April 25.— Admiral Nebogatoff, in command of the second Russian Pacific squadron, reaches the China Sea to join forces with Rojestvensky. The Russian General Staff gives the losses in the battle of Mukden, from February 19 to March 19, as two generals, 1,985 staff and other officers, 87,677 men, of whom the greater number were wounded; thirty-two guns and no siege artillery or ammunition carts. April 26.—Rojestvensky cuts the Hainan cable to conceal his movements. April 27.—Rojestvensky’s fleet drawn up outside Kamranh Bay, awaiting the arrival of Nebogatoff’s division of the Russian Pacific squadron. May 6.—Marshal Oyama extends his lines on the Russian right wing. Russian torpedo boat destroyers sink a Japanese sailing vessel. _General Foreign News_ April 8.—Four hundred persons are killed or wounded by the collapse of a reservoir in Madrid, Spain. The Newfoundland Lower House passes a bill to exclude American vessels from Newfoundland fisheries. April 9.—The estimated number of lives lost in the earthquake in India is 15,000. April 10.—Joseph H. Choate, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, has been elected a “Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple.” April 11.—Captain Volpert, of the French army, has been arrested, charged with complicity in a military plot to overthrow the present regime. Baron de Constant makes a speech in the French Senate in favor of international military and naval disarmament. Russian lawyers pass resolutions favoring a constitution and universal suffrage. April 12.—A congress of lawyers held at St. Petersburg sets on foot a movement to democratize the Russian Government. Under the terms of a commercial treaty being negotiated between Germany and Morocco, it is said Germany will gain the most favored nation guarantees in Morocco. April 13.—The Premier of Newfoundland inserts a clause in the anti-American fishing bill reserving the power of suspension. This was done on account of the pending Bond-Hay treaty. All but one nation have accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to a second peace conference. April 14.—The body of Admiral John Paul Jones is unearthed in Paris. Czar of Russia consents to consider a savings bank and land purchase scheme for the peasants. The workers in the porcelain factories at Limoges, France, have decided to strike. The factories are owned by Americans, and they have raised the American flag over the factories to protect their property. April 15.—The French Chamber of Deputies adopts final clause of second section of bill separating state and church. April 16.—General strike on all railroads in Italy. Henry White, the new Ambassador to Italy, is received by King Victor Emmanuel. Laborers on sugar plantations in Porto Rico strike.