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DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



SEPT. 7-22 



his return from England. German Emperor entertained 

 at Bern by Swiss President. M. Garros, French airman, 

 reaches record height of 16,405 ft. at Houlgate, near Trou- 

 ville, France. Russian Govt. presents note to China con- 

 tinuing Treaty of St. Petersburg for ten years, except with 

 regard to the free exchange of products in the 50 verst zone 

 on each side pi the frontier of Hi, which is to expire in 1913. 

 South African mail contract with Great Britain signed 

 at Cape Town. 



7. Interview at Buchlau between Heir von Bethmann- 

 Hoilweg and Count Berchtold concerning Austrian Balkan 

 proposals. Centenary of Battle of Borodino celebrated at 

 Moscow in presence of Tsar. British Admiralty issue fresh 

 regulations for the control and discipline of the Navy. 

 U.S. golf championship won by Mr. Jerome Travers. 

 Col. Mangin 's French force enters Marakesh and rescues 9 

 French prisoners; El Hiba escapes. 



8._ M. Klemm appointed to succeed M. Poklewski- 

 Koziell as Russian Minister in Persia. Four spectators 

 killed by aeroplane at Gray, Haute Saone, France. Mass 

 meeting in Athens to protect against condition of Greek 

 population in Turkey. Fighting between Turks, and 

 Bulgarians on Rumelian frontier, near Karatepe. 



9. Resignation of M. Trifkovitch and Servian Cabinet. 

 German Army Manoeuvres begin in Saxony. Motor 

 racing accident in New York, 6 persons killed, 20 injured. 

 New comet discovered by Mr. W. F. Gale, Australian 

 astronomer. Italian force ambushed near Zanzur, Tripoli. 

 Prof. Vilhjalmar Stefansson returns to Seattle, after four 

 years' exploration in Arctic. Democrats elect Jos. T. 

 Robinson governor of Arkansas, U.S. William T. Haines 

 (Rep) elected governor of Maine, U.S. International 

 aviation cup won by Jules Vedrines at Chicago, flying 125 

 m. at rate of 1Q$ 1 A m. an hour. 



10. International Congress of Association for Labour 

 Legislation opens in Zurich. Mid-Lothian by-election 

 results in unionist victory for Major Hope, majority 32. 

 French Army Manoeuvres begin in Tours district of western 

 France. Lt. Hotchkiss and Lt. C. Bettington, British 

 military airmen, killed near Oxford. Continuation Com- 

 mittee of Presbyterian Convention in Belfast issue mani- 

 festo protesting against Home Rule Bill. The Times, 

 London, issues its 40,oooth number with special supple- 

 ment on History of the Press. Mr. Borden speaks at 

 Ottawa on Imperial Defence. Papal Legate arrives in 

 Vienna to attend Eucharistic Congress. Bomb explosion 

 at Doiran fair, near Salonika, 30 killed, 60 injured. French 

 Govt. announce that in future practically the whole French 

 navy will be concentrated in the Mediterranean. Railway 

 accident near Erie, Pennsylvania; 6 killed, so injured. 

 Robert G. Valentine of Massachusetts, U.S. Commissioner 

 of Indian Affairs, resigns to work for election of Roosevelt. 



11. Mr. Winston Churchill speaks at Dundee on In- 

 surance Act and Home Rule. M. Fournay, French airman, 

 makes continuous flight of 13 hours, covering 631^ miles. 

 Turkish Committee of Union and Progress at Salonika 

 elect Prince Said Halim Secretary General. Lt. Moizp, 

 Italian military airman, taken prisoner by Arabs in Tripoli. 

 Fighting between Turks and Malissori at Ischafkisch 

 on Montenegrin frontier; heavy Turkish losses. "Every- 

 woman," modern morality play, produced at Drury Lane 

 Theatre, London. Mr. A. Belmont's "Tracery" wins the 

 St. Leger at Doncaster, Yorks. Southern Pacific Railway 

 asks U.S. Government for protection in Mexico. Paul 

 Peck, holder of American duration flight record, fatally 

 hurt at Chicago. 



12. Mr. Churchill speaks at Dundee on a federal system 

 for the United Kingdom. New Servian Cabinet formed 

 under M. Pashitch. Mr. Buxton W. Gibson, American 

 lawyer, arrested in New York for the murder of a client, 

 Mrs. Rosa Szabo. Dr. Niceta Budka appointed first 

 Ruthenian Bishop in Canada. Russian Duma dissolved. 

 British battle cruiser "Princess Royal" completes con- 

 tract trials and achieves record speed. Fred W. Carpenter 

 (b. 1873) of California appointed U.S. minister to Siam as 

 successor to Hamilton King, d. Sept. 2, 1912. 



13. Funeral of Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, at Tokio; 

 General Count Nogi and his wife commit suicide as the 

 funeral procession leaves the palace. Peruvian Chamber 

 of Deputies pass resolution protesting against attitude of 

 (.It. Britain and United States regarding Putumayo atroc- 

 ities, but demanding punishment of those guilty of cruelty 

 to Indians. Revolution in Santo Domingo; United States 

 decides to intervene. Salar-ed-Dowleh, Persian pretender, 

 reported captured. 



14. Interment of Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, near 

 Kyoto. Rioting at Belfast during a football match; over 

 100 persons injured. Lord Denman, Governor General of 

 Australia, turns first sod of Trans-Australian railway. 



Launch of British battleship "Audacious" at Birkenhead. 

 Mr. Howard Gill, American airman, killed at Chicago. 

