Disorders continue in Russian Poland, and several strikers are killed by the troops.
The assassin of Soisalon Soininen, Procurator-General of Finland, is identified a former student at one of the Finnish universities.
February 8.—Because of the failure of the employers to concede the demands of their workingmen, new strikes are declared at St. Petersburg, Vassili Ostroff and other points in Russia.
Strikers tear up the Siberian Railway east of Irkutsk.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, is questioned in court and afterward returned to prison.
The students of one of the St. Petersburg schools refuse to attend lectures because of police interference.
Because of the continued state of disorder in Russian Poland, many refugees leave the country.
The new protocol between the United States and Santo Domingo is signed at Santo Domingo. It provides for the territorial integrity of the island republic and for ratification by the United States Senate.
The British Government decides that John H. Gaynor and Benjamin H. Greene, American refugees in Canada, may be extradited and returned to the United States.
King Oscar, of Sweden, turns over the government to Crown Prince Gustav.