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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
Vol. VIII. No. 91. 
[July, 1902.] 
prohibiting the killing of fur seals before the opening of the 
pelagic season,— 24th : Great sympathy was expressed at the 
news of the King’s illness. 
Cape Colony.— 1st : The news of the conclusion of Peace 
was received with great satisfaction. — 5th : Commandant Pouch t’ 
and many other Boers surrendered. — 7th : A mass meeting was 
held in Cape Town to support the Imperial policy, and to 
advocate the suspension of the Constitution. — 9th: Tt was 
notified that the colonial forces would be subject to the Army 
Act for three months, as if on active service. — 18th: Arrange- 
ments were made for the return of the troops to England. 
25,000 signatures were attached to a petition for the suspension 
of the Constitution. — 23rd: — Lord Kitchener left Cape Town 
for England, — 26th : Another commando surrendered at 
Beaufort West. Over 15,000 persons in Cape Town and 
vicinity signed the petition for the suspension of the Constitu- 
tion. 
Malta. — 24th : All festivities were postponed on the news 
of the King's illness being received. 
Natal. — 1st : News of the conclusion of Peace w r as an- 
nounced. — 27th : The Canadian and Australian troops sailed 
from Durban. 
Newfoundland. — nth : The French fisheries on the Great 
Banks proved a conmlete failure. 
Orange River Colony.— 23rd : Lord Milner became 
Governor of the Colony, and Major Goojd-Adams Lieutenant- 
Governor. 
St. Helena. — 3rd : The news of Peace was received by the 
Boer prisoners with great rejoicings. — 27th : 478 Boer prisoners 
left for South Africa. 
Transvaal. — 1st : The Boer Convention at Vereeniging 
decided to accept the British terms of Peace. — 3rd : Lord 
Kitchener congratulated the Boers on their decision, and welcomed 
them as citizens of the British Empire. — 7th : Many surrenders 
of Boers took place. — 8th : Thanksgiving services were held for 
the restoration of Peace. — 10th : A law imposing a tax of 10 per 
cent, on the net produce of the mines was issued. — nth : General 
Lyttelton left Natal for the Transvaal to take over the chief 
military command in South Africa. The Boer surrenders 
numbered 10,225. — 14th: Lord Milner arrived in Pretoria. — 
17th : Lord Kitchener highly complimented the Boer leaders on 
their courage and energy. — 18th : The surrenders numbered 
18,400. Lord Kitchener was entertained at a banquet at Johan- 
nesburg. — 21st: Lord Milner became Governor. 
INDIA. 
2nd : The number of persons on famine relief increased to 
485,000.— 6th : The Legislative Council passed the Sugar 
Duties Bill imposing countervailing duties on German and 
Austrian sugar. — 13th : Mr. G. S. Idenderson was appointed a 
judge of the High Court at Calcutta. — 14th : The total on famine 
relief was 475,000.— 25th : The number of persons on famine 
relief decreased by 16,000. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Abyssinia. — 1st : An agreement delimiting the boundary 
between British Sudan and Abyssinia was concluded. 
Argentine Republic. — 28th : The Senate approved the 
ratification of the recent agreements with Chile. 
Belgium. — 12th : The Second Chamber adjourned after 
adopting the cable convention with Germany.— 23rd : The 
Count ot Flanders resigned his army appointments. — 22nd ; 
The population of Belgium, according to the corrected returns 
of the recent census was stated to be 6,693,000. 
Chile. — 1st : 1 he details of the agreement with Argentina 
were published. — 21st : l lie Senate ratified the agreement with 
Argentina. 
China. — 6tn : The Dowager Empress and the Emperor 
received the Grand Duke Vladimirov! tch at the Palace in 
Peking, — 7th : A proposal for a 5 per cent, duty payable in 
gold was withdrawn by Sheng. — 10th : Arrangements were 
made for commencing the Canton- Hankau railway. — 17th : 
The strength of the German contingent in China was reduced 
to 3,300 men. — 26th : The Russian evacuation of Manchuria 
commenced. — 28th : Cholera broke out in Peking. 
Colombia. — 24th : Peace was restored, and a general am- 
nesty proclaimed. 
Crete.— nth: Prince George left Suda for London to 
attend the Coronation. 
