DEC. 29-jAN. 24 



DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



XXI 



Yuan Shih-kai causes issue of an edict in which the 

 Throne expresses itself willing to abide by decision of 

 National Convention. Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago, receives gift of $250,000 from N. W. Harris. 



29. Mr. Lloyd George speaks at Cardiff on the Churches 

 and poverty Chinese provisional Convention sitting at 

 Nanking is reported to have elected Dr. Sun Yat Sen as 

 Pres. of Chinese Republic. Patriarch of Lisbon and other 

 Church dignitaries expelled from their dioceses by P >rtu- 

 guese Govt. Disclosure of secret negotiations between 

 individual French ministers and Germany made before 

 Senate Committee on Franco-German treaty. 



30. King George and Queen Mary arrive at Calcutta 

 and are received with great enthusiasm. Resignation of 

 Turkish Cabinet. Peace banquet in New York addressed 

 by Pres. Taft, who replies to Mr. Roosevelt's criticisms of 

 Arbitration Treaties. Metropolitan Street Railway system 

 in New York absorbed by New York Railways Company 

 with Theodore P; Shonts as Pres. Extension of S. Wales 

 mining strike. 



31. The business of the National Telephone Company m 

 England passes to H.M.'s Govt., aiid telephone service 

 comes completely under Post Office. 



January: 1912 



1. Fighting between Chinese Revolutionists and Im- 

 perialists resumed at Hankow. New Swiss Civil Code 

 comes into operation (see Times, Feb. 23). England beats 

 France in Assoc. football at Tufnell Park by 7 goals to i . 



2. Tang Shao-yi, the Government delegate at the 

 Chinese Peace Conference, resigns. 



3. Capt. Scott's Antarctic Expedition reaches a point 

 150 miles from the South Pole (see Apr. i). Ulster Union- 

 ist Council at annual meeting at Belfast resolve to repudiate 

 the authority of an Irish Parliament if set up under the 

 Home Rule Bill. Strike of Belgian miners begins at Mons. 

 M.C.C. cricket eleven win second Test Match at Mel- 

 bourne by 8 wickets. 



4. Paris motor-car bandits murder an old man and his 

 housekeeper at Thiasis. Earthquake shocks in California 

 and Nevada. 



5. Chinese Republican manifesto, signed by Sun Yat 

 Sen, issued at Shanghai. Unionist demonstration with 

 procession of 20,000 men at Omagh; Sir E. Carson speaks. 



6. Paris railway accident, 9 killed, 18 injured. Pres. 

 Taft signs proclamation admitting New Mexico as the 47th 

 state of the U. S. 



7. Italian warships sink seven Turkish gunboats off 

 Kunfuda. Collision between British batt)eships"Revenge" 

 and "Orion," in Portsmouth harbour. 



8. Formation of British Naval War Staff announced by 

 Mr. Winston Churchill. Evictions of small holders carried 

 out by the Salvation Army at Boxted, Essex. Democratic 

 NationaV Committee meets at Washington, and decides to 

 hold presidential convention at Baltimore, Md., on June 25. 

 W. J. Bryan's supporters are defeated on two roll-calls. 

 National U. S. Monetary Commission, created 1908, 

 presents to Congress a plan for reorganisation of banking 

 system, including establishment of a national reserve 

 association. 



9. French Parliamentary Session opens; M. Brisson 

 re-elected President of Chamber of Deputies. French 

 Senate Committee discusses Moroccan agreement; M. de 

 Selves, Foreign Minister, resigns owing to disclosure of 

 intrigue against him by M. Caillaux, the Premier. Equi- 

 table Life Assurance building in New York destroyed by 

 fire; 6 lives lost. British Miners' ballot on the question of 

 a strike begins. Death of "Gallinule," a famous stud- 

 horse, at the Curragh, Ireland. U. S. Supreme Court 

 decides that Federal Hours of Service law of 1907 takes 

 precedence 'over state laws for trainmen and applies to 

 trains carrying interstate shipments; also that Interstate 

 Commerce Commission had a right to allow higher freight 

 rates for shorter route under practically identical conditions. 



10. French Cabinet crisis; Caillaux ministry resigns. 

 King George and Queen Mary leave Bombay for England. 



xi. .M. Antoine Dubost re-elected President of the 

 French Senate. The Russian steamer "Russ" sinks in the 

 Black Sea with 172 persons on board. Rioting at Bahia, 

 Brazil; Government building bombarded. Spanish Council 

 of War and Marine sentences seven of the Cullera rioters 

 (see Sept. 18, 1911) to death. England beats Wales in 

 Assoc. football at Tufnell Park by 10 goals to p. 



12. In the first ballots of the German elections for the 

 Reichstag, the Socialists win 26 seats. Coal rises 35. and 

 35. 6d. a ton in London, according to quality. The Lord 

 Chamberlain issues a notice that music-halls may apply to 

 be licensed for the production of stage plays. M. Ruchon- 



net, French airman, killed at Vidame. The King of Spain 

 signs a decree pardoning 6 of the 7 condemned Cullera 

 rioters. The Manchu princes resolve to request the 

 Chinese Throne to retire to Jehol. 



