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DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



of Lords on naval position in the Mediterranean. Labour 

 Party threaten to absent themselves from British House of 

 Commons if Liberals contest vacant seat at Hanley. 

 Colliery strike and riot at Cwymtillery, Monmouthshire. 

 Mr. George Foster, Canadian Minister for Trade and Com- 

 merce, speaks at the Constitutional Club, London. 

 "Titanic" relief fund reaches $307,500; the Public Trustee 

 and others deputed to draw up a scheme for dealing with 

 the crew. Portuguese Royalists reported to be concentrat- 

 ed near Tuy. Army appropriation bill without clause 

 affecting Major-General Wood again passed by U.S. House 

 of Representatives. Three Nationalists arrested in Cairo 

 for conspiring against Govt. Mr. Vaniman's transatlan- 

 tic airship "Akron" with crew of five explodes in mid-air 

 at Atlantic City and falls into the sea; all killed. 



3. First clause of Home Rule Bill carried in British House 

 of Commons by majority of 92. Board of Trade enquiry 

 in London into loss of "Titanic" concluded. Mr. Lloyd 

 George gives breakfast at n Downing St., to inaugurate 

 Radical land policy. Mine explosion near Oberhausen, 

 Germany; 16 miners killed and 6 injured. A. Piatt 

 Andrew, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Treasury, attacking 

 efficiency of Secretary MacVeagh, resigns. House Bill re- 

 vising chemical schedule of tariff rejected by U.S. Senate. 

 ^After adopting a platform Democratic National Con- 

 vention at Baltimore, Md. ( adjourns. 



4. Mr. Borden, Canadian Premier, and other Canadian 

 ministers arrive in London. Labour Party in British House 

 of Commons pass a resolution that each individual member 

 is at the disposal of the party to go to Hanley and Crewe 

 for election purposes. Bicentenary of Trinity College 

 Medical School celebrated in Dublin. German Emperor 

 and Tsar of Russia meet at Port Baltic. French shipping 

 strike spreads from seamen to dockers. Emperor Francis 

 Joseph 's reign reaches 63 years 7 months 2 days, and equals 

 Queen Victoria 's. Railway accident near Corning (N. Y.); 

 40 killed, 50 injured. Reply of National Health Insurance 

 Commissioners to British Medical Association published. 

 Accident on Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R.R., New 

 Gibson, N. Y.; 39 killed, 86 injured. Sir Francis May, 

 Governor of Hongkong, shot at by a Chinaman. General 

 Huerta reported to have captured rebel positions in Moroc- 

 co. Hadji Adil Bey, Minister of the Interior, returns to 

 Constantinople after tour through Ottoman Dominions. 

 Leonardo da Vinci celebration at the Sorbonne, Paris. 



5. Rhodes Memorial, erected on Table Mountain, dedi- 

 cated by Lord Grey. Dock Strike Committee in London 

 decide that strike shall continue. Rioting takes place 

 among dockers on strike at Havre. Capt. E. B. Loraine 

 and Staff Sergeant R. Wilson, British military airmen, 

 killed on Salisbury Plain. Funeral of Sir L. Alma Tadema 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Filers, an American 

 subject, sentenced at Leipzig to 4 years' penal servitude for 

 espionage. M. Mounet-Sully celebrates 4Oth anniversary 

 of debut at the Comedie Francaise. Holland admitted to 

 Berne Copyright Convention.- General Gourand in Moroc- 

 co defeats Pretender and his Sebala force. Dedication of 

 Champlain Memorial Lighthouse, at Crown Point, N. Y., 

 given by New York State and Vermont to U.S. Naval 

 appropriation bill, with amendment providing for building 

 two battleships, passed by U.S. Senate.- Railway accident 

 at Ligonier, Pennsylvania; 17 killed, 30 injured. 



6. King George's proposed visit to Royal Albert Dock 

 extension on July 17 cancelled owing to strike. King 

 George and Queen Mary attend Henley Regatta in the 

 State barge. -Official communique issued from Port Baltic 

 concerning the meeting of the German Emperor and the 

 Tsar. Govt. of Moroccodecide to open the port of Mehedia 

 to foreign trade on January i, 1913. Mr. Imre Schwaiger 

 of Delhi presents sacred peacock in steel to British Museum. 

 "Olympic" runs aground in New York harbour. 

 Prince Katsura starts from Tokyo for a European political 

 tour. Opening of the Stadium for the Olympic Games at 

 Stockholm by the King of Sweden. At Henley, the Rowing 

 Club de Paris win the Thames Challenge Cup; the Sydney 

 Rowing Club the Grand Challenge Cup; Eton the 

 Ladies Challenge Plate; New College, Oxford, the Stew- 

 ards' Challenge Cup; Queens College, Cambridge, the 

 Wyfold Challenge Cup; E. W. Powell (Vikings' Club) the 

 Diamond Sculls; Christ Church I, Oxford, the Visitor's 

 Challenge Cup, and Logan and Rought (Thames Rowing 

 Club) the Silver Goblets. 



7. German Imperial Chancellor visits St. Petersburg. 

 Dynamite explosion at Rancagua, Chile; 38 killed. 

 Portuguese Royalist attack on Valenca repulsed; Capt. 

