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DIARY OF EVENTS 1912 



noughts to British Navy, to cost 7,000,000. Turkey, 

 Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro appoint delegates to 

 attend Peace Conference in London. M. Poincare" speaks 

 in Chamber of Deputies on Balkan crisis. British Insur- 

 ance Commissioners issue final Memorandum as to medical 

 benefit under National Insurance Act. Col. Seely, speaking 

 in London, denies charges of inefficiency made at,ainst 

 Territorials. Mr. J, Scott Mason, Governor of Butish 

 North Borneo, killed by fall from his horse; Mr. Ajilmer 

 C. Pearson appointed to Succeed him. U.S. House of 

 Representatives passes Adamson bill for physical valuation 

 oi railroads and regulation of stock and bond issues by 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. Indictment of Juiy 

 i, 1009 against American Sugar Refining Co. for violating 

 Sherman anti-trust law by acquiring Pennsylvania Sugar 

 Refining Co. is withdrawn (see Mar. 31). 



6. Austro-Hungarian Government assents to British 

 proposal of meeting of Ambassadors in London to discuss 

 Balkan settlement. Austria and Italy protest at Athens 

 against Greek bombardment of Valona. Admiral Prince 

 Louis of Battenberg and Vice-Admiral Sir J. Jellicoe ap- 

 pointed First and Second Sea Lords of British Admiralty. 

 Mgr. Vladimir, Metropolitan of Moscow, appointed 

 Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and President of Most 

 Holy Synod. British Medical Association issue Report on 

 Government's final terms for medical service under Insur- 

 ance Act. Pres. Taft's message on domestic and insular 

 affairs, read in Congress, recommends Aldrich currency 

 reform, opposes Philippine independence, etc. 



7. It is announced from Vienna that the Triple Alliance 

 has been renewed without change. Hassan Riaz Pasha, 

 Governor of Skutari, refuses to accept the armistice and 

 continues hostilities. A French and a German airship 

 ordered for British Navy. Strike on North Eastern Rail- 

 way, Gateshead, owing to reduction of Knox, an engine- 

 driver, after conviction for drunkenness when off duty. 

 Portuguese corporal sentenced to i year's imprisonment 

 for shooting Rev. A. J. Douglas at Kango, East Africa, in 

 November 1911. In report on the Westport wreck (Oct. 3) 

 the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission severely cen- 

 sures the N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R. for failure to instal 

 safety devices. Republican governors of la states confer 

 in Washington, D. C., on party reorganisation. In a head 

 collision on the Western Maryland R.R. near Pen Mar, Md., 

 5 are killed and 2 injured. 



8. Turkish cavalry and artillery withdrawn from Trip- 

 oli. Agreement announced between the United States 

 and Great Britain on composition of arbitration tribunal 

 for certain long-standing pecuniary claims. 



9. Resignation of General von Auffenberg, Austrian 

 War Minister, and of General von Schemua, Chief of Gen- 

 eral Staff. King Charles of Rumania opens Rumanian 

 Chamber with pacific speech on Balkan crisis. Protest 

 against violation of Hay-Pauncefote Treaty by Panama 

 Canal Act presented to U.S. Secretary of State by British 

 Ambassador at Washington. Resignation of Mr. Beeby, 

 New South Wales Minister of Lands. Massacre of Belgian 

 customs inspector and staff by Kurds at Lohinjan on 

 Turco-Persian frontier. Henri Rouart art sale begins in 

 Paris; 8,400 paid for a Corot, and 17,400 for a Degas. 

 U.S. Supreme Court holds Chicago Stock Yards Co. is 

 within the interstate commerce law, thereby reversing 

 decision of Commerce Court A 14-inch gun explodes 

 during a test at Sandy Hook, U.S.A., but with no loss of 

 life. The U.S. House of Representatives passes legislative, 

 executive and judicial appropriation bill, with no provision 



I for the Commerce Court. "Money Trust" hearings 

 ; resumed before U.S. Congressional Committee. 



10. General Krobatkin becomes Austrian War Minister, 

 and General Konrad von HCHzendorf Chief of General 

 Staff. Turkish infantry leave Tripoli. Grand Duke 

 Nicholas visits King Charles of Rumania at Bucharest. 

 Collision off Portland Bill between British battleship 

 "Centurion" and steamer "Derna." Sir E. Grey states 

 in letter to Miss Haldane that Cabinet will accept decision 

 of House of Commons on a woman suffrage amendment to 

 Franchise Bill. False alarms of fire given in London by 

 wmen suffragists In Inter-University Rugby football 

 match Cambridge beats Oxford by TO points to 3. Mem- 

 bers of Progressive party confer in Chicago. New National 

 Association of Port Authorities ends a two-days conference 

 at New York City. 



it. Sir E. Grey announces in British House of Commons 

 that Ambassadors of Great Powers will meet in London 

 for " informal and non-committal consultation " on Balkan 

 Question. Capt. A. B. Eckford killed by tribesmen near 

 Shiraz, Persia. M. Garros, French airman, reaches record 

 height of 18.670 ft. at Tunis. 