France. — 1st : I he new Chamber of Deputies met. — 3rd: 
M. Waldeck Rousseau tendered the resignation of the Ministry, 
which was accepted. —6th : M. Bourgeois was elected President 
of the Chamber. — 7th ; A new Cabinet was formed, with 
M. Combes as Premier and Minister of the Interior and Public 
Worship.— nth : The annual general meeting of the Suez Canal 
Company was held, — 12th : A vote of confidence in the Ministry 
was passed in the Chamber.— 14th : A brilliant fete took place 
at the British Embassy. 
German West Airica. — 20th: The railway from Swakop- 
mund to Windhoek, 380 kilometres, was opened. 
Germany. — 7th : The second reading of the Bill for the 
abolition of the “dictatorship" paragraph in Alsace-Lorraine 
was carried in the Reichstag.— 9th : The Reichstag accepted 
the Brussels Sugar Convention. — 10th : The Sugar Bill was 
read a second time in the Reichstag. — 16th : The Emperor and 
Empress were present at the jubilee festival of the Germania 
Museum at Nuremburg.— 18th : An International Trade Union 
Congress was held at Stuttgart.— 23rd : Her von Thielen, 
Prussian Minister of Public Works, resigned, and was succeeded 
by Major-General Budde. — 26th : The Emperor placed King 
Edward a la. suite of the German Navy.— 28th : It was an- 
nounced that the triple alliance between Germany, Austria- 
Hungary and Italy had been renewed. 
Holland. — 3rd : The Boer delegates had a conference with 
Mr. Kruger at Utrecht.— 6th : The Second Chamber passed a 
Bill authorising the subsidy of a monthly service of steamers 
under the Dutch flag between Java, China, and Japan. 
Italy. — 6th : The Chamber adopted a Bill sanctioning the 
construction of an aqueduct from the Apennines throughout the 
province of Apulia, at a cost of ^£8, 000,000. 
Martinique. — 6th : Another eruption of Mount Pelde took 
place. 
Mexico. 16th : 1 he death of General Escobedo was 
announced. 
Philippines. — 20th : The cost of the war to date was 
stated to be $170,326,586, — 27th : The House of Representatives, 
at Washington, passed the Philippines Civil Government Bill. 
A proclamation of amnesty for all political prisoners, including 
Aguinaldo, was issued, to take effect from July 1. 
Portugal. — Sir M. Gosselin was appointed British Minister 
at Lisbon. 
Spain.- — 5th : A new five per cent, loan of 338,400,000 pesetas 
was issued. 
Sweden.— 28th : The Ministry resigned. 
Switzerland : The Museum of War and Peace, founded by 
the late M. Bloch, was opened at Lucerne. 
Tunis.— nth : Death of the Bey Ali, 
Turkey. — 2nd : The negotiations between the Oriental and 
Anatolian Railways respecting a through traffic were broken off. 
— 5th: Fuad Pasha was sentenced to imprisonment for life, — 
28th : Mgr. Firmilian was consecrated as Bishop of Uskub. 
United States. — 4th : The Hon. M. Herbert was appointed 
British Ambassadorat Washington. — 9th : The House of Repre- 
sentatives passed the Anti-Anarchist Bill.— 13th : President 
Roosevelt strongly urged Congress to concede reciprocity to 
Cuba. — 14th : The Shipbuilding Trust purchased the under- 
taking of the Bethlehem Company. — 26th: The House of 
Representatives adopted Mr. Spooner’s Bill for the purchase of 
the Panama Canal. 
Venezuela. — 7th: The revolutionists were repulsed in an 
attack on La Guaira : the French Cable and telegraph wires 
were cut, 
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
London. — On the 3rd inst. an Australian Festival will 
be held at the People's Palace. — On the 5th inst. the King’s 
Coronation Dinner to tiie Poor will take place. — The 
National Indian Association will hold a Reception at 
the Imperial Institute on the 7th. 'The 7th inst. is fixed for the 
annual visit of the Lords of the Admiralty to Devonport. — A 
Banquet to Lord Roberts by graduates of the Irish Universities 
will be held on the 8th inst. On the same evening the annual 
dinner of the Hardwick Society will be held, "the Colonial 
Representatives being special guests. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Austria Hungary.— Fishery Exhibition in Vienna. — 
An International Fishery Exhibition is to be held from 
September 6 to 21 in Prince Schwarzenberg's grounds in 
Vienna, under the patronage of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand 
of Austria-Este. The exhibition is intended to give a picture of 
the development and present conditions of fisheries from the 
point of view of the trader, the naturalist, and the sportsman, 
The flora of seas, rivers, and lakes will also be dealt with, and 
there will be a section devoted to the literature of the subject. 