 Murder of a ticket-collector at Aubrais station, near 

 Orleans, by motor-bandits. German torpedo boat, G 171, 

 sunk by battleship "Zahringen"; 6 men drowned. Report- 

 ed that Chinese forces in Tibet under General Tseng-Ting- 

 ling have captured Litang and Hsiangcheng. Inspector 

 Cornelius G. Hayes dismissed from New York force for 

 making "false official statement" that he had been ordered 

 not to raid Tenderloin resorts; two "gunmen" implicated in 

 murder of Herman Rosenthal (July 16) arrested. 



15. Railway accident at Blainville, near Nancy, France; 

 20 persons injured. Fightjng between Moorish tribesmen 

 and French column at Sidi Kacem, Morocco; French loss 

 9 killed, 30 wounded. By capsizing of sailing launch on 

 Lake Michigan ten recruits and a gunner's mate of U.S. 

 naval training school, Chicago, are drowned. 



16. Britjsh Army Manoeuvres begin. Sir Edward 

 Carson arrives in Belfast and is welcomed by the Orange- 

 men of Ulster. Terms on which Turkey is reported to be 

 prepared to make peace with Italy are announced by a 

 correspondent of the Temps. Liung Men-ting becomes 

 Chinese Foreign Minister. Chinese Finance Minister 

 announces difficulties with regard to London loan owing 

 to opposition of foreign governments. Garden Hall, 

 Cheshire, a i6th century half-timbered house, destroyed by 

 fire. Chinese Council holds secret session to consider Brit- 

 ish and Russian protest against Chinese military expedi- 

 tions to Tibet and Mongolia; Tibetan expeditions recalled. 

 Gun explosion on British battleship " King Edward VII": 

 i killed, 3 injured. Renewed fighting between Turks and 

 Malissori, lasting three days, near Tuzi on Montenegrin 

 frontier. New York Press purchased by Frank A. Munsey, 

 and begins to support Progressive ticket. 



17. Railway accident at Ditton Junctioti, Lanes.; train 

 catches fire; 15 killed, 40 injured. Irish mail train set on 

 fire in Wales; 8 injured. British steamship "Barrowmore" 

 injured by mine off Salonika. King George arrives at 

 Cambridge to attend British Army Manoeuvres. ^Opening 

 of Dutch States General at the Hague; Socialist street 

 disturbances. Disturbance in Hungarian Chamber at 

 Budapest; Opposition deputies removed by police. 

 M. Legagneux, French airman, rises to record height of 

 18,767 ft. at Houlgate, Trouville, France. Scott expedition 

 to Baffin Land in search of gold returns unsuccessful to St. 

 John 's, Newfoundland, bringing survivors of Munn expedi- 

 tion. Italians defeat Turco-Arabs at Derna in Tripoli; 

 Italian loss 61 killed, 113 wounded; Arab loss over 1,000. 

 British Consular service made available for Canadians. 



18. Ulster demonstrations against Home Rule begin at 

 Enniskillen; speeches by Sir E. Carson, Lord Hugh Cecil 

 and others. Funeral of Count Nogi and his wife at Tokio. 

 Emperor of Japan invested with Order of Garter by 

 Prince Arthur of Connaught. Street rioting at Budapest; 

 many injured, 80 arrests. Chinese Council announces 

 acceptance of Russian conditions concerning Outer Mon- 

 golia, but will resist any aggression on Inner Mongolia. 



19. Martial law proclaimed at Scutari, Albania, owing 

 to continued fighting between Malissori and Turks. 

 Terms of Solemn Covenant against Home Rule, to be signed 

 by Unionists of Ulster on Ulster Day (Sept. 28), published 

 in Belfast. Demonstration against Home Rule at Lisburn, 

 Ulster; Sir E. Carson speaks. Copyright treaty between 

 U.S. and Hungary ratified by representatives of the two 

 countries at Washington (see Jan. 30 and Oct. 16). 



20. M. Sazpnoff, Russian Foreign Minister, arrives in 

 London on polit ical mission. Demonstration against Home 

 Rule at Londonderry, Sir E. Carson and Mr. F. E. Smith 

 speak. Mrs. Leigh, suffragist, released from Mountjoy 

 prison, Dublin, after 44 days' hunger strike (see Aug. 6). 

 British Army airship "Gamma" wrecked near Devizes. 

 Kermanshah. Persia, evacuated by Salar-ed-Dowleh, 

 Persian pretender. Italians occupy Zanzur, Tripoli, 

 after ten hours fighting; 200 Italians killed and wounded; 

 heavy Arab loss. 



21. Demonstration against Home Rule at Coleraine; Sir 

 E. Carson, Mr. F. E. Smith, and Mr. Hugh Barrie speak. 

 Turkish troops despatched to Adrianople owing to ru- 

 moured critical situation in Bulgaria. Mr. H. J. D. Astley , 

 British airman, killed at Belfast. Lt. Berger and Lt. 

 Zunghanns. German airmen, killed near Chemnitz, and 

 Bittner. German parachutist, killed at Berlin. M_r. Lloyd 

 George opens Institute at Llanystumdwy ; suffragist inter- 

 rupters roughly handled by crowd. Three hundred armed 

 Cretans and revolutionary leader, Sofoulis (banished since 

 1908), land in Samos and are joined by many natives; fight- 

 ing with Turkish troops. 



22. Turkish garrison in Samos reinforced. Chinese 

 Government inform syndicate of bankers supported by the 