12. Death of Prince Luii j old, Prince Regent of Bavaria 



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aged 91. Fighting between Greeks and Turks near 

 Yanina. White Slave Traffic Bill passes British House 

 of Lords. British House of Commons conclude Committee 

 Stage of Home Rule Bill. Russia warns China that a 

 rupture of negotiations is imminent if settlement of Mon- 

 golian question is further delayed M. Edouard Mtiller 

 elected President of the Swiss Confederation. United 

 States battleship sent to San Domingo. Debate on 

 Franco-Spanish treaty opened in Spanish Chamber by 

 Count Mortera. The medal of honour of the National 

 Institute of Arts and Letters, U.S.A., awarded to William 

 Rutherford Mead for architecture (see E. B. xvii, 945). 

 Keeper of disorderly house in New York City accuses 

 police of corruption. 



_ 13. British Minister at Teheran addresses note to Per- 

 sian Foreign Minister demanding punishment of murderers 

 of Capt. Eckford. Mr. Choate, in New York, denounces 

 any refusal to submit Panama Canal question to arbitra- 

 tion. Danish House passes Bill to amend Constitution, 

 by 95 votes to 12. In Philadelphia suit is filed by U.S. 

 district attorney against "candy trust." 



14. Resignation of General Botha, Premier of South 

 Africa. Strike on North Eastern Railway settled; engine- 

 driver Knox to be given a free pardon and re-installed, 

 and strikers to forfeit six days' pay. South Africa beats 

 Wales at Rugby football at Cardiff by 3 points to nil. 

 U.S. Senate approves erection of a Lincoln memorial 

 temple in Potomac Park, Washington, D. C., to cost 

 $2,000,000. Interstate Commerce Commission orders 

 all interstate express companies to submit before February 

 i, 1913 complete statements of their business on designated 

 days. In Chicago suit filed for dissolution of the Elgin 

 Board of Trade and the American Association of Creamery 

 Butter Manufacturers for conspiracy to fix price of butter. 

 William Henry Fox (b. 1858), director the John Herron 

 Art Institute, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.A., since 1005, is 

 elected curator in chief of the Museums of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences, to take charge Jan. i, 1913, 

 in place of Frederic A. Lucas, recently retired. 



15. Death in London of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, American 

 Ambassador. Lieut. Wilfrid Parke, R.N., naval airman, 

 and Mr. A. Hardwicke, killed at Wembley. Attempt to 

 lynch Peruvian Government Commissioners sent to Putu- 

 mayo rubber district. Reported shooting of several per- 

 sons at Holda on British territory by Portuguese force from 

 Goa, India. 



16. Peace Conference of Balkan, Greek and Turkish 

 delegates opened at St. James's Palace, London, by Sir 

 Edward Grey. British Minister at Peking protests to 

 Chinese Government against violation of Opium agree- 

 ment. Mr. Bonar Law speaks at Ashton-under-Lyne on 

 Tariff Reform policy of Unionist party, and advocates 

 Colonial Conference to consider question of food taxes. 

 Confederation du Travail declares 24 hours' strike in 

 France as protest against war. Naval engagement between 

 Greek and Turkish fleets outside Dardanelles. Turkish 

 sortie from Skutari repulsed by Montenegrins. Carl Louis 

 Alsberg is named chief of the bureau of chemistry, U.S. 

 department of agriculture, successor to Dr. Harvey Wiley. 

 U.S. Supreme Court in the Reading coal case holds 

 there is no general combination for restraint of trade. 

 4th biennial exhibition of contemporary oil painting opens 

 at the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; ist prize 

 to Childe Hassam for "The New York Window." U.S. 

 Senate chooses as alternating presidents A. O. Bacon (Geor- 

 gia) and J. M. Gallinger (New Hampshire). 



17. Peace Conference adjourns until Turkish delegates 

 receive instructions as to whether they may deal with 

 Greeks before Greece signs the Chatalja armistice. 

 Meeting of Ambassadors of the Great Powers at the Foreign 

 Office, London, Sir E. Grey presiding. Herr Edl's report 

 on Prochaska incident published in Vienna. Prince Kat- 

 sura directed by Emperor of Japan to form a Cabinet. 

 Peruvian Government order arrest of Julio Arana, director 

 of Putumayo rubber industry. Spanish Chamber of 

 Deputies adopt Franco-Spanish Treaty by 216 votes to 22. 

 Death of "Common," famous English racehorse. Pres. 

 appoints Q members of commission on Industrial Relations 

 provided for by act of Congress approved Aug. 24. 

 Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (b. 1877) of New York, first 

 Secretary of the American Embassy at Mexico City, 

 named U.S. minister to Ecuador. Wm. J. Flynn (former- 

 ly deputy commissioner of police in New York City) 

 appointed chief of the U.S. Secret Service as successor to 

 John E. Wilkie. Federal Grand Jury at Chicago indicts 

 John Carstensen, vice-president of the New York Central 

 Railroad, for alleged rebating (see Nov. 22). 



18. Marquis di San Giuliano speaks in Italian Chamber 

 on beneficial economic effect of Triple Alliance, and sug- 



