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DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



reform by proportional representation. Meeting of Tsar 

 of Russia and King of Sweden at Pitkapaasi Bay, Finland. 

 Sundry Civil appropriation bill and measure creating 

 single-chambered legislature of 16 members for Alaska 

 passed by U.S. Senate. Prof. Herschell Parker and Bel- 

 more Browne announce from Tolvina, Alaska, that they 

 ascended to within 300 feet of summit of Mt. McKinley. 



25. Debate in British House of Commons on Imperial 

 Defence Committee. M. Poincare replies to M. Clemen- 

 ceau 's attack on the Government proposal for proportional 

 representation. Serious floods in Pennsylvania, Ohio and 

 West Virginia. General Ameglio, commanding Italian 

 troops at Rhodes, reported to have visited Kalymnos and to 

 have stated that the Aegean islands occupied by Italy 

 would never be restored to Turkey. Greek Govt. order 

 an armoured cruiser and 8 torpedo boats to be built at the 

 Vulkan works, Germany. Senator LaFollette's wool tariff 

 bill passed by U'.S. Senate (see April I and August 9). U.S. 

 marines ordered home from Guantanamo, Cuba. 



26. By-ejection at Crewe results in Unionist victory for 

 Mr. E. Craig by majority of 966. Meeting at Calcutta to 

 express discontent with Privy Council's judgment in 

 Mymensingh Case (see June 18). Officers of the Turkish 

 Army, claiming to. represent Adrianople Army Corps, de- 

 mand resignation of new Cabinet and substitution of a 

 Young Liberal Ministry. Fire at a_champagne factory at 

 Epernay, France; 5 persons missing. Lowther Lodge, 

 Knightsbridge, London, sold to the Royal Geographical 

 Society for 100,000. Naval wing of the British Royal 

 Flying Corps sanctioned by an Order in Council. Liver- 

 pool meeting res_olves to form a Society to advocate a State 

 medical service in Great Britain. Chinese Advisory Coun- 

 cil approve names of 5 new ministers. Govt. majority in 

 B ritish House of Commons falls to 3 on a motion respecting 

 business. Dr. Ethel Smyth, charged with conspiracy, dis- 

 charged owing to insufficient evidence (see July 23). Due 

 de Lorge killed in lift accident in London. Strike of 2,000 

 workmen on ; G rand Trunk railway, near Fort George, B.C. 

 Excise Tax bill passed by U.S. Senate, 37 to 18, with 

 amendments creating permanent tariff commission and 

 repealing Canadian reciprocity act. 



27. London Transport Workers' Strike Committee rec- 

 ommend port workers to resume work at once. Mr. 

 Bonar Law, speaking at Blenheim, says it is the duty of the 

 Unionist party to support Ulster in resisting the Home Rule 

 Bill. Messrs. Harland & Wolf, Belfast, ship-builders, 

 announce gradual shutting down of their works owing to 

 trouble and intimidation amongst their employees. Last 

 section of Bagdad railway, from El Helif to Bagdad, be- 

 gun. Extension of Tube railway from the Bank of Liver- 

 pool St., London, opened. Visit of Mr. Borden and 

 Canadian ministers to Paris. Three miniatures by Mrs. 

 Frank Eastman stolen from Royal Academy, London. 

 Turkish Cabinet issue manifesto to population of Northern 

 Albania stating that armed force will not be Used against 

 them, and that a Parliamentary Commission will enquire 

 into their grievances. Joseph Fischer, German airman, 

 with a passenger (Kugler) killed near Munich. Capt. Dom 

 Joao de 'Almeida, Portuguese royalist, Sentenced at Lisbon 

 to 6 years' imprisonment followed by 10 years' deportation 

 to a Portuguese Colony. Substitute for House Free : Sugar 

 bill, proposed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, fixing duty 

 at 1.6 cents a pound, passed by U.S. Senate. 



28; -Mass meeting of London port workers resolves to 

 continue strike in defiance of leaders. Turkish Parliamen- 

 tary Commission of Enquiry arrives in Prishtina, Albania. 

 Shuja-ed-Dowleh, Acting Governor of Tabriz, agitates 

 against Persian Govt., who propose to supersede him. 



29. London Transport Workers' Strike Committee 

 decide to adhere to their rec8mmendation that the men 

 should return to work. Death of Mutsuhito, Emperor of 

 Japan, aged 59. Mr. Borden and Canadian Ministers 

 received by President of French Republic. Royal Com- 

 mission appointed under presidency of Lord Fisher to 

 consider storage and supply of liquid fuel to British Navy. 

 Spanish Govt. refuse to expel Portuguese royalists from 

 Spain. Attempted assassination of Hassam Bey, leader 

 of Albanian insurgents, at Uskub, Albania. Judgment 

 delivered by Privy Council in the Canadian mixed marri- 

 ages (Ne Temere) case. Supreme Court of Canada's 

 decision that the_ provincial legislatures have jurisdiction 

 in such matters is upheld-. Collapse of landing stage at 

 Binz, in Riigen, Baltic Sea; 16 persons drowned. Mr. E. H. 

 Tennyson d'Eyncourt appointed Director of Naval Con- 

 struction to British Admiralty in place of Sir Philip Watts, 

 who is retained as adviser. Judge Archbald makes formal 

 answer in U.S. Senate to charges against him (see July n). 