Great Britain is represented on the committee by Dr. Fulton. 
Director of the Royal Fishery Board for Scotland. Intending 
exhibitors should apply to the British Consul-General in 
Vienna. 
Belgium. — International Exhibition in Brussels. — 
The Brussels Correspondent of the Times writes, under date 
June 17 : — " A movement is on foot for holding an International 
Exhibition in Brussels in 1907. Although due to private enter- 
prise, the undertaking would receive Government support as on 
the occasion of the last exhibition in 1897, and is projected on 
a far more extensive scale. The date has been fixed so as to 
allow an interval of a decade to elapse since the last World's 
Fair in Brussels ; and it will also afford sufficient time for com- 
pleting the new chain of outer-circle boulevards and other 
improvements now in progress." 
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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. 
NAVAL. 
The Astrcta, cruiser, Captain C. J. Baker, was paid out of 
commission at Chatham on the 12th ult. 
Rear-Admiral W, H. Henderson has been appointed 
Admiral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, to date 
July 1. 
The Medusa , cruiser, refitting at Jarrow-on-Tyne, is to be 
placed at the disposal of the special boiler committee for 
experimental purposes. 
The Doris, cruiser, was commissioned at Devonport on the 
4U1 ult., by the ship’s company of the Arrogant, cruiser, paid 
off on the previous day. 
The Dryad, torpedo-gunboat, Lieut. -Commander C. P. R. 
Coode, has been lent from the Mediterranean to the East Indies 
Squadrou for special service in the Gulf of Aden. 
The Admiralty has contracted for the new sloop, Clio, now 
being built at Sheerness, to be fitted with Niclausse water-tube 
boilers. 
Rear-Admiral the Hon. A. G. Curzon-IIowe, C.B., hoisted 
his flag on the 5th ult. in the Cambridge, gunnery ship, at 
Devonport, as second in command of the Channel Squadron. 
The Dreadnought, battleship, is to be fitted at Chatham, 
for service as tender to the Defiance, torpedo school ship at 
Devonport. It is estimated that the work will cost 765,000. 
Another submarine, the fifth built for the Navy by Messrs. 
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, was launched on the 10th ult. at 
Barrow. A specially large submarine, 100 ft. long, is now on 
the stocks. 
The Ariadne, cruiser, was commissioned at Portsmouth on 
the 5th ult. , by Captain M. E. Browning, as flagship of Vice- 
Admiral A. L. Douglas, the new Commander-in-Chief on the 
North America and West Indies Station. 
The Retribution, cruiser, was commissioned at Devonport 
on the 5th ult., by Captain H. Lyon to relieve the Psyche, 
cruiser, Commander E. M. C. Cooper-Key, on the North 
America and West Indies Station. 
The Pantome, sloop, was commissioned at Sheerness 
Dockyard on the 5th ult., by Commander Hugh T. Hibbert, 
with a complement of 1 13 officers and men for service on the 
North America and West Indies Station. 
The Admiralty has given instructions for the 6-in. and 4 7- 
in. gun mountings to be removed from the Dido and / sis at 
Chatham. Some of them are to be appropriated to the Furious, 
and the remainder will be sent to Portsmouth. 
Captain the lion. Hedworth Lambton, C. B. , Aide-de-Camp 
to His Majesty and Commodore commanding the Royal yacht, 
is to retain the command of the Victoria and Albert after his 
promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral. 
The twin-screw cruisers Isis and Dido, which have recently 
returned from abroad, are again to be brought forward for 
service. Both of these vessels were commissioned at Chatham 
on May 10, 1898, for the Mediterranean Station. 
The new cruiser Cornwall, at Pembroke Dock, is to be 
launched on October 29. She is of the Monmouth class, with a 
displacement of 9,300 tons. Her engines will be built by 
Messrs. Hawthorne, Leslie & Co. , Newcastle-on-Tync. 
