CONTENTS.
| PART I. | |
|---|---|
| ENGLISH HISTORY. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| BEFORE THE SESSION. | |
| The Political Outlook: the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Armament Expenditure, [[1]], and the Liberal Programme, [[2]]. The Kikuyu Controversy, [[2]]. Labour Unrest, [[3]]. Mr. Chamberlain's Retirement, [[4]]. Views on Ulster, [[4]]. Mr. Bonar Law at Bristol, [[5]]. Sir Edward Carson at Belfast, [[6]]. Mr. Birrell on the Situation, [[7]]. The Armament Controversy, [[7]]. Position of Parties, [[8]]. Mr. Long on Urban Land Reform, [[8]]. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, [[9]]. Coal Porters' Strike, [[9]]. Other Labour Disputes, [[10]]. Militant Suffragists and the Bishop of London, [[10]]. Home Rule: Mr. Redmond at Waterford; Sir E. Carson at Lincoln, [[11]]. Other Speeches, [[12]]. Labour Leaders' Deportation from South Africa, [[12]]. North Durham Election, [[13]]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Glasgow, [[13]]. The Bootle Estate, [[15]]. Sir Edward Grey at Manchester, [[15]]. Meetings on Naval Expenditure, [[16]], Mr. Austen Chamberlain at Birmingham, [[16]]. The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Insurance Act, [[17]]. Mr. Redmond at the National Liberal Club, [[17]]. Other Utterances: Sir Horace Plunkett's Plan, [[18]]. Political Prospects, [[19]]. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE SESSION UNTIL EASTER. | |
| Opening of Parliament: the King's Speech, [[19]]. Opposition Amendment to the Address in the Commons, [[20]]; in the Lords, [[24]]. Labour Amendment on the South African Question, [[24]]; on Railway and Mining Accidents, [[26]]. Temperance Amendment, [[27]]. Ministerial Changes, [[27]]. Address: Amendment on Welsh Church Bill, [[27]]; on Tariff Reform, [[28]]; on Housing and the Land Agitation, [[29]]; on the Dublin Strike, [[30]]; on the Road Board, [[31]]; on Local Taxation, [[31]]; on Purity in Public Life, [[32]]. Statement by Lord Murray of Elibank: Committee Appointed, [[32]]. Home Rule Discussions and Suggestions, [[33]]. Bye-Elections, [[33]]. Opposition Resolutions on Home Rule and the Insurance Act, [[34]]. Titles and Party Funds, [[34]]. Labour and Militancy, [[34]]. Arrival of the South African Deportees, [[35]]. Leith Burghs Election, [[36]]. British Covenant, [[36]]. Supplementary Navy Estimates, [[36]]. Attack on the Insurance Act, [[38]]. Motion on Redistribution of Seats, [[38]], Home Rule: the Amending Bill and its Reception (March 9), [[39]]. Army Estimates, [[41]]. Debate, [[42]]. The Navy and Invasion, [[44]]. Territorial Forces Bill, [[45]]. Attack on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Inaccuracies, [[45]]. Navy Estimates, [[46]]. Debate, [[48]], Home Rule Crisis: Mr. Churchill at Bradford, [[52]]. Further Statement by Prime Minister, [[52]]. Vote of Censure, [[53]]. Expected Military Action in Ulster, [[55]]. Sir A. Paget in Dublin: Officers Object to Serve, [[56]]. Ministerial Explanations and Debate, [[57]]. Labour Views, [[59]]. Army Council's Minute, [[60]]. Naval Movements, and Further Explanations: Debates, [[60]]. Resignation of Sir John French and Sir J. S. Ewart, [[63]]. New Army Order, [[64]]. War Minister Resigns, Mr. Asquith Succeeding Him, [[64]]. Further Debates on the "Plot," [[65]]. The Arms Proclamation Invalidated, [[66]]. Royal Visit to Lancashire and Cheshire, [[66]]. Home Rule Bill: Resumed Debate, [[67]]. Hyde Park Demonstration, [[68]]. Mr. Asquith at Ladybank, [[68]]. Home Rule Bill Debate Concluded, [[69]]. Suffragist Outrages, [[71]]. Labour Troubles, [[72]]. Report on Urban Land Reform, [[72]]. Commons' Resolution on the South African Deportations, [[73]]. Minor Legislation, [[74]]. Colonel Seely at Ilkeston, [[75]]. The Ulster Appeal to Germany, [[75]]. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| FROM EASTER TO WHITSUNTIDE. | |
