The Bonomi Cabinet in Italy again fails, as the Chamber votes 209 to 107 against it; only the Populists and Reformists support the Premier, who resigns a second time. February 22.-At Dublin, 3000 Sinn Feiners agree to a truce for three months between the Treaty Party of Griffith and Collins and the Republican Party of De Valera; elections are to be held in three months for Irish Parliament and treaty referendum; Provisional Government (Griffith) will function as the executive and Dail Eireann (De Valera) as the legislative branch, each remaining in power, neither able to curtail the other. In British India, 160 prisoners are released from Faridpur jail upon signing certain promises; they were arrested for non-coöperationist activities. February 23.-In Tokio, with rioting outside, the Japanese Diet defeats the universal suffrage bill, 288 to 150. Sir Eric Geddes resigns from Parliament to resume business life; as head of the Economy Committee he recently suggested savings of £75,000,000. February 24.-Canada's population statistics are announced for 1921; they show an increase of 20 per cent. over 1911, with a total of 8,772,631 persons now in the Dominion. February 25.-The Italian Cabinet is reformed by Luigi Facta, with Signor Schanzer as Foreign Minister. The Lloyd George government loses its third by-election within a week; there have been sixtyfour by-elections, of which the Coalition majority has held only thirty-three, Labor and Independent Liberals gaining. February 28.-At London, Princess Maryonly daughter of King George and Queen Mary -is married to Viscount Lascelles. Field Marshal Allenby, British High Commissioner in Egypt, proclaims the abolition of the British protectorate and restoration of Egyptian sovereignty and independence; status quo is preserved provisionally on defense, security of communications, and protection of foreigners and the Sudan. March 1.-An Egyptian Cabinet is formed by Abdel Khalek Sarvat Pasha. March 2.-Lady Rhondda becomes the first woman to sit in the British House of Lords, succeeding to her father's seat under a construction of a women's political enabling act of 1919. Sir Robert Horne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, informs the House of Commons that the Washington Conference agreements will save £10,000,000 to British taxpayers in the forthcoming financial year. March 3.-Arthur J. Balfour, head of Britain's delegation at the Washington Conference, is knighted by King George with the Order of the Garter. March 5.-Limerick is seized by 400 Irish Republican armed sympathizers of De Valera, who order Free State forces to leave; British troops police the town. March 8.-Edwin S. Montagu, Secretary for India, publishes at London a dispatch from Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, imploring revision of HON. CHARLES A. RAWSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, WHO HAS TAKEN MR. KENYON'S SEAT IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE (Mr. Rawson is a business man of the highest type, and a graduate of the college at Grinnell, of which, like Senator Cummins, he is also a trustee. He has been active as a Republican, Chairman of the State Committee, and manager of Senator Kenyon's campaigns. It is announced that in accepting the present appointment he does not intend to be a candidate at the polls this year, when a permanent successor to Senator Kenyon will be chosen) the Sevres treaty with Turkey to alleviate Mohammedan unrest in India; a conference on the Near East was to have been held March 22 at Paris between British, French, and Italians. The House of Commons passes the Irish Free State bill, 295 to 52, without amendment. March 9.-Secretary Montagu is asked by Premier Lloyd George to resign. The Washington Conference agreements are presented to the Canadian Parliament for ratification. The Government of the Union of South Africa mobilizes horse, foot, and artillery, to reinforce police in quelling disorders arising from a strike of gold miners on the Rand; natives are arming to repel attacks of strikers. March 10.-Mahondas K. Gandhi, leader of a non-coöperative revolution in India, is arrested at Ahmedabad, 300 miles north of Bombay. March 11.-Italian reports indicate a serious revolution in Tripoli; the railroad is cut, Aziza is isolated, and Chater and Zavia are abandoned by Italian troops. An aviator bombs gold mine strikers near Johannesburg in the South African disorders; a Scotch detachment is ambushed; 600 casualties have occurred, with 80 killed. Irish factions at Limerick reach an agreement; Republican and Free State troops march out side by side; a British garrison stays in the barracks. March 12.