Nov. 20-DEC. 5 



DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



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killed. Railway accident near Gull Lake, Canada; 18 

 killed. Gladstone Professorship of Political Theory and 

 Institutions founded at Oxford. Duke of Northumber- 

 land appointed Chancellor of Durham University. 

 Four "gunmen," arrested for share in murder of Herman 

 Rosenthal, found guilty in first degree 'see Aug. 20). 



20. Hostilities at Chatalja suspended while conditions 

 of peace are discussed. Greeks occupy Fiorina and cut 

 off Turkish retreat from Monastir. Servia permits Austro- 

 Hungarian Foreign Office to communicate with Consul 

 Prochaska at Prisrend, whose recall Servia had demanded. 

 South African Party Congress opens at Pretoria, and 

 South African Unionist Congress opens a-t Johannesburg. 

 Russian Cossack troons leave Urga for Southern Mon- 



golia. Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in Convoca- 

 tion, commends Minority Report of Divorce Commission. 

 British House of Commons pass new Financial Resolu- 

 tion for Home Rule Bill by 317 votes, to 195. Theft of 

 10,000 in gold, whilst in transit from London to Alexan- 

 dria, reported from Port Paid. Suit brought by U.S. 

 Govt. against Federal Sugar Refining Co. of Yonkers, 

 N. Y., for $119,080 alleged under-valuation. Carmi 

 Thompson (b. 1870), sec. to Pres. Taft, appointed U.S. 

 Treasurer as successor to Lee McClung, resigned Nov 14. 



21. Porte declares terms of Allies unacceptable and 

 orders resumption of war. Bulgarian torpedo boats attack 

 Turkish cruiser ."Hamidiyeh" in Black Sea. Greeks 

 occupy Mytilene. Opening, of Canadian Parliament. 

 Capt. Paiva Couceiro, Portuguese Royalist leader, sen- 

 tenced to 6 years' imprisonment with exile. Signer Berto- 

 liniappointed first Italian Colonial Minister. Mr. Carnegie 

 offers to provide pensions of 5,000 for future U.S. ex- 

 presidents or their widows. National Woman Suffrage 

 Association holds convention in Philadelphia. 



22. Archduke Francis Ferdinand visits German Emperor 

 in Berlin. Bulgarian delegates leave Kirk Kilisse for 

 Chitalja to resume .discussion of armistice; Nazim Pasha 

 meets Gen. Savoff outside Chatalja lines. Bulgarians 

 occupy Dedea^atch, Malgara, Rodosto and Gumuljina. 

 Mr. Asquith speaks at Nottingham on Home Rule Bill 

 and the disorder in House of Commons. British House 

 of Commons appoint Select Committee to inquire 

 whether Sir Stuart Samuel has vacated his seat, through 

 his firm making a profit from Govt. contract for purchas- 

 ing silver for India. Cambridge University abolishes 

 restriction limiting divinity degrees to members of Church 

 of England by majority of 109. Violent cyclonic storm 

 over Bombay and Western India. Native chiefs arrested 

 in Sierra Leone for "Human Leopard" cannibal practices. 

 John Schrank, who shot ex-president Roosevelt pro- 

 nounced insane by board of alienists, at Milwaukee, Wise. 

 O 'Gara Coal Co. and 3 subsidiaries of New York Central 

 System indicted by a Federal (U.S.) grand jury a,t Chicago 

 for rebating. Theodore Marburg named U.S. minister 

 to Belgium, succeeding Larz Anderson. Frey, French 

 airman, killed at Batteny, and Laurent, French military 

 airman, killed at Villesauvage, near Etampes. 



23. Servians occupy Ochrida. King Peter of Servia 

 returns to Belgrade. Bolton by-election results in return 

 of Mr. T. Taylor (Liberal, majority 1,176. Sir George 

 Ross appointed leader of Liberal majority in Canadian 

 Senate. National Commission on Depopulation opens 

 in Paris. El Hiba, Moorish Pretender, defeated by El 

 Glawi, who enters Tarudant and receives submission of 

 Sus tribes. Mine explosion near Alais, France; 24 lives 

 lost. Mr. Galsworthy's play "The Eldest Son" produced 

 at Kingsway Theatre, London. American Federation of 

 Labour closes 32nd annual convention at Rochester, N. Y.; 

 Samuel Gompers re-elected president. Retirement of 

 Manuel Calero, Mexican Ambassador to U.S. announced. 

 Official announcement that Gordon Bennett internation- 

 al balloon cup was won by French balloon Picardie, piloted 

 by M. Bienaime, making 1,358 miles, the world's record. 

 Harvard and Yale football match won by Harvard at 

 New Haven, 20 to o. 



24. Rioting at Budapest in connection with Socialist 

 anti-war meetings. Panic at cinematograph show, Bilbao, 

 Spain; 44 killed, 60 injured. Greeks occupy Chios. 

 Samos proclaims its union with Greece. Locomotive engi- 

 neers of Eastern railroad U.S. awarded an increase of wages 

 by arbitration board ''see April 22, 23, 30). Eugene V. 

 Debs, Socialist candidate for U.S. Presidency, indicted for 

 bribery by Federal grand jury in Kansas. 



25. Balkan and Turkish peace delegates meet at Baght- 

 chetsh outside Chatalja lines. Heavy fall of stocks in 

 Vienna and Berlin owing to rumour of trouble between 

 Austria and Russia over Servian question. Austrian war- 

 ships- recalled from Levant. Conference between Mr. 