| Easter Conferences, [[76]]. Report on the Civil Service, [[76]]. The Session Resumed, [[77]]. The Dogs Bill, [[77]]. Proposal to Shorten Speeches, [[78]]. Housing in Ireland, [[78]]. Welsh Church Bill: Second Reading, [[78]]. Ulster Unionist Council on the "Plot," [[80]]. Demand for a Judicial Inquiry, [[82]]. Further White Paper, [[82]]. Army (Annual) Bill, [[82]]. Royal Visit to Paris, [[82]]. Plural Voting Bill, [[83]]. Gun-running into Ulster, [[84]]. Motion for Inquiry, [[85]]. Division, [[89]]. Army (Annual) Bill Passed, [[89]]. Lord Lansdowne at the Primrose League, [[89]]. Report on the Charges against Lord Murray, [[90]]. Post Office Estimates, [[91]]. Civil Service Estimates, [[91]]. Budget Introduced, [[93]]. Budget Tables, [[96]]. Reception of the Budget: Debate, [[97]]. Women's Enfranchisement Bill, [[99]]. Debates on Capture of Private Property at Sea and State Provision of Grain in War, [[101]]. Visit of King and Queen of Denmark, [[101]]. Guillotine on Parliament Bills: Debate, [[102]]. Grimsby Election, [[103]]. Welsh Church Bill: Financial Resolution, [[104]]. Government of Scotland Bill, [[104]]. Welsh Church Bill: Third Reading, [[105]]. Home Rule Bill: Financial Resolution, [[107]]. Storm in the House, [[109]]. North-East Derbyshire and Ipswich Elections, [[109]]. Home Rule Bill: Third Reading, [[110]]. Division, [[111]]. Traffic in Titles and Hereditary Titles (Termination) Bills, [[111]]. Suffragist Outrages, [[112]]. Labour Unrest, [[113]]. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND ITS CLOSE. | |
| Whitsuntide: Political Situation, [[114]]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Criccieth, [[114]]. Recess Speeches, [[115]]. Parliament: National Insurance Amendment and Milk and Dairies Bills, [[115]]. Post Office Vote again, [[116]]. Foreign Companies Control Bill, [[116]]. Home Office Vote: Militancy, and the Remedies, [[116]]. Outrage in Westminster Abbey, [[119]]. Further Home Rule Agitation, [[119]]. Plural Voting Bill, [[120]]. The Irish Volunteers and Mr. Redmond, [[121]]: Debates, [[121]]. Oil Fuel for the Navy, [[123]]. Board of Agriculture Vote, [[126]]. Local Government Board Vote, [[126]]. Great Trade Union Alliance, [[127]]. Suffragist Deputation to the Premier, [[127]]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Denmark Hill, [[128]]. Liberal Opposition to the Budget, [[128]]. Finance Bill: Second Reading Debate, [[129]]. Division, [[134]]. The Lord Chancellor on the Budget, [[134]]. The Amending Bill Introduced, [[135]]. Welsh Church Bill Referred to a Committee, [[136]]. Their Majesties in the Midlands, [[137]]. Foreign Office Vote, [[137]]. Address on the Murder of the Archduke Francis-Ferdinand, [[138]]. Denial of an Anglo-Russian Naval Agreement, [[139]]. Attempt to Revive the Marconi Scandal, [[139]]. Finance Bill: Committee, [[139]]. Amending Bill: Second Reading, [[140]]. Division, [[144]]. Death of Mr. J. Chamberlain: Tributes to his Memory, [[144]]. Finance Bill Guillotined, [[146]]. Board of Trade Vote, [[147]]. Foreign Office Vote: Further Debate, [[147]]. Council of India Bill, [[148]]. Amending Bill Transformed in Committee, [[149]]. Strike at Woolwich Arsenal, [[150]]. Further Suffragist Outrages: Successes of the "Women's Movement," [[151]], Their Majesties in Scotland, [[152]], The Agitation in Ulster, [[152]]. Amending Bill: Third Reading, [[153]]. Plural Voting Bill Rejected, [[154]]. Government Plans, [[154]]. Finance Bill: Committee, [[155]]. Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Mansion House, [[157]]. The Government and the Amending Bill, [[157]]. The Fleet at Spithead, [[157]]. Conference on the Ulster Problem, [[158]]. King's Speech on Opening It, [[159]]. Finance Bill: Report Stage, [[160]]. Third Reading, [[160]]. Failure of the Conference, [[161]]. Gun-running at Dublin: Troops Fire on the Crowd, [[162]]. Debate in the Commons, [[163]]. Report on the Affray, [[165]]. Demonstration in Favour of the Government, [[165]]. Colonial Office Vote, [[165]]. Education Vote, [[166]]. Report of Welsh Land Committee, [[166]]. The European Crisis and Great Britain, [[167]]. War Preparations, [[168]]. Liberal Attitude, [[169]]. Postponement of Payments Bill, [[170]]. Sir Edward Grey's Speech, [[170]]. Promises of Support by Party Leaders: Debate, [[172]]. Further War Measures, [[172]]. Ministerial Resignations, [[173]]. Definitive Anglo-German Rupture, [[174]]. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR. | |
| More War Preparations, [[175]]. War Legislation, [[175]]. White Paper on the European Crisis: England's Action, [[175]]. Prime Minister on the Vote of Credit, [[178]]. Debate, [[180]]. Measures for the Relief of Distress, [[180]]. Was Funds, [[181]]. The Königin Luise and Amphion, [[181]]. Press Bureau Established, [[181]]. War Legislation: First Instalment, [[181]]. Current Controversies Suspended, [[182]]. Lord Kitchener's Army, [[183]]. Naval Combats, [[183]]. Successes in Africa, [[183]], Charitable Aid, [[183]]. The Supply of Food, [[184]]. Spy Scares, [[185]]. Treatment of Alien Enemies: Relief Measures for Tourists, [[186]]. Day of Intercession: British Feeling on the War, [[187]]. The War Extends, [[188]]. Arrival of the British Expeditionary Force in France: Message from the King; Lord Kitchener's Instructions, [[188]]. The Retreat from Mons: Sir John French's Despatch, [[189]]. Earl Kitchener's Statement, [[190]]. Address to Belgium: Speech of the Prime Minister, [[191]]. Indian Troops to Come, [[192]]. Precautions on the East Coast, [[193]]. The "Scrap of Paper" Despatch: Naval Warfare; Engagement off Heligoland, [[193]]. Destruction of Louvain: British Recruiting Campaign, [[194]]. The Retreat from Mons: the Press and the Press Bureau, [[195]]. Further War Legislation, [[195]]. The War and the Parliament Act, [[196]]. Recruiting Campaign, [[196]]. Myth of Russian Troops, [[196]]. The Prime Minister and other Leaders at the Guildhall, [[196]]. Encouragement to British Hopes: Agreement of the Allies not to Conclude Peace separately; Further Operations in France, [[198]]. Naval Sweep of the North Sea, [[199]]. Chancellor of the Exchequer on Local Loans, [[200]]. Parliament Reassembles: Offers of Help from India, [[200]]. King's Message to the Dominions, [[201]]; to India, [[202]]. Further Vote of 500,000 Men: Prime Minister's Statement, [[202]]. Recruiting Movement: Speeches by the First Lord of the Admiralty and Others, [[203]]. Treatment of the Home Rule and Welsh Church Bills: Party Controversy; Debates, [[203]]. Earl Kitchener on the Military Situation, [[207]]. Prorogation of Parliament, [[208]]. Legislation of the Session, [[209]]. Bills Dropped, [[210]]. Mr. Asquith at Edinburgh, [[210]]. Mr. Lloyd George at Queen's Hall, [[211]]. Other Speeches, [[212]]. Sinking of British Cruisers: Air Raid on Düsseldorf, [[212]]. From the Marne to the Aisne: Sir John French's Despatch, [[213]]. Protection of London against Air Raids, [[214]]. German Responsibility for the War: Fresh Evidence, [[214]]. The Prime Minister at Dublin, [[215]]. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at Criccieth and Cardiff, [[216]]. Ulster Day Celebrated, [[216]]. German and British Theologians on the War, [[217]]. Recruiting Campaign, [[218]]. The Prime Minister at Cardiff, [[218]]. Recruiting in Ireland, [[219]]. Incidents of the War, [[219]]. Fall of Antwerp, [[220]]. Effects, [[221]]. Labour Manifesto, [[221]]. British Operations in Flanders, [[222]]; on the Belgian Coast, [[224]]. Incidents of the Naval War, [[225]]. Turkey Enters the War, [[226]]. Prince Louis of Battenberg Resigns, [[226]]. British Naval Defeat off Chile, [[226]]. Ministers at the Guildhall, [[227]]. Mr. Lloyd George at the City Temple, [[229]]. Opening of Parliament, [[230]]. Debates, [[231]]. The Press Bureau Criticised, [[232]]. Allowances to Soldiers' Dependents, [[233]]. Vote of Credit, [[233]]. Funeral of Earl Roberts, [[234]]. War Budget, [[235]]. Table, [[237]]. Concessions, [[237]]. Further Debates, [[238]]. The Bulwark Blown Up, [[239]]. The Spy Peril, [[239]]. Earl Kitchener on the War, [[240]]. Financial Position: Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, [[241]]. The First Lord of the Admiralty on the Naval Position, [[243]]. Further War Legislation, [[244]]. New Departure in Recruiting, [[245]], Progress of the War: Flanders, Friedrichshafen, the Persian Gulf, [[245]]. The King at the Front, [[245]]. The Prince of Wales at the Front, [[246]]. Continuance of Football, [[246]]. Naval Warfare: Battle off the Falkland Islands, [[247]]. A Turkish Battleship Sunk, [[248]]. German Raid on Hartlepool, Scarborough, and Whitby, [[248]]. Mr. Balfour on the War, [[249]], The Opposition Leaders and National Unity, [[249]]. Liberal Friction at Swansea, [[250]]. Gifts of the Colonies, [[250]]. Egypt a British Protectorate, [[250]]. Mission to the Vatican, [[250]]. Committee on German Atrocities, [[251]]. Mr. Bonar Law at Bootle, [[251]]. Treatment of Soldiers' Wives, [[251]]. German Air Raids on Dover and Sheerness: British Raid on Cuxhaven, [[252]], British Grounds of Hope of Victory, [[252]]. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Scotland and Ireland | page [[254] |
| SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. | |
| Finance and Trade in 1914 | [[261] |
| FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| France and Italy | [[268] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Germany and Austria-Hungary | [[305] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Russia, Turkey, and the Minor States of South-Eastern Europe | [[385] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Lesser States of Western and Northern Europe: Belgium—The Netherlands—Switzerland—Spain—Portugal—Denmark—Sweden—Norway | [[362] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| (By Sir Charles Roe, late Chief Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab.) | |
| Asia (Southern): Persia—The Persian Gulf and Baluchistan—Afghanistan—The North-West Frontier—British India—Native States—Tibet | [[402] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| (By W. R. Cables, O.M.G., late H.M. Consul-General at Tien-Tsin and Pekin.) | |
| The Far East: Japan—China | page [[411] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| (By H. Whates, Author of "The Third Salisbury Administration, 1895-1900," etc.) | |
| Africa (with Malta): South Africa—Egypt and the Sudan—North-East Africa and the Protectorates—North and West Africa | [[418] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| America: The United States of America and its Dependencies—Canada —Newfoundland—Mexico and Central America (by H. Whates)—The West Indies and the Guianas (by H. Whates)—South America (by H. Whates) | [[452] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Australasia: Australia—New Zealand—Polynesia | [[494] |
| PART II. | |
| CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN 1914 | page [1] |
| RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR'S LITERATURE (by Miss Alice Law), SCIENCE (by J. Reginald Ashworth, D.Sc., and others), ART (by W. T. Whitley), DRAMA (by the Hon. Eveline O. Godley), and MUSIC (by Robin H. Legge) | [38] |
| OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS DECEASED IN 1914 | [75] |
| INDEX | [116] |
Calendar 1914