 Govt. suits discontinued on payment of $250,060 by 

 sugar companies into U.S. treasury for customs frauds in 



Philadelphia. First National Conference of American 

 newspaper and magazine writers assembles at Madison, 

 Wise. Balloon "Uncle Sam," under Capt. H. E. Honey- 

 well, wins international elimination trial, sailing from Kan- 

 sas City, Mo., to Manassas, Va., 925 miles. Lieut. Charles 

 Becker of the New York police arrested on charge of having 

 instigated murder of Herman Rosenthal (see July 16). 



30. Yoshihito Harunomiya, Crown Prince of Japan, pro- 

 claimed Emperor. London Court of Inquiry on the loss 

 of the "Titanic " present their Report through Lord Mersey. 

 Turkish Chamber carry vote of confidence in the Cabinet 

 by 113 votes to 95. Royal Commission appointed to 

 examine into Public Services in India: Lord Islington 

 (Chairman), Earl of Ronaldshay, Sir Murray Hammkk, 

 Sir Theodore Morison, Sir Valentine Chirol, Frank George 

 Sly, James Ramsay Macdonald, Herbert A. L. Fisher, 

 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Walter Culley Madge, Abdur 

 Rahim. Many London transport workers resume work. 

 Rioting in Toronto in strike of freight handlers at Port 

 Arthur docks. Canadian Federal Govt. order enquiry 

 into "Empress of Britain's" collision with "Helvetia." 



31. Serious rioting, with use of revolvers, at London 

 docks; over 20 injured. Prince of Wales terminates his 

 stay in France. Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, late Prime 

 Minister of New Zealand, appointed High Commissioner. 

 British Prime Minister and First Lord of the Admiralty 

 invited to visit Canada. Turkish Government lay before 

 Chamber their proposed modifications of the Constitution. 

 Mr. Asquith in House of Commons criticises Mr. Bonar 

 Law's speech at Blenheim (see July 27) on Ulster's right 

 to resist Home Rule. Epidemic of typhoid fever reported 

 from Ottawa. Albanian delegates at Prishtina demand 

 dissolution of Turkish Chamber. 



August:- 



1. British Govt. announce decision to withdraw from 

 Brussels Sugar Convention on September i, 1913. End 

 oj Belfast shipyard trouble at Messrs. Harland & Wolff's. 

 Dr. G. E. Morrison, formerly Times correspondent at 

 Peking, appointed Political Adviser to President of Chinese 

 Republic. Mr. Taft accepts Republican nomination for 

 Presidency. Sale of Queen Maria Pia's jewels, pledged 

 with Bank of Portugal. Railway accident at Rio de 

 Janeiro; 10 killed, 50 injured. Goodwood Cup won by Mr. 

 Buchanan's " Tullibardine. " Throwing of a bomb in 

 Kotchana, Bulgaria, is followed by a riot in which nearly 

 200 Bulgarians are killed or wounded by Turkish soldiers. 



2. Fighting at Lhasa; Tibetans repulsed by Chinese. 

 The inhabitants of Nikaria, Aegean Sea, depose the Turkish 

 authorities and declare independence. Three miniatures 

 stolen from Royal Academy, London, returned by post 

 anonymously.- End of French seamen 's strike at Havre. 

 U.S. Senate, by vote of 54 to 4, passes Lodge resolution 

 extending Monroe Doctrine to foreign corporations holding 

 territory on American continents. Stanley committee for 

 investigating U.S. Steel Corporation reports to Congress 

 suggesting legislation to control combinations. 



3. Montenegrins attack Turkish blockhouse on Turco- 

 Montenegrin frontier; 50 Turks killed, 12 Montenegrins 

 killed and 15 wounded. Mr. Lindsay Campbell. Australian 

 airman, killed at Byfleet, England. U.S. Senate withdraws 

 Canadian reciprocity "rider" of Steel bill. 



4. Turkish Senate accept Govt.'s modification of 

 Constitution, empowering Sultan to dissolve Parliament. 

 Five Englishmen arrested near Kiel, Germany, for espion- 

 age. Eruption of Mt. Etna, Sicily. Nine boy scoots 

 drowned off Kent coast by capsizing of boat. U.S. marines 

 landed in Nicaragua, to protect American interests. 



5. M. Poincare, French Premier, leaves Dunkirk for 

 Russia on political mission. Mr. Roosevelt 's Third Party 

 (Progressive) Convention opens at Chicago. Turkish 

 Parliament dissolved by Iradeh; Chamber meets and passes 

 vote of no confidence in Government. British Home Office 

 Enquiry into Cadeby Colliery explosion opens at Don- 

 caster. British War Office appoint committee under the 

 chairmanship of Sir Henry Norman to enquire into wireless 

 telegraphy developments. Italians occupy Zuara, Tripoli. 

 British Admiralty issue regulations as to commissions 

 to be offered to men in the navy who have qualified as 

 warrant officers. Further frontier fighting between Turks 

 and Montenegrins. 



6. Mr. Roosevelt declares his programme of social re- 

 form (including general minimum wage) at Chicago Con- 

 vention. Pres. Taft sends message to Congress asking for 

 immediate legislation to establish authority in Panama 

 Canal zone, and to fix maximum tolls. Rolla Wells (b. 

 1856), formerly mayor of St. Louis, made treasurer of U.S. 

 Democratic National Committee. Talaat Bey and Djavid 

 Bey, leaders of Committee of Union and Progress, leave 

 Constantinople for Salonika. Earl of Liverpool appointed 



