Irish cause, diverging from the national platform. Governor Alfred E. Smith is "suggested" for renomination, Miss Harriet May Mills, first woman nominee, for Secretary of State, and Harry C. Walker for United States Senator.

President Wilson proclaims December 21 Pilgrim's Day, and asks National observance of the tercentenary.

August 5.-J. G. Blaine is appointed Treasurer of the Republican Presidential campaign committee.

Governor A. H. Roberts wins renomination in Tennessee State Democratic primaries.

August 6.-Federal troops are ordered to Denver to stop street car strike riots, in which many are killed and hurt.

August 7.-Governor Cox is formally notified at Dayton of his nomination by the Democrats for the Presidency; he declares that he will carry on President Wilson's work and policies.

The Department of Justice reports 151 convictions of profiteers, 1499 indictments, and 1854

arrests.

August 8.-Two all-metal air mail planes arrive at San Francisco from New York in their pioneer trans-continental postal flight in eleven days.

August 9.-The Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is formally notified at Hyde Park, N. Y.

August 10.-The Railway Labor Board grants a wage increase of $30,000,000 to 75,000 railway express workers, retroactive to May 1.

President Wilson calls coal miners and operators to meet August 13, at Cleveland, Ohio, to adjust inequalities in the Bituminous Coal Commission award.

In Ohio primary elections, Henry L. Davis (Rep.) and A. V. Donahey (Dem.) win nominations for the governorship, while ex-Gov. Frank B. Willis (Rep.) and W. A. Julian (Dem.) are named for the senatorship. In Arkansas,

T. H. Caraway wins the Democratic nomination for Senator and T. C. McRae that for Governor.

August 11.-Rev. Aaron S. Watkins, of Ohio, formally accepts nomination for the Presidency by the Prohibition party.

The New York Public Service Commission refuses to allow intrastate railway rate increases on the scale of interstate raises until public hearings have been held.

August 12.-The New York legislature is called in special session to act in the housing crisis.

A speculator who collected $8,000,000 and paid 50 per cent. to depositors at Boston in a foreign exchange scheme is arrested after federal investigations.

August 13.-The Tennessee Senate, in special session, ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment 25 to 4.

The Interstate Commerce Commission raises express rates 122 per cent., or $35,500,000 a year.

August 15.-The Snowden report on United States Administration in Santo Domingo is published by Secretary Daniels; internal revenue increased from $700,000 a year to $3,492,000 in 1919.

Keystone View Co.

GREGORY KRASSIN, RUSSIAN SOVIET MINISTER OF TRADE

(Who has been conducting negotiations with the British Government at London. Resumption of commercial relations was the announced object of his visit; but it is popularly believed that he represented the Bolshevist government in matters involving political recognition also)

FOREIGN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

July 16.-Chinese Anfu and Chi-li armies engage in battle at Kwanhun, south of Peking; Japanese troops maintain neutrality of the railroad to Yangtsun, where Anfu forces are, by ordering the Chi-li commander to retire behind a two-mile limit on either side of the railway. July 18.-Commissioner Smythe, of the Munster Royal Irish Constabulary, is shot to death in the country club at Cork by Sinn Feiners.

Anfu forces under General Tuan Chi-jui are defeated by Chi-li troops commanded by General Wu Pei-fu, and many militarist (Anfu) detachments are driven back to Peking suburbs.

The Sheikh-il-Islam, Djeman Pasha, and Fahreddine Bey resign from the Turkish Cabinet; the latter were members of the peace delegation.

July 19.-In Cork, Sinn Feiners and troops fight in the streets at night, killing and wounding over 100.

The British Parliament learns that the Government has spent for naval and military operations in Russia since the armistice $280,000,000.

July 21.-At Belfast, Unionist shipworkers drive Sinn Feiners out of the shipyards.

Premier Lloyd George tells the House of ComImons that Poland must be saved from the Bolshevist menace.

July 23.-Belfast rioting brings more troops from England; 14 are killed, and hundreds are wounded; property loss is $1,000,000.

