution as formulated by the National 

 Assembly. Dockyard Arsenal at Shanghai captured Dy 

 rebels. Hankau reported to be in flames. Italian positions 

 in Tripoli attacked by Turks and Arabs. Persian Govt. 

 refuse to offer apology to Russia for insult alleged to have 

 been offered to two consular agents by gendarmerie. 

 Rev. A. Douglas, British Missionary, shot owing to a 

 misapprehension by a Portuguese official in Nyasaland. 



11. King George and Queen Mary leave England for 

 India. Russia sends ultimatum to Persia, and Teheran 

 Cabinet resigns. It is stated that the German Emperor's 

 displeasure with the Crown Prince is shown by his being 

 sent to Dantzig. Conclusion of Reichstag debate _on 

 Franco-German treaties. German battleship "Kaiserin" 

 launched at Kiel. Sefior Vasconcelles forms new Ministry 

 in Portugal. 



12. Pres. Taft returns to Washington after 15,000 miles' 

 political tour. Spanish municipal elections show majority 

 for Monarchists. 



13. Mr. Bonar Law chosen Unionist leader in British 

 House of Commons. Oldham by-election; victory of Mr. 

 Bartley Denniss (Unionist), majority 1,632. Yuan Shih-kai 

 arrives in Peking. New London Opera House under Mr. 

 Hammerstein opens with "Quo Vadis." Birmingham 

 stipendiary magistrate prohibits boxing contest for World's 

 Featherweight Championship as illegal in England. 

 Resignation of Sultan of Zanzibar. American Federation 

 of Labour begins its 3ist Annual Convention at Atlanta, 

 Ga. Monument erected by United Mine Workers of 

 America, is unveiled at Cherry, 111., to memory of miners 

 who lost their lives in Cherry mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. 



14. Imperial Edict is issued in China commanding Yuan 

 Shih-kai to accept Premiership. Special commission 

 appointed to reorganise French Foreign Office. Bavarian 

 Diet dissolved owing to conflict between govt. and Centre 

 Party. Dr. Waldstein resigns Slade Professorship of Fine 

 Art at Cambridge University (Eng.), and offers 1,000 to 

 promote study of architecture. MM. Bienaime' and 

 Rumpelmayer, two French airmen, fly from Compiegne 

 to Courtland, 1,056 miles, in i6K hours. U. S. Commerce 

 Court holds that action of Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion in dividing country into rate zones (July 26) was 

 invalid. 



1 5. Miners' Federation of Great Britain decide to make 

 further efforts to secure settlement of minimum wage ques- 

 tion without resorting to strike. Huth library sale begins 

 in London. Commander F. G. Brine washed overboard 

 from H.M.S. "St. Vincent" and drowned. 



16. Centenary of John Bright's birth celebrated at 

 Rochdale, Lancashire. King of Servia visits Paris. 

 Yuan Shih-kai forms Cabinet in China. Mr. Bonar Law, 

 ns Leader of Unionist Party, addresses National Union 

 Conference in Leeds on Unionist policy. Duke and 

 Duchess of Connaught open Canadian Parliament. 

 White Star Company s action in the Admiralty Division of 

 the High Court against H.M.S. "Hawke" for damaging 

 "Olympic" in collision begins in London. Portuguese 

 parliament reopens with speech on Government's policy 

 by Senhor Vasconcellos, the new Premier. Russian Govt. 

 receiving no reply to ultimatum to Persia, despatched 

 troops to Kazvin. Notification of pulmonary tuberculosis 



made compulsory in Great Britain. Mr. Roosevelt attacks 

 Pres. Taft's attitude to the Trusts in The Outlook (New 

 York). Federal grand jury at New York indicts thirteen 

 officials of Baltimore and Ohio and Louisville and Nashville 

 Railroads for rebating. 



17. Yuan Shih-kai orders troops to Hankau to suppress 

 Chinese rebels. Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter, German 

 Foreign Secretary, makes statement before Budget Com- 

 mittee of Reichstag with regard to new treaties. Mr. 

 Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George receive a deputation at 

 Downing Street, on Woman's Suffrage. Crystal Palace, 

 London, sold to Lord Plymouth for 210.000. Court of 

 Appeal in London declares Forms 4 and 8 for valuation 

 returns under Finance Act invalid (see May 9). Earth- 

 quake in Southern and Central Germany. Strike in 

 French Govt. dockyard at Lorient; settled next day. 