13. M. Poincare', as Premier and Foreign Secretary, 

 forms new French ministry; M. Bourgeois Labour Mjnister, 

 M. Briand Minister of Justice, M. Millerand War Minister, 

 M. Delcasse Minister of Marine. Vedrines, French airman, 

 attains a speed record of 89 mites an hour near Pau. 



14. Spanish Cabinet resign against reprieve of Cullera 

 rioters. Anti-clerical demonstration in Lisbon. 



15. Senor Canalejas, Spanish Premier, resumes office. 

 "Oedipus Rex " in English produced under Herr Reinhardt's 

 direction at Covent Garden, London. Fighting in Asun- 

 cion, Paraguay, results after three days in the reinstatement 

 of President Rojas. U. S. Senate, by 58 votes to 8, decides 

 to discuss arbitration treaties in public sessions. U. S. 

 Supreme Court holds Employers' Liability Law of 1908 tc 

 be constitutional.- U. S. cruiser "Maryland" ordered to 

 Ecuador to protect American interests. 



16. Bomb attempt on Yuan shih-Kai, Chinese Premier, 

 at Peking. Swedish Riksdag opens; woman's suffrage bill 

 announced. U. S. Govt. warns Cuba that if the military 

 continue to interfere in politics intervention may again 

 be necessary. Death of Henry Labouchere, English poli- 

 txian and journalist, at Florence, aged 80. 



17. Fighting between Italians and Turks at Derna, 

 Tripoli. Italian warship seizes French mailboat "Car- 

 thage" in the Mediterranean. M.C.C. cricket eleven win 

 Third Test Match at Adelaide by 7 wickets. Pres. Taft in 

 a special message to U. S. Congress recommends changes 

 in administration estimated to save $11,000,000. Dr. 

 Harvey W. Wiley's conduct of pure food investigation 

 approved by a committee of the U. S. House of Representa- 

 tives. United Mine Workers' convention at Indianapolis, 

 Ind., favours government ownership of all industries and 

 votes to demand higher wages for all coal miners. Ter- 

 minal Storage Company Warehouse in New York City 

 burnt; damage about $1,000,000. 



18. Turkish parliament dissolved. British Miners' 

 ballot on a strike results in a vote of 445,801 for and 115,721 

 against. Wreck of "Wistow Hall" off Aberdeenshire; 52 

 drowned. Baron von Winogradoff, Russian naval officer, 

 and Wilhelm von Cerno, engineer, sentenced at Leipzig to 

 3 years' imprisonment for espionage. Fighting near 

 Tripoli between Arabs and Italians. M. Henri de Regnier 

 received as a member of the French Academy. Fighting at 

 Guayaquil in Ecuador between the troops of the Quito 

 Govt. and the Provisional Govt.; over 1,000 killed. 

 Edwin V. Morgan (b. 1865) of New York appointed U. S. 

 ambassador to Brazil as successor of minister Irving B. 

 Dudley. Pres. Taft pardons Charles W. Morse, sentenced 

 January 3, 1910 to 15 years' imprisonment for violation of 

 U. S. banking laws. John P. White re-elected pres. of 

 United Mine Workers of America. 



19. Lancashire cotton lock-out ends. Italian warship 

 off Sardinia seizes French mailboat "Manouba," carrying 

 Red Crescent officers and men to Tunis. Lieut. Boerner, 

 French airman, seriously injured at Senlis. 



20. Second ballots for German Reichstag begin. Sir 

 Edward Grey speaks at Sunderland on foreign affairs. 



21. Cardinal Bourne's reception at Westminster Cathe- 

 dral, London. Street rioting in Bukarest, as a demonstra- 

 tion against the Carp Ministry. 



22. Campaign against Home Rule opened in Lancashire 

 and Cheshire by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Sir E. Carson, 

 Mr. F. E. Smith, and Mr. Walter Long. M. Poincare, 

 French Premier, makes statement in Chamber as to gun- 

 boats seized by Italians.- Railway accident in Illinois; 

 Mr. J. T. Harahan, President of the Railroad Co., and 

 others killed. U. S. Supreme Court decides that railways 

 may not refuse to carry into prohibition territory intoxicat- 

 ing liquor shipped from another state. 



23. Frederick the Great bi-centenary celebrated in 

 Berlin. A party of British visitors, selected from both 

 Houses of Parliament, leave London for Russia, to return 

 the visit of the Russian Duma to London in Sept. 1911. 

 "Rue de la Paix," play by MM. Abel Hermaut and Marc 

 de Toledo, produced at the Vaudeville theatre, Paris. 

 Federal Court at Buffalo, N. Y., fines Standard Oil Compa- 

 ny of New York $55,000 for accepting railroad rebates. 

 U. S. Supreme Court upholds order of interstate Commerce 

 Commission (enjoined by Circuit Court in Minnesota), 

 forbidding increase in rates on lumber from Pacific Coast 

 to mid-western points. 



24. King George and Queen Mary arrive at Malta on 

 their return voyage to England. Carmaerthen Borough 

 by-election results in the return of Mr. Llewelyn Williams 

 (Liberal) by 1,281, showing a reduction of 951. Resigna- 



