Fighting between Raisuli and the Anjera tribesmen is renewed near Tangiers, Morocco.
January 28.—General Linevitch reports that the mutinous sailors at Vladivostok have been disarmed. Reports from Viatka show that school children held a fort against a battalion of Russian soldiers for fifteen hours.
Fighting continues in Morocco. The rebels are victorious in several fights.
January 29.—King Christian IX of Denmark dies suddenly at Copenhagen. The King was the father of Crown Prince Christian Frederick, of Denmark, Alexandra, Queen of England, Dagmar, Dowager Empress of Russia, King George, of Greece, Thyra, the Duchess of Cumberland, and Prince Valdemar of Orleans. He was the grandfather of the Czar of Russia and of King Haakon of Norway.
The Russian authorities again claim that the Vladivostok trouble has been terminated.
President Castro is making active preparations for a war with France.
January 30.—The Russian revolutionists assassinate Gen. Griaznoff, Chief of Staff of the Viceroy of the Caucasus at Tiflis. Tiflis is placed under martial law. Fighting is said to be in progress between the Armenians and Tatars in the Caucasus.
Frederick VIII, eldest son of the late King Christian, is proclaimed King of Denmark.
January 31.—Japan urges England to reorganize her army.
1,000,000 persons are reported starving in Japan