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DIARY OF- EVENTS 1912 



JAN. 25-FEB. 17 



tion of Mr. Percival Hughes, Chief Conservative Agent, 

 London. Measure requiring U. S. Pres. to publish indorse- 

 ments of candidates for federal judiciary is passed by the 

 U. S. House of Representatives 148 to 82. 



25. French Senate Committee adopt the Morocco 

 agreement. British visitors arrive in St. Petersburg. 

 Cyrus E. Wood (b. 1861), of Pa., appointed U. S. minister 

 to Portugal. 



26. Mr. Bonar Law addresses London Unionists in the 

 Albert Hall. "Manouba" incident settled (see Jan. 19). 

 Khartum Cathedral consecrated by Bishop of London. 



27. Announcement in the Press that Mr. Pierpont Mor- 

 gan's loan collection will be withdrawn from the Victoria 

 & Albert Museum. London, so as to avoid death duties. 

 "The Coronation, "a play by Laurence Housman, refused 

 a licence by the Lord Chamberlain. 



28. Turkish attack on Aiu-Zaca (Tripoli) repuked. 

 U. S. Secretary of War recommends concentration of troops 

 at eight strategic points, and closing of many army posts. 



29. Duke of Fife dies in Egypt, aged 62. Mr. Morgan 

 Shuster, ex-financial adviser in Persia, is entertained at a 

 banquet in London. German National Defence League 

 constituted in Berlin. General strike at Lisbon. Glasgow 

 and Greenock dock strike. U. S. House of Representatives 

 passes (210 to 109) bill reducing duties on steel and iron. 



30. Charity Commissioners' Enquiry opened at Col- 

 chester into the Salvation Army's evictions of tenants 

 from small holdings at Boxted, Essex. Mr. Roosevelt 

 interviewed by the Chicago Evening Post; he stated that 

 he did not want, and would not seek, but would accept the 

 Presidency. The Bishop of Winchester makes a speech on 

 Anglo-German relations at his diocesan Conference, Win- 

 chester. King George and Queen Mary arrive at Gibraltar 

 on their return voyage to England. Copyright treaty 

 signed at Budapest between the United States and Hun- 

 gary. 



3 1 . British doctors decline to attend conference convened 

 in London by the Insurance Commissioners and the Joint 

 Committee. Trial of Mr. Bertrand Stewart for espionage 

 before German Supreme Court at Leipzig. Lisbon strike 

 ended by the action of the Portuguese Government. 

 Mr. F. E. Smith speaks at New Cross on the Unionist 

 programme. Fighting in Mexico between Zapatistas and 

 Federal troops. Fight between gendarmes and motor-car 

 bandits at Les Autrais goods station near Etampes, France; 

 one gendarme and one bandit killed.- Bill creating Chil- 

 dren's Bureau in U. S. Department of Commerce and 

 Labour passes U. S. Senate. Violent earthquake shock 

 felt at Valdez. Alaska. Rev. Austin Dowling of Providence. 

 R. I., is named bishop of new Roman Catholic diocese of 

 Des Moines, Iowa. 



February: 



1. Miners' strike notices issued in South Wales to leave 

 work on February 29, unless minimum wage demand is 

 conceded. Presbyterian Convention in Belfast protests 

 against Home Rule. Paris taxi-cab strike riot. Board of 

 Trade Report issued on first two years' work of Labour 

 Exchanges in Great Britain. French War Minister abol- 

 ishes the system of secret reports. Mrs. Caroline W. Neu- 

 stadter's will bequeathes $1,000,000 for establishing model 

 homes near New York City. 



2. British submarine A 3, with 4 officers and 10 men, 

 sunk during manoeuvres off the Isle of Wight. East 

 Edinburgh by-election results in the return of Mt. J. M. 

 Hogge (Liberal). Senator La Follette injures his prospects 

 as presidential candidate by an attack on newspapers in a 

 speech at Philadelphia. Strike at Tilbury Docks, London. 

 "L'Assaut,"a play by Bernstein, produced at the Gymnase 

 Theatre, Paris. Sofia ffites in honour of the coming of age 

 of Prince Boris, Crown Prince of Bulgaria, begin. Pres. 

 Taft in special message to U. S. Congress recommends 

 international commission on high cost of living and a 

 federal commits on on industrial relations. Pension 

 appropriation bill, carrying Sis 2. 000,000, passed by U. S. 

 House of Representatives. Second Philippine legislature 

 ends, with important measures pending; Governor-General 

 Forbes calls extra session. Convention of United Mine 

 Workers at Indianapolis, Ind., adjourns after being in 

 session since January 16. 



,V Mr. Bertrand Stewart sentenced at Leipzig to tY* 

 years' detention in a fortress for espionage. Mr. Lloyd 

 George speaks on finance at the City Liberal Club. 

 Telegram published from the Princes and People of India 

 to the British nation expressing gratitude for the Royal 

 visit. Wales beats Scotland in Rugby football at Swansea 

 by 1 1 points to 6. 



4. King George and Queen Mary arrive at Spithead. 

 Three factories burnt in Philadelphia, P.; loss about 

 $i ,000,000. 



