20. The President of the Argentine Republic arrived in London on an official visit.

Agreement between Chile and Peru, signed in Washington, to accept arbitration of President Harding on Tacna-Arica plebescite.

21. Mr. D. Grenfell (Lab.) was returned to Parliament for the Gower division of Glamorganshire by a majority of 3,455 over his CoalitionLiberal opponent.

- Mr. G. S. Gordon was appointed Merton Professor of English literature at Oxford.

22. The King reviewed 9,000 London Territorial troops in Hyde Park. The annual report of the Registrar-General for 1920 showed that the death-rate was the lowest and the birth-rate the highest ever recorded for England and Wales.

24. Final meeting of the League of Nations in London: "A" Mandates approved (Syria, Palestine, and Central African territories).

25. Mr. T. I. Mardy Jones (Lab.) was returned to Parliament for the Pontypridd division of Glamorgan by a majority of 4,080 over the CoalitionLiberal candidate.

26. Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., F.R.S., was presented with the Franklyn Gold Medal for his services in science.

27. Forty-five passengers were injured in an accident at Liverpool Street Station.

28. United States recognized de jure independence of Albania, Esthonia, Latria, and Lithuania.

30. Four persons who were attempting the ascent of the Jungfrau were killed by falling over a precipice.

31. Opening of an International Chess Tournament at Westminster.

The number of persons recorded on the live registers of the employment exchanges in Great Britain as wholly unemployed was 1,352,431.

AUGUST.

1. Reduced railway rates on general merchandise came into force. Forty-seven persons were killed and fifty injured in a collision of

two trains conveying pilgrims to Lourdes.

2. Colonel H. W. Higginson was appointed aide-de-camp to the King. 4. General J. T. Burnett-Stuart was appointed Director of military operations and intelligence at the War Office.

6. M. Poincaré, the French Prime Minister, arrived in London.

7. Severe floods occurred at Sheffield.

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Mr. D. J. Gibson was killed while racing at Brooklands, his car being overturned.

The number of persons recorded on the live registers of the employment exchanges of Great Britain as wholly unemployed was 1,328,600.

8. H.M. cruiser Raleigh, while cruising off the Labrador coast, went ashore in the straits of Belle Isle.

9. Lord Haig unveiled at Sheffield a memorial to 1,300 men employed by the Great Central Railway Company who fell during the war.

12. Sir W. L. Allardyce was appointed Governor of Newfoundland, Sir Robert Coryndon, Governor of Kenya, Sir G. Archer, Governor of Uganda, Colonel G. H. Summers, Governor of Somaliland, and Sir Graeme Thomson, Governor of British Guiana.

14. Colonel H. S. de Brett and Lieut-Colonel D. H. Gill were appointed to command the two anti-aircraft brigades of the territorial army which were to be formed in London.

Viscount Northcliffe died at his London residence [v. Obit.].

15. Opening of the Horse Show of the Royal Dublin Society.

17. Eight persons who ate potted meat sandwiches in an hotel at Gairloch died of botulism.

18. At a bye-election in South Hackney caused by the expulsion of Horatio Bottomley, Captain C. Erskine-Bolst (Co.-U.) was returned by a majority of 72 over the Labour Candidate.

19. The death-rate in London during this week was 8.1 per thousand, the lowest ever recorded.

20. Games on Sundays were allowed for the first time in the Royal parks in London.

21. Three workmen were killed and 59 injured in a train collision near Gravesend.

A party of British members of Parliament left London for Quebec on a tour across Canada arranged by the Montreal Board of Trade.

24. Major-General Sir George Bridges was appointed Governor of South Australia.

28. The first wireless telephone exchange came into operation at Croydon aerodrome.

29. A party left Australia to explore New Guinea by air.

30. Sir William Marris, K.C.S.I., was appointed Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oude.

31. Professor H. R. Dean was appointed to succeed the late Sir G. Sims Woodhead as Professor of Pathology at Cambridge.

SEPTEMBER.

1. The Duchess of Albany died at Innsbrück. The Court went into mourning for 4 weeks [v. Obit.].

2. A severe earthquake occurred in the island of Formosa.

4. The court that inquired into the sinking of the P. & O. Liner Egypt found that the loss of life was mainly due to default on the part of the master and the chief officer, and also to failure on the part of the owners through their officials and servants to take proper measures.

5. Thirty-nine miners were entombed as the result of an explosion at the Haig colliery, Whitehaven.

6. The annual meeting of the British Association for the advancement of science opened at Hull.

9. The first Irish Parliament under the Free State met in Dublin. 11. The number of persons unemployed in Great Britain was 1,318,500.

13. The Times announced that the personal estate of the late Viscount Northcliffe had been provisionally estimated at 2,000,000l.

15. The estate of the late Sir Thomas Glen-Coats was sworn for probate at 1,674,8061.

16. Sir John Henry Kerr was appointed Governor of Assam.

18. The forty-fifth Annual Conference of the Library Association began at Cardiff.

19. Heavy floods and gales occurred in Wales, causing much damage. 20. Mr. J. B. Williams, of the Musicians Union, was chosen chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

21. The sun was totally eclipsed on a belt of the earth stretching from Somaliland across the Indian Ocean and Australia.