July 25.-In China, General Tuan Chi-jui, after attempting suicide, resigns as Anfu leader; a group of associates go to Tientsin to accept terms for the punishment of Gen. Hsu Shu-cheng (dismissed Commissioner of Inner Mongolia),

July 26.-Premier Lloyd George tells the Commons that Archbishop Mannix of Australia will be barred from England because of recent speeches regarding Ireland.

Arturo Allessandri receives a majority of two electoral votes for the presidency of Chile, defeating Luis Barros Borgono.

July 27-Nova Scotia elections indicate the return of Premier George H. Murray's Liberal government: Liberals 17 seats, Laborites 4, Conservatives 2, Farmers 2.

July 28.-Pancho Villa and his bandit followers surrender to the de la Huerta government of Mexico, receiving amnesty and land grants.

July 30.-Frank Brooke, Irish railway executive, and confidential adviser of Lord French, is killed by Sinn Feiners at Dublin. . . Brig.Gen. C. H. T. Lucas escapes from Sinn Fein kidnappers.

Premier Millerand wins approval from the

THE NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR, WITH TWO OF HIS MINISTERS

(Herr Constantin Fehrenbach, Imperial Chancellor, stands in the center, with Finance Minister Wirth at the left, and Foreign Minister Simons at the right. The picture was taken during the conference with the Allied iplomats at Spa)

Chamber of Deputies, 356 to 169, on his Spa coal settlement.

August 2.-Governor Cantu, of Mexican Lower California, is in open revolt from the de la Huerta government; Mexican federal troops are sent to compel his surrender.

August 3.-A bill for military courts in Ireland is introduced in the House of Commons.

August 4.-A deputation of Irish business men (Unionists, Nationalists, Protestants, and Catholics) seeks Dominion rule within the Empire from Premier Lloyd George, claiming that no one in Ireland wants the Home Rull bill.

A Mexican cabinet shake-up sends all military members but the War Minister abroad as diplomats.

August 5.-Dr. Simons, Foreign Minister, tells the German Reichstag the nation will fight if necessary to prevent Allied violation of German neutrality by sending troops over her territory to help Poland.

Bitter debate occurs on the second reading of the Irish Crimes bill, which is passed, 289 to 71. August 5.-Premier Lloyd George tells the Commons it may be necessary to intervene with military force in behalf of Poland; Baltic blockade measures are in preparation.

August 6.-The House of Commons passes the Irish Crimes bill, 206 to 18; Nationalist and Labor members walk out when Joseph Devlin is suspended for disorder.

August 9.-Archbishop Mannix is taken from his steamer under technical arrest; the action is universally condemned by the press.

Labor leaders warn the British Premier that "the whole industrial power of the organized workers" will be used to defeat any war between the Allies and Russia on the issue of Poland. The Irish Crimes bill passes the House of Lords without opposition, and becomes law.

August 11.-Italy is overrun by anarchist "fireraisings" which destroy munitions, food, and material stores.

August 12.-Premier Venizelos is slightly wounded by Greek Royalist plotters.

August 13.-The Mayor of Cork is arrested by British troops for sedition in holding a Sinn Fein court at City Hall.

August 14.-The Mexican State of Jalisco revolts.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

July 16.-Germany signs the coal delivery agreement presented by the Allies at Spa just before the conference ends.

July 17.-Turkey is given ten days to sign the Allies treaty without alteration as to Thrace or Smyrna clauses, under threat of ejection from Europe.

Polish troops give up Vilna to the Bolsheviki after stubborn rear-guard fighting.

July 19.-The Bolshevist reply to the British note on peace with Poland shows a preference for dealing with Poland direct; it declines to go to London, because Great Britain is not impartial.

July 20.-The British cabinet advises Poland to seek an armistice with Soviet Russia, which is warned of possible failure of trade resumption if Poland's request is refused.

July 21.-Greek troops enter Adrianople; Turks hold the railway between Maritza River and Tchataldja.

