General Foreign News
March 7.—Practically half of the workingmen of St. Petersburg are on strike. The situation continues grave, though quiet, at Warsaw and at other points in Russia.
Hon. George Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, resigns from the British Ministry.
March 8.—The peasant revolt in outlying Russian provinces is rapidly spreading.
Men at the Russian naval dockyard go on strike.
China decides to build immediately the Kalgan Railway and to place it under a Chinese engineer, which is regarded as an anti-Russian move.
On a fiscal policy division forced by Winston Churchill in the British House of Commons the Government is sustained by a majority of 42.
Both Premier Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain deny that they are protectionists.
March 9.—Russia pushes troops toward her Indian frontier, in evident opposition to Great Britain’s moves in Thibet, Persia and other Central Asiatic territory.
The plague in India kills 34,000 in one week.