Major-General William Purvis Wright, R.M.L.I., has been 
appointed Deputy-Adjutant-General of Royal Marines at the 
Admiralty, in succession to Major-General John I. Morris, 
R.M.L.I., from the 19th inst. 
Admiral Sir John Fisher has been read in at the Admiralty 
as Second Sea Lord, and entered upon his duties on the nth 
ult., in succession to Vice-Admiral A. L. Douglas, appointed 
Commander-in-Chief on the North America and the West Indies 
Station. 
The Scylla, cruiser, was commissioned by Captain S. Y. Y. 
de Horsey at Chatham on the 5th ult., with a care and main- 
tenance party, to convey a new crew to the Tribune, cruiser, 
Captain A. A. C. Galloway, which is recommissioning for 
further service on the North America and West Indies Station. 
The new second-class cruiser Encounter was launched on 
the 1 8th ult. This vessel, which is one of two cruisers 
provided for out of the naval estimates for 1900-01, is an 
improvement on the Highflyer class of second-class cruisers, 
of which there are three — i.e., die “ Highflyer," “ Hermes," and 
“ Hyacinth." 
The new first-class armoured cruiser King Alfred arrived 
at Portsmouth from Barrow-in-Furness, where she was built, on 
the 10th ult., and was at once taken into the dockyard basin to 
prepare for her steam trials. An average speed of 18 knots was 
made during the passage from Barrow to Portsmouth, although 
at times she worked up to 20 knots. 
The Exmouth, battleship, returned to Plymouth on the 
16th ult. after a 30 hours’ trial at four-fifths power. The results 
were: — speed, 18 knots; vacuum, 276 starboard, 27 port; 
revolutions per minute, ii3‘2 starboard, 112*8 port; i.h.p., 
6,934 starboard, 6,840 port — total, 13,774; coal consumption 
per i.h.p. per hour, r'95 lb. The engines worked smoothly 
throughout. 
The new Bermuda floating dock, which has been thoroughly 
examined since the battleship Sans Pareil was successfully 
docked in the structure, left Sheerness on the 16th ult., in tow, 
for the West Indies. The dock carried 600 tons of coal as a 
reserve supply for the Dutch tugs which have been chartered to 
take her to Bermuda. The dock is 545 ft. long, and the walls 
are 53 ft. 3 ms. high. It is capable of lifting a vessel of 17,500 
tons in weight and drawing 32 ft. of water. 
The Bedford, cruiser, returned to Plymouth on the comple- 
tion of two 30-hour steam trials off the Cornish coast. The 
mean results of the first trial with the engines working at low 
pressure, were as follows Steam at engines, 2381b.; in 
boilers, 2551b. ; vacuum — starboad 26'8 in., port 26*3 in. ; re- 
volutions — starboard 85, port 84 ; indicated horse-power — star- 
board 2,250, port 2,272 — total, 4,522 ; speed, 14*92 knots ; coal 
consumption, 1*91 lb. per i.h.p. per hour of the second trial. 
The mean results of the second trial were : — Steam in boilers, 
2461b. ; at engines, 222 lb. ; vacuum — starboard, 25*6 in. ; port 
27*1 in. ; indicated horse-power — starboard, 7,952, port 8,053 — 
total, 16,005; a > r pressure *26 of an inch; speed, 21*2 knots; 
coal consumption, 1*9716. per indicated horse-power per hour. 
The Admiralty has issued an abstract of returns of the 
prize firing from heavy guns in the Royal Navy during 1901. 
Once again the Terrible comes out at the top of the list, and the 
gunners of this mighty cruiser last year broke all previous records. 
From twelve of her 6-in. guns 128 rounds were fired, and no 
fewer than 102 hits were scored, thus giving a percentage of 
79*68 hits to rounds fired. The Terrible fired her rounds at the 
rate of 5*33 per minute, a faster rate than any other vessel that 
took part in the competition. With her 6-in. guns the Terrible 
made 4 '25 hits each minute. With her 9'2-in. guns she made 
fourteen hits in twenty-two minutes, giving a percentage of 
63 '63 hits to rounds fired, or 1*16 hits each minute. Next to 
the Terrible comes the Barfleur, also on the China Station. She 
fired 159 rounds from her 47-in. guns, and made 114 hits, giving 
percentage of 71*7 hits to rounds fired. 
