JNE. 8-19 



DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



(Mass.) car-workers results in rioting. Explosion of pow- 

 der magazine at Wellersdorf, near Wiener-Neustadt, kills 

 14 and injures 100 persons. Mr. A. Lee's "White Slave 

 Traffic" Bill in British House of Commons adopted by the 

 Govt. U.S. Supreme Court holds that railways cannot 

 carry railway supplies (coal especially) at rates cheaper 

 than those charged to public. U.S. Republican National 

 Committee in Chicago decides the first 24 contests that 

 come before it in favour of the delegates for Taft. The 

 "Ohio" and " Minnesota, " U.S. battleships, arrive at Guan- 

 tanamo, Cuba. Race for "The Oaks" at Epsom won by 

 Mr. J. Pratt 's "Mirska." 



8. French submarine "Vend6miaire" sunk near Cher- 

 bourg by battleship "St. Louis;" 25 drowned. Ban of 

 Croatia, M. de Cuvaj, shot at by L. Jakitch, a law student 

 at Agram; M.deHervoitch, his companion, and a gendarme 

 mortally hurt (see Aug. 12). Italians attack Zanzur, 

 Tripoli, and inflict heavy losses on Turks. King Nicholas 

 of Montenegro visits the Emperor of Austria at Vienna. 

 King George reviews the National Reserve Troops in Hyde 

 Park, London. Aerial "Derby" atHendon, England, won 

 by F. Hamel. Visseur, Belgian airman, killed whilst flying 

 as a passenger at Rheims. Forty-eight Taft delegates are 

 seated by Republican National Convention. Memorial 

 to Christopher Columbus unveiled at Washington, D.C. 



o. Hospital Sunday in London; King George and Queen 

 Mary attend St. Paul's Cathedral. Kimmerling, French 

 airman, with a passenger, Tounet, killed at Mourmelon-le- 

 Grand. Aerial race, Berlin to Vienna, begins. Visiting 

 German battleship squadron anchors in Hudson river, N. Y. 



10. Lord Loreburn resigns Lord Chancellorship of Great 

 Britain and is succeeded by Lord Haldane. British House 

 of Commons passes the second reading of the White Slave 

 Traffic Bill. London Transport Workers' negotiations 

 with employers break down, and a national strike is declared. 

 Miss Malecka is pardoned by the Tsar, but prohibited 

 from visiting Russia for life. German Navy League holds 

 1 2th annual meeting and is addressed by Admiral von 

 Koester on need for increased activity and inadequacy of 

 Navy Law. Renewed disorder in Hungarian parliament. 

 Berlin-Vienna aerial race won by H. Hirth, German air- 

 man. General strike of seamen at Havre delays, sailing of 

 liner "La France." Russian troops enter Kashgar to 

 maintain order amongst revolutionary Chinese. Confer- 

 ence report on Army appropriation bill, legislating General 

 Wood out of office as Chief of Staff, is adopted by U.S. 

 Senate. U.S. Supreme Court adjourns. 



1 1 . Transport Workers ' order for national strike obeyed 

 at Manchester, Bristol, Plymouth, Southampton, and 

 Swansea. Sir Rufus Isaacs, K.C., Attorney General, be- 

 comes a member of the British Cabinet. Mr. Horatio 



ish Empire opened in London by Mr. Asquith. The Regent 

 of Persia leaves Teheran for Europe. Committee of 

 Hungarian House of Magnates adopt Army Bill by 29 

 votes to 14. Havre Seamen's strike spreads to Calais and 

 Brest. U.S. Senate votes against an appropriation for 

 Commerce Court. U.S. District Court at Toledo fines 

 Hocking Valley Ry. Co. $42,000 and Sunday Creek Coal 

 Co. $20,000 for rebating. Nearly go miles of levees in 

 Louisiana break. Lieut. L. W. Hazelhurst, Jr., U.S.A., 

 and Al Welsh, a professional aviator, killed at army avia- 

 tion field, College Park, Md. 



12. Col. J. E. B. Seely becomes Secretary of State for 

 War in the British Govt. Mr. Austin Chamberlain moves 

 a vote of censure in British House of Commons on the 

 Home Secretary (Mr. McKenna) for refusing police protec- 

 tion to a party of free labourers at Purfleet. It is rejected 

 by 337 votes to 260. Demonstration of 13,000 men in the 

 Albert Hall and Hyde Park against Welsh Church Bill; 

 speeches by Mr. Bonar Law and the Archbishops of York 

 and Canterbury. Bunyan's copy of Foxe's "Book of 

 Martyrs" sold to Mr. Pierpont Morgan for 2,000. U.S. 

 Senate adopts an amendment to Legislative, Executive 

 and Judicial appropriation bill, repealing law creating 

 Commerce Court. Republican National Committee de- 

 cides contests from Arizona, California, Louisiana, Michi- 

 gan and Mississippi in favour of Taft delegates. Roosevelt 

 announces that his platform will favour woman's suffrage. 

 Count Tisza has special audience with the Emperor 

 Francis Joseph, who praises his conduct as Pres. of the 

 Chamber. England defeats S. Africa in cricket at Lord's, 



insurance Act until 1013 negatived without divisions. 



13. Arab attack on Lebda, Tripoli, repulsed with heavy 

 loss. Mr. Balfour speaks on Home Rule at Preston. 