-In South Africa, vigorous fighting occurs between gold mine strikers (said to be "Reds") and police, reinforced by troops and airplanes; 1500 are captured. Michael Collins faces "heckling" at Cork, speaking uncompromisingly for the Free State in face of shots, jeers, and cries of "traitor"; he calls the Republicans fools and madmen who would ruin Ireland if they had their way. The Greek Premier, Demetrios Gounaris, loses a vote of confidence, 161 to 156, on Allied mediation with Turkey, to which he had consented; Nicholas Stratos is charged by King Constantine with forming a new ministry. In Albania, revolutionists occupy Tirana, the capital; the Government moves to Elbassan, south of Scutari; Zugliedi and Ilsuddusek head the revolt, against Ahmed Zagoli. March 13.-In the House of Commons it is announced that the army appropriation for the coming year will be £62,300,000, compared with £93,714,000 last year; the navy appropriation is £17,595,000 less than for 1921-22. March 14.-The House of Commons approves the Egyptian policy, 202 to 70. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS February 11.-The Yap treaty is signed by Secretary Hughes and Japanese Ambassador Shidehara at Washington and is sent to the President. February 15.-The Permanent Court of International Justice is opened at The Hague. February 20.-The first corn of the $20,000,000 worth authorized by the American Congress for Russian Relief is received on the Volga; eleven trains are loaded for Ufa, Orenburg, Samara, and Saratov. February 25.-Premier Lloyd George confers with the new French Premier, Poincaré, at Boulougne; it is agreed that the proposed economic conference will be held April 10 at Genoa. March 2.-Final ratifications of the United States treaty with Colombia. Washington sets April 26 as the date for Chile and Peru to discuss fulfillment of the treaty of Ancon, covering the Tacna-Arica dispute, now near settlement after thirty years. March 3.-At Fiume,, Italian Fascisti riot and oust Signor Zanella, President of the Free State of Fiume. March 6.-President Harding prohibits exports of arms from the United States to China, under Congressional resolution of January 31, 1921. March 7.-American marines, court-martialed for disorders at Managua, Nicaragua, are sentenced to long prison terms and the garrison is changed. March 8.-The United States declines to participate in the Genoa Conference, in a note by Secretary Hughes which criticizes the proposed discussion as political rather than economic. March 11.-Allied ministers of finance at Paris defer decision on the renewed American claim for $241,000,000 for Rhine occupation by United States troops; but they divide among themselves the first billion marks paid by Germany; Britain gets 500,000,000; France 140,000,000; Italy 30,000,000, and Belgium the remainder. OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH February 13.-The Institute for Public Service announces results of its annual history test among 200,000 high school and college students; only 20,000 average 46 per cent. on "street corner" and sports topics, but improvement is shown in knowledge of current history and events. February 15.-Secretary of State Hughes sails for Bermuda on a two weeks' vacation. February 17.-In China, 6,000,000 people face starvation due to floods destroying 20 per cent. of the rice crop in the provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang, and Anhwei, where there was famine in 1921. February 18.-At Washington, D. C., seven theaters are closed, including two "legitimate" houses, because of structural weaknesses discovered as a result of the theater collapse last month. The United Mine Workers' wage convention at Indianapolis adjourns after defeating Alexander Howatt and electing John L. Lewis international president; it votes a wage demand on the present scale, with a six-hour day and a five-day week in bituminous mines. February 19.-Income returns for 1919 show five persons with an income of $5,000,000 that year and sixty-five with incomes of $1,000,000 or over; 5,332,760 persons paid taxes on their incomes. February 20.-Anthracite coal mine operators announce assent to meet miners to discuss a new wage contract to replace that expiring March 31. February 21.-The Army dirigible Roma (recently purchased from Italy) crashes in flames near Hampton Roads, Va.; 34 of the crew are killed, 11 survive; the vessel was alighting after trouble with its rudder, and came in contact with high voltage wires that caused an explosion of its gas bag. The death rate for the United States, it is announced, decreased from 14.9 per thousand in 1910 to 13 per thousand in 1920. of 2,000,000 February 22.-Representatives union coal miners, railroad men, and longshoremen form an alliance at Chicago; the plan is not effective till ratified by the various local unions. The Aeronautical Research Committee in England reports its findings on the ZR-2 (R-38) airship disaster, stating that "in the stress calculations which were made by the (English) design staff, the airship was assumed throughout to be in the static bouyant condition; the stresses which would be imposed due to the additional air pressures when in flight were not calculated." The twelve-year dispute between New York newspaper publishers and union pressmen is settled by arbitration of Judge Martin T. Manton, under agreement by both sides in advance to be bound by his decision. February 23.