18. Night mail train from Paris to Marseilles robbed by 

 thieves, who escape. Elections in Victoria, Australia, 

 reveal decline in power of Labour Party. British Legation 

 at Teheran requests King George to mediate between 

 Persia and Russia. Russia breaks off diplomatic rela- 

 tions with Persia. H.M.S. "Centurion" launched at 

 Devonport by Mrs. Winston Churchill. Liepmannssohn's 

 sale of musical autographs and M.S.S. begins in Berlin. 

 In a mine of Bottom Creek Coal and Coke Co., Vivian, 

 W. Va., about 30 miners are killed by coal-dusi explosion. 

 Bernardo Reyes and others indicted by U. S. District 

 Court in Texas for violating neutrality laws by fitting out 

 an expedition against Mexico. 



19. British railwaymen meet in London to discuss report 

 of Govt. Inquiry Commission; conflicting decisions. 

 Pres. Caceres of San Domingo assassinated. In India, 

 Major Bower's punitive expedition captures an Abor 

 entrenched position. 



20. King George and Queen Mary meet Khedive and 

 Lord Kitchener at Port Said. Meeting at Memorial Hall, 

 Farringdon Street, London, at which Mr. McCullagh, a war 

 correspondent, describes alleged Italian atrocities in Tripoli. 

 Yuan Shih-kai has interview with Peking correspondent 

 of the Times on condition of China. Dr. Mawson's 

 Antarctic expedition starts from Adelaide, and a Japanese 

 expedition starts from Sydney. Fra Angelico's "Madonna 

 della Stella" stolen from San Marco Museum, Florence. 

 Mazarine Bible (Huth collection) sold in London for 5,800. 



21. Suffragist raid in Whitehall, London; over 200 

 arrests. General Botha speaks in Bloemfontein on need 

 of national union of the two white races in S. Africa. 

 S. Somerset by-election results in Unionist gain by return 

 of Hon. A. Herbert, majority 148. Extracts from German 

 Imperial Chancellor's speech to Budget Committee of 

 Reichstag published in Berlin. British Consular report 

 on Belgian Congo issued. Another Abor entrenchment 

 captured; Major Bower slightly wounded. 



aa. 148 cases, arising out of London Suffragist raid, 

 come before magistrate at Bow Street. M. Caillaux 

 announces to Foreign Affairs Committee of French Senate 

 that the secret clauses of the Anglo-French Declaration of 

 1904 will be published. 



23. Persian Foreign Minister replies to Russia, conceding 

 Russian demands. Herts (Hitchin) by-election results 

 in return of Lord Robert Cecil, majority 1,633. Mrs. 

 Pethick Lawrence sentenced to one month in Second 

 Division for participation in London Suffragist raid. 

 Railway bridge collapses near Montreuil-Bellay, France, 

 throwing train into river; 30 killed. Crown Prince of 

 Sweden undergoes operation for appendicitis. Debate in 

 French Chamber of Deputies on Government's alleged 

 employment of agents provocateurs. Italy notifies Powers 

 of her intention to blockade Dardanelles. 



24. Anglo-French Declaration of 1004 concerning Egypt 

 and Morocco, with five secret Articles, published in Lon- 

 don and Paris. Explosion at Bibby's oil-cake mills, Liver- 

 pool; 27 killed, over 100 injured. Sharp fighting at Tripoli 

 and Derna; heavy Arab losses. Mr. Lloyd George speaks 

 at Bath on Woman's Suffrage. British Medical Association 

 decide to oppose working of Insurance Bill unless they get 

 satisfactory terms from County Committees. Death of 

 Marquess Komura, Japanese statesman. " Madonna della 

 Stella" of Fra Angelico, stolen on November 20, is re- 

 covered. 



25- Mr. Charles Brookfield appointed Joint Examiner of 

 Plays in Great Britain from January i next. Miss Felicia 

 Lyne, American prima donna, makes her dbut in grand 

 opera at the London Opera House in "Rigoletto." Lieut, 

 von Loringhoven, German aeronaut, killed at Doberitz. 

 Lieut. C. F. Dugdale, British cavalry officer, killed in riding 

 school at Rome. Nanking bombarded by Chinese revolu- 

 tionaries. Rioting in Brazil over election of State 

 Governor. 



