April 17.—Plans for the extension of zemstvo governments to Siberia and Finland have been inaugurated by the Czar of Russia. April 18.—Negotiations begun for new treaty between Germany and China. Fights between strikers and soldiers at Limoges, France. Three strikers killed and ninety-eight soldiers wounded. Troops fire on Italian railway strikers, killing three and wounding many. Russian Government gives large order for American submarine boats. Kaleieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, sentenced to death. Among a band of Terrorists arrested in St. Petersburg is a niece of Governor-General Trepoff. She recently fired two shots at her uncle. Riot in San Juan, Porto Rico, between strikers and police. April 19.—Italian Chamber of Deputies adopts a bill providing for government control of all railroads in Italy. April 21.—The Italian Government promises reforms in railroad management and the strikers return to work. April 22.—The Emperor and Empress of Germany, on the imperial yacht _Hohenzollern_, are cruising in the Adriatic. It is reported that the Emperor is in very bad health. April 23.—Pope Pius X celebrates full mass before a large congregation. The Emperor of Germany delivers Easter sermon on the imperial yacht. April 24.—On memorial of Wu Ting Fang, ex-Minister to United States, imperial edict makes sweeping reforms in Chinese criminal code. April 25.—The Sultan’s troops have been defeated by the Arabs at Aden. At Barisoff 2,000 Russian soldiers mutiny, smashing Red Cross cars and pillaging shops. April 26.—Charles M. Schwab is awarded contract to rebuild the Russian navy. Many guns on British warships found to be worthless. Germany ready to begin negotiations with the United States for a new commercial treaty based on reciprocity. April 27.—General Kolzoff appointed Governor-General of Moscow. April 28.—Encounter between insurgents and gendarmes in the province of Kissamos excites Crete. In the Cuban Senate President Palma discloses the fact that the United States had intervened in behalf of American firms with whom contracts had been made for sanitary work on the island. May 3.—Trouble continues throughout Poland. May 4.—In Warsaw the Socialists enforce the observance of a day of mourning for the victims of the May Day riots. Cossacks fire on people attending Roman Catholic Church at Lodz, killing seven persons. May 5.—Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador to England, is given a farewell dinner at the Mansion House in London. Zemstvo Congress opens in St. Petersburg. May 6.—A plot discovered in Madrid, Spain, to make an independent state out of the territory of Cunani, Brazil. Police break up congress of engineers in St. Petersburg. May 7.—Tokio papers make bitter attack on France, alleging that France is violating her pledges of neutrality.