SEPT. 23-OcT. 7 



DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



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Six Powers that, unless an immediate advance is granted, 

 they must proceed with the Crisp loan. Typhoon in 

 Japan causes immense damage and loss of life. -Turkish 

 Govt. issue scheme for reform in Turkish provinces both in 

 Europe and Asia by decentralisation. 



23. M. Sazonoff arrives at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, 

 and is received by King George. -Bolivian cabinet recon- 

 stituted with Senor Saracho as Foreign Minister and Sefior 

 Ascarruiz as Minister of Finance. Chinese Government 

 express regret that they cannot accept the Six Powers' 

 loan on the terms offered. Death of the Infanta Maria 

 Teresa, sister of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Railway 

 accident at Merville, near Caen, France; 2 killed, several 

 injured. isth International Congress of Hygiene and 

 Demography meets at Washington, U.S.A. 



24. Mr. Borden speaks at Toronto on Imperial unity. 

 Emperor of Austria and Count Berchtold address Austro- 

 Hungarian Delegations on foreign policy. Death of Baron 

 Marschall yon Bieberstein, at Baden weiler, aged 70. 

 Demonstration against Home Rule at Dromore. Malissori 

 attack Turkish ammunition escort near Lake Skutari, 

 Albania. Lt. Thomas, French military airman, killed at 

 Givronval. Lt. Szekeresy, Austro-Hungarian army, and 

 six soldiers arrested on Servian territory. Turkish Govt. 

 decide to hold general army manoeuvres in the Adrianople 

 district and in Macedonia. U.S. Govt. decides to send to 

 Santo Domingo two commissioners and 750 marines. 



25. British Minister in Peking protests to Yuan Shih-kai 

 against the Crisp loan to China. Demonstration against 

 Home Rule at Portadown; Sir E. Carson and Mr. F. E. 

 Smith speak. Lt. Ragazzoni, Italian military airman, 

 killed at Rome. Explosion on board British cruiser "South- 

 ampton"; i killed, i injured. Fighting in Samos; Turkish 

 troops kill women and children; British and French cruisers 

 land marines to protect foreign subjects at Vathy. Senor 

 Mena and 700 revolutionaries in Nicaragua surrender to 

 Rear-Admiral Southerland, U.S. Navy. 



26. Prospectus of Chinese Government 5% Gold Loan 

 issued by Birch Crisp & Co. in London. Demonstrations 

 against Home Rule at Ballyroney (Lord C. Beresford 

 speaks) and at Newtonards (Lord Londonderry speaks); 

 pledge_ for Irish peers and first signatures published. 

 Exhibition of night flying in illuminated aeroplanes at 

 Hendon, Middlesex. M. Charles Voisin, French airman, 

 killed in motor accident at Belleville-sur-Sa6ne. Capt. C. 

 L. Bumbaugh, American airman, killed at North Manches- 

 ter, Ind. Fighting on Montenegrin frontier; 3 Turks killed, 

 7 mortally wounded; Montenegrins 15 killed and wounded. 

 Turkish Govt., persuaded by French Ambassador, aban- 

 don proposed grand manoeuvres; decide to hold divisional 

 manoeuvres in eleven different divisions. 



27. Demonstration against Home Rule in Ulster Hall, 

 Belfast; Sir E. Carson speaks. General strike threatened 

 on all Spanish railways, and put to the vote. Turkish 

 Govt. stop Servian war-material at Salonika and refuse to 

 allow it to be conveyed through the Turkish lines. 



28. Signing of Solemn Covenant against Home Rule by 

 people of Ulster. Majority of doctors of the United King- 

 dom resign contract practice with medical clubs as a pro- 

 test against the terms offered under National Insurance 

 Act. Land taxation conference opens in Glasgow. Lord 

 Rosebery speaks at Postwick near Norwich on land taxa- 

 tion. French battleship "Paris" launched at Toulon. 

 106 Koreans sentenced at Seoul to from 5 to 10 years' im- 

 prisonment for conspiracy against the life of Count Terau- 

 chi. J. L. Longstaff, British airman, killed at Hempstead, 

 N. Y. Lt. L. Rockwell and Corporal Frank Scott, Ameri- 

 can airmen, killed at College Park, Md. 



29. Hostilities in Samos suspended; British and French 

 flags hoisted in Vathy, and town patrolled by British and 

 French marines. 



30. Decree for general mobilisation of the Bulgarian 

 army signed at Sofia, and martial law declared in districts 

 of Philippopolis and Bourgas. Decree for general mobilisa- 

 tion of Servian army signed at Belgrade. Montenegrin 

 Government apologise to Turkey for attack on Turkish 

 ammunition escort on Sept. 24. Demonstration against 

 Home Rule at Liverpool; Sir E. Carson and Mr. F. E. Smith 

 speak. Royal Commission on Public Records issues first 

 report in London. Stated that M. Sazonoff and Sir E. 

 Grey are ^agreed that neither Russia nor England desire 

 the partition of Persia and are considering the best way of 

 strengthening her government. Announced that 2,000,- 

 ooo of the Crisp Chinese loan has been subscribed by the 

 public. Rioting at Lawrence, Mass., in protest against 

 imprisonment of strike leaders. U.S. Senate committee in- 

 vestigating campaign contributions renews its sessions at 

 Washington. Pulitzer school of journalism at Columbia 

 University formally opened. 



