DIARY OF EVENTS 



January: 1911 .. 



1. Pauper disqualification for old age pensions in the 

 United Kingdom ceases to be operative. Gen. Juan 

 Estrada inaugurated President of Nicaragua. U. S. Dept. 

 of State renews diplomatic relations, broken off Dec. i, 

 1909, with Nicaragua. A French Jew, Leon Beron, found 

 stabbed to death on Clapham Common, London. Druses 

 defeated by Turks east of Kerak, in the Hauran and driven 

 into the desert. New star discovered in the Milky Way by 

 T. H. Espin of Walsingham Observatory, Durham. 



2. Statue of General Wolfe unveiled by Lord Roberts 

 at Westerham, Kent. 



3. London Police surround a house in Sidney Street, 

 Mile End, to effect the capture of the murderers of three 

 policemen at Houndsditcn on Dec. 16, 1910. Soldiers 

 and Maxim guns brought to their aid. The house and 

 inmates destroyed by fire. Govt. of India publish order 

 prohibiting from July i emigration of indentured Indians 

 to Natal. Railway accident at Gaika's Loop, near Cath- 

 cart, Cape Colony; 18 killed, 50 injured. M. Regnard, 

 French actor, shot dead in a restaurant at Paris. Sweden 

 agrees to lend officers for the Persian gendarmerie. First 

 Postal Savings Banks opened in U. S. post offices. U. S. 

 Government's Panama Canal libel suit instigated in 1908 

 by Pres. Roosevelt against New York World dismissed by 

 U. S. Supreme Court. 



4. Earthquake at Vyernyi in Russian Turkestan; 40 

 people killed. Peru agrees to submit her dispute with 

 Ecuador to Hague Tribunal. Australia wins test match 

 against South African cricketers at Melbourne by 89 runs. 

 Death of Syed Abdul Ahad, Emir of Bokhara. Institute of 

 France declares against admission of women to membership. 

 U. S. Govt. files in New York City petition in equity 

 under Sherman law against Hamburg American Packet Co. 

 and 12 other trans-Atlantic lines. 



5. King of Spain and Sefior Canalejas, Prime Minister, 

 leave Madrid on a visit to Melilla, Morocco. 



6. 90,000 contributed for the relief of sufferers by the 

 colliery disaster at Bo'.ton, Lancashire, on December 21. 

 David Davies, "the old shepherd of Dartmoor," released 

 from prison by order of the British Home Secretary. Resig- 

 nation of Tang Shao-yi, Pres. of Chinese Ministry of Com- 

 munications; he is succeeded by Sheng Kan-pao. 



7. The Commission of Senators in Italy report that the 

 Second Chamber should be more representative. Prince 

 Albert of Monaco grants constitutional govt. Carnegie 

 Trust Company of New York closed by state superintendent 

 of banks. 



8. Rioting in Lisbon; newspaper offices wrecked. 



g. Mr. Lloyd George confers with Parliamentary Com- 

 mittee of Trade Union Congress on British Govt. scheme 

 for insurance against sickness and invalidity. Treaty 

 between France and Liberia signed in London. Stinie 

 Morrison arrested in London for murder of Leon Beron on 

 Clapham Common. Board of Trade inquiry into loss of 

 the " Waratah" resumed in London. First South American 

 Postal Congress meets in Montevideo. Elliott Northcott 

 (b. 1869) of W. Va. appointed U. S. minister to Nicaragua. 



10. Pres. Taft instructs Secretary of American Navy to 

 reprimand Commander Sims for saying at the Guildhall, 

 London, that his country would come to the aid of Great 

 Britain in the event of a foreign war. French Chamber 

 reopens; M. Brisson re-elected Pres. Prussian 

 Landtag reopens. Debate on Lorimer case begins in 

 U. S. Senate. Royal Commission on Canals and Water- 

 ways in Great Britain issues tenth Report. Manuel E. 

 Oranjo elected Pres. of Salvador. Secretary of State 

 Knox and Juan Parades, special envoy for Honduras, sign 

 treaty by which U. S. guarantees loan froin American 

 bankers to Honduras without assuming financial protec- 

 torate. Cincinnati (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce and other 

 buildings burned, with a loss of about $i ,006,060. 



11. German Emperor's Society for the Promotion of 

 Scientific Research formally constituted in Berlin. 

 Chinese National Assembly dissolved. Emilio Estrada 

 elected Pres. of Ecuador. New Palace of Justice, Rome, 

 opened by King Victor Emmanuel. Resignation of 

 Rumanian Liberal Cabinet; M. Carp forms Conservative 

 Ministry. General strike declared on Portuguese railways, 

 followed by strike of shop assistants in Lisbon. Fighting 

 between Mexican Govt. troops and insurgents near Corn- 

 stock, Texas. 



