The Liberals continue to gain over the Unionists in the election now being held in England. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board and a prominent labor leader, is re-elected by 1,800 majority.
St. Petersburg Police raid a meeting of the Workman’s Council and capture 22 members. Revolutionary documents, correspondence and the headquarters from which propaganda is conducted to the army and navy are discovered. In the Caucasus the rebels continue their resistance to the Government.
January 17.—Joseph Chamberlain and his seven candidates are returned to Parliament from Birmingham, England.
M. Fallières, President of the French Senate, is elected President of the French Republic to succeed M. Loubet.
Venezuelan officials prohibit M. Taigny, the French chargé d’affaires, from landing in Venezuela. The heads of the French cable officers at Caracas and La Guayra are also expelled.
January 18.—Delegates to the Moroccan conference agree that the shipping of contraband arms into Morocco must be stopped.
After giving M. Maubourguet the Venezuelan chargé d’affaires, his passport, the French Government has him escorted to the Belgian frontier by special police.
Serious riots occur in Hamburg, Germany, between the police and Socialists. About 20 policemen and 15 Socialists are wounded when the police attempt to disperse a crowd of Socialists erecting a barricade in the street.
The Constitutional Democrats of Russia meet in convention in St. Petersburg.
Trouble continues in the Baltic and Southern Provinces, and the Czar is still afraid to leave his palace.