 Coupeiro threatens Montalegre but retires. Call issued in 

 New York signed by sixty-three men from forty states, 

 summoning delegates to a national Progressive Convention 

 at Chicago, on August 6; ;.iM-jv. 



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8. London Dock Strike Committee ksue a statement 

 that they regret the cancellation of the King's visit but 

 express " both indebtedness and respect to his Majesty." 

 Second reading of Franchise Bill moved by Mr. Harcourt 

 in British House of Commons. Capt. Coufeiro bombards 

 Chaves, but is repulsed by troops sent by Portuguese Govt. 

 to oppose Royalist insurgents. International Miners' 

 Congress opens at Amsterdam. Camorra trial at Viterbo, 

 begun March 1911, ends in 8 of the accused being sentenced 

 to 30 years' imprisonment, and the rest to terms of from 4 

 to 20 years. Mr. Chamberlain celebrates his 76th birth- 

 day; shilling fund opened. In the New York seamen's 

 strike one striker killed and two policemen shot. King 

 George and Queen Mary begin an ''industrial" tour in 

 Yorkshire. Turkish Govt. declare a state of siege in the 

 Kruja district of Albania. Misurata, Tripoli, occupied by 

 Italian troops. Resignation of Mahmud Shevket Pasha, 

 Turkish War Minister. 



9. Members of both Houses of British Parliament inspect 

 the Fleet at Spithead. Explosion at the Cadeby coal mine 

 near Sheffield causes loss of 80 lives including three Govt. 

 inspectors of mines. King George and Queen Mary visit 

 the pit after the accident. Portuguese Govt. call out 

 reserves; Royalist troops under Capt. Couceiro retire into 

 Spanish territory. Second Lt. Scares, a naval officer, shot 

 in the street at Lisbon .French Chamber of Deputies 

 accept the principle of Govt. Electoral Reform Bill, involv- 

 ing proportional representation. M. Badel, French airman, 

 killed at Chalons. Schatz, a German factory official, 

 sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment at Saargemiinden 

 iorUse-majesti:. Havre dockers on strike resume work. 

 Hsiung Hsi-ling, Chinese minister of finance, presents note 

 to the bankers of the Six Powers. Mackenzie Ministry, 

 New Zealand, resign; Mr. Massey summoned. Djavid 

 Pasha appointed acting commandant of the Monastir Army 

 Corps, Albania. Charles D. Hilles, Secretary of Pres. Taft, 

 chosen chairman of Republican National Committee and 

 manager of Taft campaign for U.S. Presidency. 



10. Sir Edward Grey speaks in British House of Com- 

 mons on the Anglo-Russian Agreement and Foreign Affairs, 

 and is followed by Mr. Bonar Law. Mr. Borden speaks at 

 Royal Colonial Institute, London, on Canada's position 

 in world politics. Rioting in London by dockers on strike; 

 10 injured. Mr. Asquith receives deputation from Belfast 

 Chamber of Commerce on Home Rule. Cambridge cricket 

 eleven beats Oxford at Lords by 3 wickets. A. N. S. Jack- 



the Khedive and Lord Kitchener. Massey Ministry formed 

 in New Zealand. German punitive expedition sent to 

 Kaiser Wilhelm's Land, New Guinea, in consequence of 

 murder of Herr Petersen, the ornithologist. French 

 Chamber of Deputies pass Electoral Reform Bill by 339 to 

 217; violent demonstration by Opposition. U.S. War 

 Department sends rifles and ammunition to protect Ameri- 

 cans at Hermosillo, Mexico. 



1 1 . The Port of London employers pass resolution express- 

 ing confidence in Lord Devonport as chairman and affirm- 

 ing their decision to agree to no conditions till the men re- 

 turn to work. Further rioting at London docks. Great 

 Britain protests before U.S. Senate against provision in 

 Panama Canal bill which permits American ships free use 

 of canal (see May 23 and July 13). U.S. House of Repre- 

 sentatives, acting on report of Judiciary Committee, votes 

 by 222 to i to impeach Judge Archbald of U.S. Commerce 

 Court. Sir W. Plender's Report on the renumeration of 

 doctors in certain selected areas issued in London. Rioting 

 at Dunkirk in connection with French dockers' strike. 

 Celebration of millenary of Oxford City at Oxford. Arrest 

 of Governor of Valenca in connection with Royalist rising. 

 Greek and Armenian patriarchs and Bulgarian Exarch 

 combine to protest against enrollment of Christian subjects 

 up to the age of 45 in Turkish army. P. & O. liner " Persia " 

 runs aground near Marseilles. 



12. Franchise Bill read a second time in British House 

 of Commons by 290 to 218, after speeches by Mr. Balfour, 

 Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law. Mr. F. E. Smith speaks 

 at Belfast in the Boyne celebrations, and Capt. Craig, M.P. 

 announces that an Ulster Day will be inaugurated. Mr. 

 Lloyd George and the Governor of the Bank of England 

 speak at the Mansion House on national finance and the 

 fall in consols. Conference between the Govt. and Lord 

 Devonport on the London dock strike. Sale of Raeburns 

 at Christie's for prices of from 3,900 to 6,800 guineas, and 

 of a Rembrandt for 5,800 guineas. England wins Elcho 

 Shield at Bisley. Saskatchewan provincial elections result 

 in an increased majority for the Liberals. Seizure of arms 

 and ammunition at.Belas by Portuguese Republican troops. 