Eight Suffragist women arrested in Dublin on a charge of 

 window breaking. Committee of Inquiry at Cherbourg in- 

 to loss of submarine " Vendemiaire " acquits capt. of battle- 

 ship "St. Louis." Khost valley rebellion in Afghanistan 

 reported to be subsiding. Kieff newspapers publish result 

 of an inquiry disproving charge of ritual murder against 

 Jews. Miss Malecka arrives m London after her release 

 from Russian prison. U.S. House of Representatives votes 

 $25,000 appropriation for President 's travelling expenses. 

 Mounts Katmai, Redoubt and Iliamna, Alaska, in eruption. 

 Strike riots in Perth Amboy, N. J., at American Smelting 

 and Refining Co.'s works. Decree filed in U.S. Circuit 

 Court, at Wilmington, Del., ordering dissolution of E.I. 

 DuPont de Nemours Powder Co. before December. Con- 

 ference report on Army appropriation bill accepted by U.S. 

 House of Representatives. Visiting German battleship 

 squadron leaves N. Y. 13 contests decided in favour of 

 Roosevelt delegates by Republican National Committee. 



14. King George 's birthday celebrated officially through- 

 out British Empire. Birthday honours include 4 peerages, 

 9 baronetcies, and 25 knighthoods. Mr. Walter Long and 

 Sir Edward Carson address national Home Rule protest 

 meeting at the Albert Hall, London. Memorial presented 

 to Home Secretary signed by over 100 members of British 

 House of Commons asking for ist division treatment for 

 saffragist prisoners. French force leaves Fez for Sefru. 

 Chinese troops mutiny at Tsinanfu. Dr. Robert Bell 

 awarded 2,000 damages in London for libel by Dr. Bash- 

 ford in the course of criticisms on his cancer treatment 

 published in British Medical Journal. Republican Nation- 

 al Committee decides contests in Okalahoma and Tennessee 

 in favour of Taft delegates. 



15. Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Chicago, to take per- 

 sonal leadership of his adherents who are trying to nomi- 

 nate him for the Presidency in Republican National Con- 

 vention. Republican National Committee seats 26 Taft 

 delegates and 4 Roosevelt delegates from Texas, but decides 

 all Virginia and Washington contests for Taft delegates. 

 Sloane Laboratory (physics) of Yale University is dedicated. 

 Hungarian House of Magnates adopts Army Bill by 174 

 to 33. New Portuguese Ministry formed under Dr. Duarte 

 Leite. Fighting at Bu Sceifa, near Misurata, Tripoli, over 

 disembarcation of an Italian Expeditionary Corpsr 50 Arabs 

 killed; 2 Italians killed, 9 wounded. 



16. French Aerial "Derby" begins. Railway accident 

 at Malmstatt, Sweden; 20 killed (i Englishman), I4injured. 



17. Franchise and Registration Bill introduced into 

 British House of Commons by Mr. J. A. Pease. Mr. 

 McKenna, British Home Secretary, announces that the 

 Anarchist Malatesta will not be expelled after imprison- 

 ment. Tang-Shao-yi, Chinese Premier, announces his 

 intention to resign. New Cretan Govt. formed. Pres. 

 Taft vetoes Army appropriation bill, passed by U.S. Con- 

 gress. American Beef Trust, National Packing Company, 

 notifies U.S. Dept. of Justice that it will endeavour to dis- 

 solve by August i (see July 20). Supreme Court of Canada 

 declare Federal Parliament incompetent to pass a general 

 marriage law for the Dominion, and decide that mixed 

 marriages solemnised by a Protestant clergyman are valid. 

 French Aerial "Derby" won by French airman, Garros. 



18. Republican National Convention for selection of 

 Presidential candidate opens at Chicago. U.S. Interstate 

 Commerce Commission begins an inquiry into transporta- 

 tion of anthracite coal. Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, 

 the new German Ambassador, arrives in London/ French 

 airship " Conte " with crew of six rose to record height of 

 9.922 ft. in Paris. Mrs. Julia Clark, American aviator, 

 killed at Springfield, 111. Retirement of Sir Sidney Colvin, 

 keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London. 

 Judgment delivered by the Privy Council in London in the 

 case of L. O. Clarke, Pres. Magistrate of Mymensingh, 

 India, who appealed against decree of the Hig'h Court of 

 Bengal (Jan. 12, 1909), and judgment of Mr. Justice 

 Fletcher in the lower court (June 19, 1908). condemning 



him in damages for exceeding his powers of search at Jamal- 

 par April 1907. The appeal was allowed and the plaintiff 

 given the costs of both the previous trials. 



19. Pennsylvania (Roosevelt) delegation bolts Republi- 

 can National Convention and Roosevelt members leave 

 Credential Committee. Gov. Hadley's motion to bar 

 from voting on contests 72 contesting delegates is defeated 

 569 to 477. Two French military airmen. Capt. Dubois 

 and Lieut. Peignan. killed near Douai by collision of their 

 aeroplanes. Montenegrin Cabinet resign and a new Minis- 

 try is formed under Gen. Martinovitch. British House of 

 Commons, voting in Committee on Mr. Agar Robartes' 

 Amendment to Clause i of the Home Rule Bill, decides 

 by majority of 69 against excluding four counties in the 

 province of Ulster from the operation of the Bill. Rebel 