July 22.-German State Presidents, in conference, decide to comply with the Spa agreement. . . . The German dirigible L-64 is turned over to the British.

July 23.-Moscow reports a request from Poland for an armistice. A new Polish cabinet is formed under M. Witos, with M. Daszynski, a Socialist, as vice-premier. . . . The Polish Ambassador at Washington seeks American moral and financial support.

July 24.-The Russian government grants Poland's request, conditioned upon surrender of the South Russian General, Wrangel, and free commercial access to Germany.

International jurists complete the draft of a world court, which is handed to the secretariat of the League of Nations at The Hague.

Germany returns a first consignment of 10,000 books stolen from the Louvain library.

July 25.-French troops Occupy Damascus, Syria, seat of the Feisal government, after a bitter fight in which Yussuf Azib, Syrian War Minister, is killed. Adrianople is taken by the Greeks; Jafar Tayar's defeated Nationalist troops retreat toward the Bulgarian border; Greek troops land at Midia on the Black Sea and penetrate twenty miles to Viza.

July 27.-The Polish Legation at Washington asks permission to buy 200,000 American army uniforms and shoes from the War Department. British and American diplomats confer at Washington on Far Eastern policies and conditions particularly the extension of Japanese influence in Siberia and China and the anti-Japanese movement in California.

July 28.-Tokio is requested by the United States to reveal her aims in East Siberia and northern Saghalin Island.

The St. Gaudens statue of Lincoln is unveiled at Canning Square, London; Elihu Root presents the gift from the United States to England.

The American Ambassador at Rome requests withdrawal of the Italian fleet from Spalato, Dalmatia, in the interest of peace.

July 29.-The signing of the Turkish treaty is again postponed, Greece and Italy disputing the territorial provisions as to the Aegean Islands, Albania, and Asia Minor.

July 30-Allied Premiers notify Poland they will not permit her to accept any Soviet demand for disarmament, change of government, use of Poland as a bridgehead to Germany, or any boundary less favorable than that outlined by Lloyd George.

July 31.-Soviet Russia is said to have ordered the capture of Warsaw and postponement of armistice negotiations; Polish commissioners meet the Russians and return to Warsaw for authority to conclude peace as well as armistice terms; Soviet troops gain the East Prussian frontier. .. The Bolshevist reply to Allied trade queries indicates impossibility of commerce without recognition of the government.

August 1-Bolshevist troops capture Lomza and Brest-Litovsk and drive at Lemberg in the south.

August 5.-Polish counter-attacks drive Russions back to the Grodno border.

(Troops marching through the streets of Belfast, with fingers on the triggers)

The Council of the League of Nations decides to hold the International Financial Congress at Brussels, beginning September 24.

August 9.-French and British premiers meet at Hythe, England; Bolshevists refuse a ten-day truce with Poland; arrangements are made to aid Poland and blockade Russia.

Bulgarian treaty ratifications are exchanged. German warships allocated to the United States reach New York, only one of the five under her own steam.

August 10.-The policy of the United States on Poland and Russia is stated in a note to Italy; Secretary Colby refuses recognition of Soviet Russia and insists upon maintenance of the territorial integrity of both Russia and Poland without dismemberment of the former into frontier states until she has a stable government possible of recognition. . . . Lloyd George explains the Polish crisis to the House of ComThe Polish Council of National Defense asks General Weygand (French) to lead the Polish army; General Leszniewski, Minister of War, resigns and is succeeded by General Solnokowski.

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OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH

July 16.-Los Angeles is affected by four earthquakes; no great damage is done.

July 17.-El Paso, Texas, gains 113.4 per cent. in the new census report, with a population of 83,836.

Government expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted to $23,441,383,564; War Department, $1,610,587,380; railroads, $1,036,672,157; interest on public debt, $1,020,251,622; Navy Department $736,021,456; and Shipping Board, $530,565,649.

July 19.-The Pennsylvania Railroad lays off 12,000 men, to save $15,000,000 and improve efficiency.

