April 11.—Captain Volpert, of the French army, has been arrested, charged with complicity in a military plot to overthrow the present regime.
Baron de Constant makes a speech in the French Senate in favor of international military and naval disarmament.
Russian lawyers pass resolutions favoring a constitution and universal suffrage.
April 12.—A congress of lawyers held at St. Petersburg sets on foot a movement to democratize the Russian Government.
Under the terms of a commercial treaty being negotiated between Germany and Morocco, it is said Germany will gain the most favored nation guarantees in Morocco.
April 13.—The Premier of Newfoundland inserts a clause in the anti-American fishing bill reserving the power of suspension. This was done on account of the pending Bond-Hay treaty.
All but one nation have accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to a second peace conference.
April 14.—The body of Admiral John Paul Jones is unearthed in Paris.
Czar of Russia consents to consider a savings bank and land purchase scheme for the peasants.
The workers in the porcelain factories at Limoges, France, have decided to strike. The factories are owned by Americans, and they have raised the American flag over the factories to protect their property.