 Lloyd George and Mr. Masterman, and a committee of 



British Medical Association. Conference in New York 

 City on workmen's compensation legislation. Fire at 

 Union Sulphur Works, Brooklyn. Explosion in Starch 

 Works at Waukegan, 111., kills 23 persons and injures 100. 

 Tacloba, in Philippines, almost destroyed by typhoon. 

 First Trade union (goldsmiths) formed in China. 



26. Austrian Consul at Prisrend, Herr Prochaska, de- 

 tained for some days by Servians, arrives at Uskub. 

 Tsar of Russia receives Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at 

 Tsarskoe Selo. Bow and Bromley by-election results 

 in defeat of Mr. G. Lansbury (Suffragist and Socialist), 

 who had resigned to test feeling oa Woman Suffrage; 

 majority against, 751. Nineteen Syndicalists, belonging 

 to society of "Sou du Soldat," sentenced in Paris to 3 

 months' imprisonment and a fine for insulting the Army. 

 Eleven Russian sailors shot at Sevastopol for mutiny. 

 Death of the Countess of Flanders, mother ol the King 

 of the Belgians.-^M. Bataille's play "Les Flambeaux" 

 produced at Porte St. Martin Theatre, Paris. Leaders 

 of Lawrence (Mass.) strike acquitted on murder charge. 

 The Indiana constitutional amendment case is carried 

 to the Federal Supreme Court. . 



27. Run on Austrian and German savings banks in 

 Galicia, Northern Hungary and East Prussia. Franco- 

 Spanish 'Treaty signed at Madrid. Sir Edward Henry, 

 Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, London, shot at 

 and wounded by motor-car driver. Albert T. Patrick, 

 convicted of murder (1900) of W. M. Rice, pardoned by 

 Gov. Dix of New York. Wreck on Pennsylvania R.R. 

 near Glen Loch, Pa., kills 2 and injures 30. 



28. 9,000 Turks under Yaver Pasha surrender to Bul- 

 garians near Dedeagatch. Servians occupy Dibra. 

 Austrian Premier announces introduction of three Army 

 Bills. Albanian delegates at Valona issue proclamation 

 of independence and elect Ismail Kema! Bey as head of 

 Provisional Government. German Imperial Chancellor 

 orders Governor of East Prussia to issue re-assuring state- 

 ment to stop run on savings banks. Fourth Russian Duma 

 opens with patriotic speech on Balkan crisis by M. Rodzian- 

 ko. President. White Slave Traffic Bill read a second time 

 in British House of Lords. Organised attempt to destroy 

 letters in pillar-boxes made by women suffragists in Lon- 

 don and provincial towns. Railway accident to Russian 

 train near Harbin; n killed, 52 injured. 



_2g. Lord Haldane and Mr. W. Churchill speak at 

 Eighty Club dinner, London, and Lord Curzon at Plymouth 

 on European situation and British military necessities. 

 Charles H. Hyde, ex-chamberlain ot New York City, con- 

 victed of accepting a bribe as a public officer. 



30. Servians occupy Elbasau. Waihi miners' strike, 

 New Zealand, declared at an end. 

 December: 



2. German Imperial Chancellor speaks in Reichstag on 

 Balkan crisis. King Ferdinand and his Finance Minister 

 leave Sofia for Chatalja. Greek delegates delay negotia- 

 tions for armistice, and Greek gunboat bombards Valona. 

 Cabinet crisis at Tokyo; resignation of General Uyhara, 

 Minister of War. Archbishop Nouel installed provisional 

 President of Republic of Santo Domingo, succeeding 

 Victoria, resigned November 28. Lord Rosebery speaks 

 at Bathgate on Lord Roberts 's warnings as to efficiency 

 of Territorial force. U.S. Congress assembles. U.S. 

 Supreme Court (reversing circuit court) orders dissolution 

 of Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railway merger. 

 Several American bishops named at papal consistory. 



3. Armistice signed at Chatalja between Turkey, 

 Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro, Greece abstaining. 

 Pres. Taft 's message on Foreign Affairs read in Congress. 

 Impeachment of Judge Archibald begins in U.S. Senate. 

 Mr. Balfour speaks in City of London on Govt.'s parlia- 

 mentary policy. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking to deputa- 

 tion of Women's Liberal Federations of Wales, condemns 

 militancy, whilst expressing sympathy with woman suf- 

 frage. Oxford University abolishes restriction of Divinity 

 degrees to priests of the Church of England by 151 votes. 

 5th annual conference of governors meets at Richmond, 

 Va., adjourning Dec. 7. In rear collision on Cincinnati 

 & Muskingum Valley R.R. near Dresden, Ohio, 7 are killed 

 and 8 fatally injured. Federal grand jury investigates 

 agreement between New York, New Haven & Hartford 

 and Grand Trunk railways. 



4. Catholic Centre Party in German Reichstag condemn 

 policy of Imperial Chancellor and Federal Council as re- 

 gards Jesuit law of 1877. Mr. Winston Churchill announces 

 to British House of Commons proposed increases of pay in 

 British Navy. Resignation of Marquis Saionji, Japanese 

 premier. National Rivers and Harbors Congress meets in 

 Washington, D. C. 



5. Canadian Premier announces offer of three Dread- 



