The delegates are gathering at Algeciras, Spain, for the conference on the Moroccan question.
Carlos F. Morales, former President of Santo Domingo, reaches San Juan, Porto Rico. He declares in favor of the treaty between Santo Domingo and the United States now before the Senate for ratification.
The Santo Domingan troops rout the rebels in a battle at Guayubin, Santo Domingo.
M. Durnovo is made Minister of the Interior by the Emperor of Russia.
General Nogi is enthusiastically welcomed home by the people of Tokio.
January 15.—The election of members of the British Parliament up to date shows a landslide. The Liberals have elected 132 members while the Unionists have elected thirty.
The peasants are said to be committing all manner of horrible crimes in Orel, Russia. Maj. Gen. Lisooiki is assassinated at Penza. Assassins kill three sergeants of police at Riga. The revolutionists continue to resist the Government in the Caucasus.
Dispatches from Paris state that France will send warships to coerce Venezuela into paying France’s claims.
The Czar starts a movement to reorganize the Church in Russia.
January 16.—The Moroccan conference begins at Algeciras, Spain. The Duke of Almodovar, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, is elected President of the conference.