5. King George and Queen Mary arrive ia London. 

 Announcement of donation of 100,000 for endowment of 

 home science at King's College, London. Servian Cabinet 

 resign. Bavarian Cabinet resign. 



6. Nanking Assembly accepts Yuan Shih-kai's proposals 

 for Chinese Constitutional reform. King George and 

 Queen Mary attend a Thanksgiving Service for their safe 

 return at St. Paul's Cathedral, London. French naval 

 programme, involving expenditure of 60,000,000 in 8 

 years, disclosed in debate in Chamber of Deputies. 



_ 7. Coal conference of employers' and miners' representa- 

 tives meets in London and fails to agree. German Reichs- 

 tag opens. Dickens centenary celebration held. Lord 

 Haldane goes on a political mission to Germany. 100,000 

 raised for Bedford College for Women, London. U. S. 

 Dept. of State reaffirms policy for the ''open door" in 

 China. U. S. marines landed at Puerto Cortes, Honduras, 

 to protect American interests. Extra session of the Philip- 

 pine legislature, called on Feb. 2, ends without passing 

 appropriation bills. 



8. Mr. Winston Churchill speaks on Home Rule at 

 Belfast. 



9. Mr. Winston Churchill speaks on the Navy at Glas- 

 gow. Heinrich Grosse, a German, sentenced at Winchester 

 to 3 years' penal servitude for espionage. Lord Spencer 

 resigns the office of Lord Chamberlain. M. Ribot speaks 

 in the French Senate on the Franco-German Morocco 

 treaty. Glasgow dock strike riot. Death of Pere Hya- 

 cinthe (Charles Loyspn), in Paris, aged 84. Amendment 

 to Army appropriation bill, by which cavalry force is 

 reduced from 15 regiments to 10, adopted by U. S. House 

 of Representatives. 



10. French Senate ratifies Morocco Agreement bill. 

 E. T. Hooley sentenced in London to a years imprisonment 

 for false pretences; Glasgow dock strike ends. Death of 

 Lord Lister at Walmer, aged 84. Fighting at Derna in 

 Tripoli. England beats Ireland in Association football at 

 Dublin by 6 goals to I. 



12. Sir Edward Grey created K.G. The Manchu 

 dynasty abdicates in China and a Provisional Republic is 

 established. Mr. Lloyd George speaks on the Insurance 

 Act in the London Opera House.- In a speech at Chicago, 

 III., Mr. Woodrow Wiison begins campaign for Democratic 

 Presidential nomination. 



13. Yuan Shih-kai empowered as organiser of the 

 Chinese Republic. M.C.C. cricket eleven win the Fourth 

 Test Match at Melbourne. Pres. Taft's Lincoln Day 

 speech at New York outlines his future policy. Trial of 

 Miss Malecka on a charge of conspiracy begins at Warsaw. 



14. British Parliament opens. Arizona admitted to 

 American state-hood. Lord Sandhurst appointed Lord 

 Chamberlain. Lord Carrington resigns the office of Lord 

 Privy Seal and is created Marquess of Lincolnshire. Lord 

 Crewe succeeds Lord Carrington as Lord Privy Seal while 

 retaining the India Secretaryship. Lord Pentland resigns 

 the office of Secretary for Scotland and is succeeded by 

 Mr. T. McKinnon Wood. Sale of old_ silver, including 

 Edward VI apostle spoons, at Christie's. Parasite of 

 Dum-dum or black fever discovered by Captain W. S. 

 Patton, I.M.S., asst. Director of^the King Institute of 

 Preventive Medicine, Madras. Sir Walter Egerton ap- 

 pointed Governor of British Guiana. 



i.v Labour Amendment to the Address in British 

 parliament in favour of a minimum wage rejected. London 

 and North Western Railway appoint an official as " Griev- 

 ance hearer." German Chancellor speaks in the Reichstag 

 on Lord Haldane's visit. Myron T. Herrick (b. 1854) of 

 Ohio appointed U. S. ambassador to France as successor 

 of Robert Bacon, resigned January 2. Two bank messen- 

 gers are held up in a taxicab at noon in financial district, 

 New York City, and robbed of $12.000. Railroad officials 

 and steel-rail makers confer at New York City as to safer 

 rails. Comer-stone laid of National " Maine " Monument 

 in Central Park, N. Y., to commemorate the U.S.S. 

 "Maine" destroyed in Havana harbour before outbreak 

 of Spanish- American War in 1808. 



io. German Chancellor speaks in the Reichstag on the 

 results of the General Election. Norwegian Cabinet re- 

 signs. Mr. Hobhousc speaks against Woman Suffrage at 

 Bristol. Sir Bingham Sweet-Escott appointed Governor 

 of the Fiji Islands. U. S. House of Representatives passes 

 Army appropriation bill, with term of enlistment increased 

 from 3 to s years and reduction of number of cavalry regi- 

 ments from 15 to io. Major-General Frederick C. Ains- 

 worth. Adjutant-General (b. 1852) of the U. S. army, is 

 retired from active service upon his own application. 



17. Death of Count Aehrenthal, Austro-Hungarian 

 Foreign Minister, aged 57.- -Plot aeainst Count Terauchi ; 

 the Japanese Governor-General, discovered in Korea. 