12. Rioting at Bombay between Shiah and Sunni 

 Mahommedans. Sefior de Almeida, Portuguese Minister 

 of the Interior, threatens resignation. New Ministry 

 formed in Chile by Senor Rafael Orrego. Pres. Taft in 

 special message to Congress asks $5,000,000 for fortifying 

 Panama Canal. 



13. Portuguese Cabinet crisis averted. Another earth- 

 quake in Russian Turkestan; over 200 killed. Settlement 

 of Atlantic Fisheries Regulations announced from Wash- 

 ington. South Africa wins third test match against 

 Australian cricketers at Adelaide by 38 runs. Rembrandt's 

 "Night Watch" in Ryks Museum, Amsterdam, damaged 

 with knife by discharged naval cook. Robert Caldwell, 

 principal witness in Druce case (see E. B. xxii, ngd) dies 

 in New York City in insane asylum. 



14. Judgment of High Court of Bombay in Nasik con- 

 spiracy case published in London; sentence of transporta- 

 tion for life with forfeiture of property on Savarkar, Indian 

 stadent, confirmed. Portuguese railway strike settled; 

 gas-workers on strike in Lisbon ejected by govt. troops. 

 French force ambushed in Morocco; 5 killed, 6 wounded. 

 U. S. battleship "Arkansas," 26,000 tons displacement, 

 launched at Camden, N. J. 



15. Railway accident at Vire, France; 3 killed. Three 

 negroes lynched at Shelbyville, Kentucky. King Alfonso 

 returns to Spain from Melilla. 



16. M. Pichon, in French Chamber, defends the Anglo- 

 Russian agreement. Remains of German balloon, " Hilder- 

 brandt," containing bodies of two aeronauts, found under 

 ice in lake in Pomerania. Keels laid at Portsmouth and 

 Devonport of two new British battleships, "King George V" 

 and "Centurion." 



17. M. Briand, French Premier, shot at by Jizoline, a 

 madman, in Chamber of Deputies. German submarine 

 U 3 sinks in Kiel harbour; 3 lives lost. Redistribution of 

 Seats Bill occasions violent scenes in Parliament of Western 

 Australia. Explosion on U. S battleship "Delaware" causes 

 8 deaths. Death of Sir Francis Gallon, aged 88. 



18. The Mutjihids of Nedjif issue manifesto exhorting 

 Sunnis and Shiah's to sink all differences and combine to 

 protect Turkey and Persia from foreign aggression. 

 French Senate pass bill for regulating liquor traffic in 

 France. Dr. Kotoku and 23 others sentenced to death at 

 Tokio for conspiracy against life of Mikado. Mrs. Horace 

 West wins libel action in the High Court, London, against 

 her father-in-law, Sir Algernon \Vest; damages 1,250. 

 Colombian troops invade Peruvian territory. H. Clay 

 Howard (b. 1860) of Kentucky appointed U. S. minister 

 to Peru, as successor of Leslie Combs. Powder explosion 

 at Keating gold-mine, Radersburg, Montana; six lives lost. 



19. Ways and Means Committee of the U. S. House of 

 Representatives given power to appoint committees. 

 American Institute of Architects closes its 44th annual 

 convention at San Francisco. Reciprocity Conferences 

 take place between Canadian ministers and U. S. State 

 Dept. Chinese Assembly's Constitutional programme 

 published with the Throne's modification. Mr. Percy 

 Simmons, defeated Unionist candidate for St. George's in 

 the East, London, wins 5,000 damages for libel from 

 Liberal Opinion. Champagne riots at fipernay, France. 

 Resignation of Pres. Gondra of Paraguay; succeeded by 

 Col. Jara. 



20. M. Briand, French Premier, speaks in Chamber on 

 the government's relations to the General Confederation 

 of Labour. Dr. Talbot, Bishop of Southwark, translated 

 to Bishopric of Winchester. Rioting at Hankau quelled 

 by British and German bluejackets; 12 Chinese killed, 13 

 wounded. Ecuador refuses to subm it her dispute with Peru 

 teethe Hague Tribunal. Andrew Carnegie adds $10,000,- 

 ooo to endowment of Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 D.'C. Dr. H. C. Bumpus (b. 1862), director of American 

 Museum of Natural History since 1902; resigns. 



21. Pres. Taft speaks in New York on the duty of the 

 U. S. to fortify the Panama Canal. Mexican Govt. troops 

 ambushed at Galanea by insurgents, losing 80 dead and 

 50 wounded. U. S. War Dept. sends cavalry to Mexican 

 frontier to preserve neutrality of American territory. 

 Rifaat Pasha speaks in Turkish Chamber on Russo- 

 German Agreement and Bagdad railway. Wales beats 

 England in Rugby football at Swansea by 15 points to n. 



at, Honduran gunboat "Horner" seized by U. S. 



