The Warsaw railway strikes are reported partially settled, but a street railway strike begins and disturbances continue.
Severe fighting between the Armenians and the Mussulmans continues in the Caucasus region; leading officials and merchants are assassinated at Batoum, and revolutionary manifestoes in favor of a republic are circulated broadcast.
The Countess of Warwick begins an automobile tour of Great Britain for the purpose of assisting the various labor candidates for Parliament.
A general railway strike begins in Italy, the workmen being dissatisfied with the treatment proposed to be given them under the bill creating State management of railways.
It is announced that the Czar has decided not to call the Zemsky Sober, and that he has irrevocably decided that the war with Japan must go on.
February 27.—Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian novelist, is released from prison only to be rearrested by order of General Trepoff and banished to Riga.
President Morales lays before the Dominican Congress the protocol with the United States.
Berlin’s new cathedral is dedicated in the presence of the Emperor and delegates from all parts of the world.
The Czar, in an effort to break the strike, orders a raise of wages on State railroads and in Government arsenals.
The disturbances in Russian Poland are augmented by a serious revolt of the peasantry in fifty villages.