France. — The names of the four battleships whose con- 
struction is to be commenced during the present year for the 
French navy are : — Democratic, I.iberM, Justice , and Verittf. 
One of these is to be built in the Government dockyard at 
Brest, and the others by private contract. In addition to these, 
two large armoured cruisers, to be named the Jules Michelet 
and Ernest Kenan, are to be laid down, the one at L'Orient 
and the other by a private firm. Of smaller vessels the French 
Government have authorised the construction this year of 
thirteen submarines, two destroyers, and sixteen torpedo-boats, 
the greater number of which arc to be built by contract. 
Germany.— Judging by the present state of the work of 
constructing the new German battleships of the Wittelsbach 
class, the Zdhringen, now being built in the Germania Yard, 
will be the first vessel of the new type to be completed next 
October, when it will undergo its trial trips, and it will be the 
only new battleship to be taken over for service by the Admiralty 
during 1902. The Wittelsbach, which was launched nearly 
twelve months before the Zdhringen, will probably not be ready 
nefore early next year. The Wittelsbach is to be the Squadron 
flagship, and accommodation is now being provided on it for 
the Squadron staff, which will number 65 officers. The first 
battleship of the improved “ I I ’’ class was launched on the 
13th ult., from the Germania Yard. 
Italy . — Tn the Naval Estimates for the coming financial 
year there is a slight increase in the allowance for ship-building. 
For the next five years some 29,000,000 lire (^£1, 160,000) per 
annum will be spent under this head, an increase of 6,169,000 
lire as compared with the past year. Of the 29,000,000 lire 
nearly 13,000,000 will be devoted to fitting out the battleships 
Benedetto Brin and Regina Margherita and the second-class 
cruiser Francesco Ferruccio, recently launched at Naples, 
Spezia, and Venice. A sum of 10,000,000 lire will be absorbed 
by the first-class battleships Vittorio Emanuele and Regina 
Elena, now building at Naples and at Spezia, while 1,700,000 
lire are assigned to cover the cost of placing three new battle- 
ships of the same type on the stocks at Castellamare, Spezia, 
and Venice. The smaller items include a credit of 800,000 lire 
for a submarine boat, a branch of naval enterprise in which 
Italy has remained behindhand for want of funds, although the 
old submarine Ddft.no, at Spezia, testifies to the fact that she 
was one of its pioneers. The Minister of Marines has decided 
to dispose of sixteen men-of-war, which are considered obsolete, 
and unfit for foreign service. They will be struck off the active 
list, and replaced by the vessels in course of construction, A 
new type of submarine is to be tested, and should it prove 
satisfactory eight of these vessels will be built. 
Russia. — The Kronstadtski Viesfnik states that the 
“Zakladka,” or formal ceremony of laying a plate, of the 
two new Russian cruisers Jzumrud and Jemdiug , building at 
the Nevski Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, St. Peters- 
burg, took place on June 14. The length of each cruiser will 
be 347 ft. 10 in. ; beam, 40 ft. ; draught with full load, 16 ft. ; 
displacement, 3,100 tons; number of boilers, 16 of the Jarrow 
type; engines, 17,000 h.-p. ; speed, 24 knots. 
United States. — The experiments now proceeding with oil 
fuel for the United States Navy have been so successful that 
Rear-Admiral Melville, who is supervising the tests, predicts 
that the Navy will abandon coal in favour of oil before his term 
of office has expired. His engineers have produced one-third 
more steam from standardised boiler oil than from the best coal. 
The chief difficulty in using oil is the forced draught existing in 
the fire boxes, which will not stand intense heat, but the experts 
are sanguine of circumventing this. Another drawback is the 
deafening noise of combustion. This is probably irremediable, 
but it is claimed that it would not signify in battle conditions, 
while ordinarily there is a natural draught which is not ex- 
cessively noisy. It is believed that several warships will be 
shortly fitted with the apparatus. It is proposed to fit out some 
of the vessels, which are to take part in the winter naval 
manoeuvres. If the new system can be successfully applied to 
warships, the United States Navy would be at an advantage 
over many other fleets, as the oil could betaken aboard by pipes 
direct from the seashore at several points. 