July 22.-Illinois mine workers tie up coal Railproduction by unauthorized strikes. way unions, except the telegraphers, accept the wage award of the Labor Board.

Sugar prices drop three cents wholesale on the strength of increased imports.

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July 23.-Coal miners on strike near Huntington, Pa., refuse settlement offers from operaAttorney-General Palmer calls a conference to bring down spot coal prices and reduce Two excessive profits and labor unrest. miners are shot at Freeborn, W. Va., by strike guards.

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June exports drop to $631,000,000, while imports total $553,000,000; the fiscal year ending June 30 shows exports of $8,111,000,000 and a trade balance in our favor of $2,872,000,000.

July 24.-New Orleans street car union men return to work while conciliators adjust the dispute over wages; the strike started July 1.

Four army airplanes, flying from New York to Alaska, reach Fargo, N. D.

July 25.-Southampton, England, celebrating the Mayflower Tercentenary, enacts a pageant of the embarkation.

July 26.-The strike of Illinois coal miners spreads to Indiana.

Bridgeport is without trolley service for the first time in 22 years; jitney buses carry 100,000 passengers satisfactorily.

July 27. In the international yacht races of New York Harbor, the American defender Resolute wins the fifth and deciding contest, defeating the Shamrock IV by thirteen minutes over thirty-mile course.

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The Interchurch World Movement publishes its report on the steel strike, criticizing unfair methods of the company; it recommends a universal eight-hour day, with ten-hour limit and a six-day week, union recognition, and extension of home building for workers, together with Government investigation of civil liberty conditions and labor detective agencies; wages are judged, for the large mass of workers, below the American standard.

August 2.-Railroad executives announce that rate increases will go into effect for passengers on August 20 and for freight on August 26.

Illinois and Indiana coal strikers return to work.

August 3.-The Knights of Columbus hold their supreme annual convention at New York. August 4.-Reports show 581 business failures

in July, more than in any month since December, 1918.

August 5.-Riots occur in Denver streets, where a trolley strike is on, and the Post offices are wrecked; a mob is reported expelling foreigners from West Frankfort, Ill., as a result of the murder of two boys.

August 8.-The International Miners' Congress at Geneva ends; it is agreed European mines should be nationalized.

Capt. Roald Amundsen leaves Nome, Alaska, for a trip in the Arctic.

August 14.-The Olympic games are opened, with 3,000 athletes representing 27 countries, at Antwerp.

August 15.-Four army airplanes reach Wrangel, Alaska, on the New York flight to Nome.

OBITUARY

July 13.-John B. Winslow, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, 69.

July 17.-Charles E. Courtney, Cornell rowing coach, 71.

July 22.-William K. Vanderbilt, financier and former railroad president, 71. . . . Capt. Martin J. Lyons, yacht racing skipper, 88.

July 23.-James Mitchell, who installed the first trolley cars in South America, 54.

July 26.-Brig.-Gen. George Lippitt Andrews, U. S. A., retired, 92. . . Mrs. Ellen Cyr Smith, author of public-school readers.

July 28.-William Marion Reedy, of St. Louis, a noted editor, 58. . . Col. Ezekiel F. Clay, widely known turfman.

August 1.-J. Frank Hanly, ex-Governor of Indiana and Prohibition candidate for President in 1916, 57.

August 3.-Lieut. Omar Locklear, premier "stunt" aviator. Isham Randolph, noted engineer, 72.

August 5.-James C. McNally, of the consular service, 55.

August 6.-Rev. Dr. Hubert C. Herring, Secretary of National Council of Congregational Churches, 61.

August 7.-Mortimer F. Elliott, famous oil lawyer and ex-Congressman, 81. Brig.Gen. Charles Russell Suter, U. S. A., retired, 78. . . Rev. George Frederick Pentecost, the Philadelphia evangelist, 78.

August 8.-Frederick Sturges Allen, lexicographer, editor of Webster's New International Dictionary, 58.

August 9.-Rear-Admiral Charles T. Hutchins, U. S. N., retired, 76.