Reviru of Ketieirg, 20,2/06. 



DAY BY DAY. 



A CHRONOLOGICAL DIARY OF THE EVENTS OF THE WORLD. 



January 8. — A huge number of arrests are being 

 made by the Russian Government ... The Russian 

 Liberal organs unanimously declare that Admiral 

 Dubasoff permitted wanton -laughter by the troops ... 

 The now Liberal Government states its intention of 

 supporting France at the Morocco Conference; 

 America -tat,-- that her interests will require con- 

 sideration at this Conference also ... A new Coalition 

 Cabinet is formed in Japan, with Marquis Saionji as 

 Four hundred British war ships will bake 

 naval demonstration in the East in June 



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9. — Japanese foreign trade Bhows a steady 



The Kaiser issues a mandate to the Roman 



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increase ... 



Catholic Archbishop of Posen, urging him to 



teract revolutionary ideas by propagating the 



ciples ot the Christian faith. 



January 10. America is preparing to send 

 troops to the Philippines in consequence of the 



pendence lately displayed by China ... The Japanese 

 Government is sending sixty Consuls to Europe, the 

 United States. Canada ami India ... It is reported 



that live American battleships became tangled up in 

 New York Bay. with the result that four were badly 



damaged. 



January 11. — One hundred lives are lost by an ex- 

 plosion in a mine in Japan ... Mts. Etna and Vesuvius 

 are in violent eruption ... The death is announced of 

 Lord Ritchie at the age of 07 years ... The Tsar's life 

 is reported to be in danger, and extra precautious 

 are taken to safeguard him at the palace of Tsarskoe- 

 selo ... M. Fallieres is considered the probable suc- 

 cessor to President Louhet ... Japan issues State 

 bonds for 643,000,000 ... China withdraws a railway 

 concession to England ... -Mr. 

 the President of a company 

 £6,000,000 to exploit the rubbei 



January 12. — The Russian 

 that if the 22nd January (Red 

 out serious disturbances, the repressive 

 be suspended on the following day 



Rockefeller, junr., is 

 with a capital ol 

 industry in Mexico. 



aut hoiit ies announce 

 Sunday l pass,. s « it 1 1- 

 measures will 

 A sanguinary 

 fight takes place between mutinous soldiers ar.d Cos- 

 sacks in Eastern Siberia ... Some anxiety is felt re- 

 garding the position between Germany and France; 

 German residents in Denmark and Switzerland, who 

 are liable for military service, have been ordered to 

 hold themselves in readiness to return to Germany ... 

 Lord Rothschild expresses contrary views with regard 

 to a Commission to inquire into the working of the 

 Life Insurance Act 1870. 



January 13. — The revolution in Russia is quieten- 

 ing, and the announcement is made that the Tsars 

 manifesto of October in no way affects the status of 

 the autocracy ... In view of the relations between 

 France and Germany, the Rouvier Government is in- 

 troducing a Bill authorising the Bank of France to 

 issue bank notes for an additional £32.000,000 ... 

 Great excitement is caused in the United States by 

 the discovery of a goldfield in Nevada ... Prince 

 Arthur of Connaught sails for Japan, where he is to 

 invest the Mikado with the insignia and Order of the 

 Garter ... The secret Treaty between China and Japan 

 merely pledges China not to allow any other power 

 to interfere with the Manchurian railways ... Japan 

 undertakes the construction in their own vards of a 

 battleship of 20.000 tons. 



January 15. — Mr. Balfour. Prime Minister of Eng- 

 land, is defeated by a majority of 1980 votes ... The 

 action of the French bankers in granting Russia a 

 loan of £'10,666.000 alarms the Russian reformers; 

 the Russian Imperial Hank will issue additional notes 

 to the value of {.To. 000. 000 ... Relations between 

 Fiance and Venezuela are ruptured over President 

 io's ignoring M. Taigny, the French Consul at 

 Caracas, in connection with claims arising out of 

 Venezuelan insurrection ... The kidnapping incident 

 between Germany and Brazil is revived owing to the 

 Brazilian authorities not being satisfied with Ger- 

 many's apology, and with their having taken Stein- 

 hotf in spite of the apology. 



January 10.- A French architect is robbed of securi- 

 ties valued at £14,000, and is murdered when travel- 

 ling by rail to Lyons ... The Italian Government de- 

 c iles to devote £12,200 annually for the maintenance 

 of French religious orders abroad ... An American 

 anarchist is arrested at Constantinople on a charge 

 ot intending to complete th" late attempt on the life 

 of the Sultan ... Germany succeeds in undercutting 

 British firms in the tender over the supply of car- 

 .s tor the Metropolitan Railway Company ... A 

 banquet is held in London with the obiect oi promot- 

 ing the friendly feeling between England and Ger- 

 many ... It is estimated that I'ii-mh'- outlay for the 

 current financial year is £52,000,000 above that of last 

 year ... The Marquis of Linlithgow is thrown from his 

 horse and injured. 



January 17. A pitched battle takes place between 

 Russian troops and revolutionaries at Krasnoyarsk on 

 the Yenesei ... The Tsar instructs the .Metropolitans 

 of the Orthodox Church to convoke an extraordinary 

 national council for the settlement ot ecclesiastical 

 affairs ... Prince Philip of Coburg and Princess Louise 

 have been formally divorced ... The demonstration 

 held in the Sydney Town Hall in favour ot Secession 



is a failn r< ■ • 



January 18. — A congress ( ,t delegates from the 

 branches of the Russian Feasants' Union, held in Fin- 

 land, decides to boycott the Douma. Seventeen of 

 the delegates are afterwards arrested at St. Peters- 

 burg ... The International Conference to enquire into 

 the Morocco reforms meets at Algeciras ... The death 

 is announced of Mr. Marshall Field in Chicago; he 

 leaves £To,000,000. 



January 19. M. Fallieres is elected President of 

 France in succession to M. Loubet ... The British Ad- 

 miralty surveys the waters surrounding Labuan with 

 the intention of establishing a naval sub-base there ... 

 The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive at Mandalay 

 ... General Lizovsky is assassinated in Russia ... 

 It is stated that the Panama Canal can not be car- 

 ried out by white labour ... The Norwegian barque, 

 •• Coimbatore.'' is posted at Lloyd's as lost. 



January 20. — China refuses to sign the Thibetan 

 Treaty ... The breach between France and Venezuela 

 widens; President Castro expels the chief officials of 

 the French Cable Company from Venezuela ... H.R.H. 

 the Duchess of Connatmht is robbed of jewellery 

 valued at £500 ... The Victorian loan of £.513.200 is 

 placed before the public for conversion ... Rioting and 

 pillage take place in Hamburg in consequence of an 

 attempted infringement of the rights which the 

 burghers possess in one of the free cities of the Ger- 