-At Washington, D. C., leaders of the American Bar Associations advocate more exacting requirements in education of applicants through academic courses as well as improved technical instruction. March 2.-The Census Bureau announces that New York City, with a total population of 6,000,000, has 2,786,112 foreign-born residents, of whom 1,153,813 are naturalized citizens. March 7.-The second annual radio show opens at New York City; 2000 persons are turned away for lack of accommodation. March 8.-The Norwegian freighter Grontoft founders in midocean in a terrific gale with all hands lost; an unknown wireless operator shows heroic disregard for death, sending wireless bulletins until the ship plunges to the bottom. March 12.-At Union City, Ga., a train wreck kills seven and injures sixteen persons. March 14.-Tornadoes sweep Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, killing and injuring many persons. OBITUARY February 13.-Luigi Denza, composer of the opera "Funicoli Funicola," 76. February 15.-Dr. James Martin Peebles, physician and author, 100. February 16.-Bishop John Edward Robinson, Methodist missionary to India and Burmah from the United States, 73. . . . Benjamin F. Buck, New York book publisher, 57. February 17.-Francis Cornelius Drake, general art director of the New York World, organizer of the American Liberties League, 50. February 20.-John Franklin Shafroth, former Governor and twice United States Senator (Dem.) from Colorado, 67. . . . A. H. Taylor, Congressman from Indiana from 1892 to 1894, Rear Adm. James Dexter Adams, U. S. N., retired, 73. . . . Rear Adm. John Van Benthuysen Bleecker, U. S. N., retired, 74. 74.. February 21.- Richard Gilder CholmeleyJones, former Director of the War Risk Insurance Bureau, who reorganized and made efficient this great veterans' relief work, 38. February 24.-Viscount Lewis Harcourt, former British Secretary of State for Colonies from 1910 to 1915, 59. . . . Dr. Orland Faulkland Lewis, sociologist, 49. February 26.-Samuel Peter Orth, Cornell professor of political science, 49. February 27-Bernard Walter Evans, British landscape painter, 78. March 1.-Dr. George Harris, president emeritus of Amherst College, author of religious works, 77. . . . Dr. Frank Byrnes, well-known Chicago surgeon, 59. . . . Dr. John Caspar Branner, president emeritus of Stanford University, geologist, 72. March 2.-Henri Bataille, noted French playwright, 50... . Major J. B. Thomas, president of Imperial War Veterans of Canada, 58. March 3.-Joseph Rhode Grismer, actor, playwright, and manager, 73. . . . James Henry Ottley, for many years publisher of McCall's Magazine, 70. Dr. James Woods Babcock, of Columbia, S. C., pellagra specialist and alienist, 65. . March 4.-Bert Williams, negro comedian, 46. March 6.-Henry De Witt Hotchkiss, New York THE LATE COLONEL R. G. CHOLMELEY-JONES, OF (Richard G. Cholmeley-Jones, who died in New York February 21, was one of the men whose capacity for unselfish service and whose genius for the direction of organized effort on a large scale were tested to the utmost during the exigencies of the war. For many years he had been an important member of the business staff of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS. Heart trouble prevented his entering the fighting services, and he became the most active man abroad in carrying on the business of soldiers' insurance. Soon after his retirement from the army he was summoned to Washington to become the head of the War Risk Bureau. Under him was the largest number of employees in any of the Washington services; and by indefatigable effort the vast business of the Bureau was made systematic and efficient. Early in the present Administration Col. Cholmeley-Jones returned to business life in New York; but his labors for the soldiers and their dependents had so exhausted his vitality that he succumbed to an illness which probably would not otherwise have shortened his life. Many pages would be needed to do justice to his noble qualities and to his career of useful service) Supreme Court Justice, 66. . . . Col. John Lambert, steel merchant, 75. March 7.-Edgar H. Cottrell, who developed the rotary press for printing magazines, 72. March 8.-Col. John Page Nicholson, of Philadelphia, Pa., chairman of Gettysburg National Park Commission, 79. . . . Gen. Benjamin Lefevre, of Ohio, lawyer and former Congressman, 84. March 9.-William H. Remick, recently president of the New York Stock Exchange, 56. March 11.-Dr. Charles William Waidner, chief physicist of the Bureau of Standards, 49. ... Robert John Wynne, Postmaster General in 1905 under President Roosevelt, 71... Charles A. Barcher, publisher and editor of the American Commercial Traveler. March 12.-Harrie Irving Hancock, author and chemist, 54. March 13.-James Stuart MacKie, railroad financier, 67. Prof. Boynton Wells McFarland, of the chemistry department of Yale, 54. |