October: 



1. Imperial enclave formed to include Delhi, India; to 

 be known as Chief Commissionership of Delhi; Mr. W. M. 

 Hailey appointed Chief Commissioner. Turkish imperial 

 irade issued ordering general mobilisation of Turkish axmy; 

 Servian demand for release of ammunition, seized by Turks, 

 rejected. Decree for general mobilisation of Montenegrin 

 army signed at Cettigne. Decree for general mobilisation 

 of Greek army and navy signed at Athens. Anglican 

 Church Congress opens at Middlesborough, Yorks. 

 Strike of Cotton-workers at Oldham, Lanes. Demonstra- 

 tion against Home Rule in Glasgow; Sir E. Carson speaks. 

 Explosion on board U.S. destroyer "Walke"; one officer 

 killed, several seamen injured. Spanish Central Union of 

 Railwaymen decide on general strike to begin Oct. 8. 

 "The Turning Point," English version of H. Kistemaeck- 

 ers' "La Flambee," produced at St. James's Theatre, 

 London. Trial of labour union officials, indicted Feb. 14, 

 for conspiracy to transport dynamite, begun at Indian- 

 apolis, U.S.A. (see Dec. 28). 



2. Mr. Lloyd George confers with medical members of 

 Insurance Advisory Committee on scale of medical remun- 

 eration under Insurance Act. Demonstration at Cettigne 

 in favour of war with Turkey. Bulgarian troops seize 

 Turkish blockhouses in Djuma-i-Bala district. Mark 

 Vv ilks, imprisoned for refusal to pay his wife 's income tax, 

 released from Brixton prison, London. M. Sazonoff leaves 

 London for Paris. Vermont (U.S.A.) legislature electa 

 Allen M. Fletcher, Rep., as Governor (see Sept. 3). 



3. Demonstration at Constantinople in favour of war 

 with Bulgaria; Nazim Pasha, minister of war, appointed 

 Commander-in-Chief of Turkish forces; Turkish frontier 

 guards attack Montenegrins near Berane. Reported that 

 Belgian capitalists have lent 10,000,000 to China in con- 

 nection with railway contract between Honan and Shansi. 

 British Insurance Commissioners issue provisional 

 regulations as to administration of medical benefit. Roy- 

 alist conspirators in Portugal sentenced at Lisbon to six 

 years' imprisonment followed by ten years' deportation. 

 Mr. J. P. Morgan informs Committee of U.S. Senate that 

 his firm contributed to Republican funds in 1904 and 1908 

 but without motive of securing benefits. Miss G. Evans, 

 Suffragist, serving sentence of penal servitude for attempted 

 burning of Theatre Royal, Dublin, released on grounds of 

 health. Railway accident near Westport.'Conn.; 7 persona 

 killed, 40 injured. Celebration of centenary of Cortes of 

 Cadiz at Cadiz. 18 persons arrested for rioting in Cyprus 

 on May 27 sentenced at Limasol to terms of imprisonment 

 varying from 9 months to 15 years. 



4. British submarine 82 sunk in English Channel by 

 liner " Amerika"; 15 lives lost. Services held in London to 

 celebrate 2$oth anniversary of Great Ejectment of Presby- 

 terian clergy in 1662. Turkish government withdraw 

 troops from Samos. Demonstration of sympathy with 

 Bulgaria at St. Petersburg railway station. -Demonstra- 

 tion before Sultan 's palace at Constantinople in favour of 

 war. M. Poincare confers with M. Sazonoff in Paris," 

 American marines capture Coyotepe, Nicaragua, with loss 

 of 4 killed and 5 wounded, and Nicaraguan Government 

 troops recapture Masaya with loss of 100 dead and ?OQ 

 wounded. Harry Vardon wins News of the World profes- 

 sional golf championship at Sunnyside. Special U.S. 

 Senate committee investigating campaign contributions 

 hears testimony from Ex-Pres. Roosevelt. 



5. M. Poincare communicates to British Foreign Office 

 French proposals for averting war in the Balkans, which 

 involve joint action of Austria-Hungary and Russia in 

 Balkan capitals and joint action of all the Powers in Con- 

 stantinople. Bulgarian and Servian parliaments meet at 

 Sofia and Belgrade in extraordinary session. Jack Zelig, % 

 witness in forthcoming trial of Police Lt. Becker for murder 

 of Rosenthal, shot dead in New York. Spanish general 

 railway strike averted. Mr. Asquith, at Ladybank. 

 Fifeshire, says that the Government will not bow to the 

 threats of Ulster but adhere to their intention to place the 

 Home Rule Bill on the Statute Book. 



6. Death of M. Beernaert, Belgian Minister at Lucerne, 

 aged 83. British and other Governments signify adhesion 

 in principle to French proposals for averting war in the 

 Balkans. Court martial at Constantinople condemns one 

 Moslem to death and one to penal servitude for life for 

 complicity in Kotchana massacre. American forcea take 

 the town of Leon, Nicaragua. 



7. Proposed peace agreement between Italy and Turkey 

 presented to Italian Cabinet at Rome by Signer Giolitti. 

 British House of Commons re-assembles; Sir Edward Grey 

 makes statement on Balkan crisis. Debate on report of 

 Court of Inquiry into loss of the "Titanic" in British 

 House of Commons. Mr. Lloyd George authorises state- 