23. Ebbw Vale steel works and collieries, employing 10,000 workers, were closed owing to constant labour bickerings.

24. Georges Carpentier was knocked out by Battling Siki in the sixth round of a twenty-round boxing contest for the light heavy weight championship of the world in Paris.

26. The Prince of Wales was presented with the freedom of the City of St. Andrews.

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Lord Rothermere became the principal proprietor of the Daily Mail and its associated newspapers.

29. Alderman E. C. Moore was elected Lord Mayor of London, in succession to Sir John Baddeley.

OCTOBER.

2. A new airway came into operation between London, Brussels, and Cologne.

3. Three lives were lost in an aeroplane accident at Swansea.

4. Two men were drowned and a third man injured in an accident at Rothesay Dock, Clydebank.

5. Retail prices of coal in London were increased, the maximum advance being 38. per ton.

7. 60,000 boy scouts gave the Prince of Wales a great welcome at the Alexandra Palace.

8. "Summer-time" came to an end and normal time was restored, clocks being put back one hour.

10. The Church Congress opened at Sheffield.

Honorary degrees were conferred at Leeds University on the Bishop of Ripon and Mr. Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement.

A Treaty was signed at Baghdad between the British and Iraq Governments.

11. Captain F. Forester's Light Dragoon won the Cesarewitch stakes, starting at odds of 100 to 1.

Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor-General of Canada, concluded an official tour of four months of the prairie provinces, British Colombia and Yukon.

An Armistice convention was signed at Mudania between the Allied Generals and Ismet Pasha, the Turkish General.

12. Mr. Robert Munro, K.C., M.P., Secretary for Scotland, was appointed Lord Justice Clerk.

Dr. Alvear was installed President of the Argentine Republic. 16. The number of persons recorded on the live registers of the employment exchanges in Great Britain as wholly unemployed was 1,332,500.

17. Railway companies decided to reduce passenger fares by oneseventh and to make a similar reduction for rates for fish and meat carried by passenger train.

The Prime Minister opened new headquarters of the Port of London Authority on Tower Hill.

18. Messrs. Sir Charles R. McGrigor, Bart., & Co., Army Agents and Bankers, suspended payment.

Sir Eric Geddes was nominated as President of the Federation of British Industries for the coming year.

19. Mr. Lloyd George resigned his office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

- At a bye-election at Newport Mr. Reginald Clarry (Cons.) was returned by a majority of 2,090 over the Labour Candidate.

20. The Prince of Wales visited the Guildhall and was presented with an address of congratulation on his tour in India and the Far East.

23. Mr. Bonar Law was received by the King and appointed Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

Canon J. H. B. Masterman was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth.

It was announced that the Prince of Wales would pay a visit to South Africa after 1923.

24. Sir Harold Smith, M.P., was appointed Recorder of Blackburn. 25. Outgoing Ministers surrendered their seals of office at Buckingham Palace and new Ministers were sworn in.

The Marquess of Bute was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle.

It was announced that the late Lord Northcliffe's shares in The

Times, as well as those of Sir John Ellerman, had been acquired by Mr. John Walter, and that Major the Hon. J. J. Astor was associated with Mr. Walter in their acquisition.

26. Parliament was dissolved by royal proclamation.

27. Lord Balfour unveiled the Stock Exchange War Memorial.

29. Twenty cases of small-pox were discovered in Poplar Institution. 30. Sir Basil Blackett was appointed a member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India.

31. The Times announced that Lord Hardinge would shortly give up his post as British Ambassador in Paris.

NOVEMBER.

1. Polling took place in the Borough elections in England and Wales. The Labour Party lost over 300 seats in London.

4. It was announced by The Times that London omnibus, underground railway, and tramway fares would be reduced on January 1.

Nominations took place of candidates for Parliament; 57 candidates, including Mr. Lloyd George, were returned unopposed. Nearly 1,450 candidates, including 32 women, were nominated.

5. The ex-Kaiser of Germany was married at Doorn to Princess Hermine of Reuss.

7. The King conferred a baronetcy on Sir John Baddeley on his retirement from the Lord Mayoralty of London, and knighthoods on Mr. H. J. de Courcy Moore and Mr. G. Mills McKay, the ex-Sheriffs.

9. An attempt was made to murder Sir William Horwood, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, by sending him poisoned chocolates through the post.

The Lord Mayor's Show was celebrated in the usual manner.

The London-Brussels Air Mail Service was suspended owing to the bad state of the aerodrome at Brussels.

10. An earthquake occurred in Chile, the loss of life being estimated at 1,000.

11. Armistice day was celebrated; two minutes' silence was observed at 11 A.M. The King laid a wreath at the cenotaph.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling was elected Rector of St. Andrews University. 14. Resignation of the German (Wirth) Cabinet.

15. Polling took place in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland for the new Parliament.

16. Whalley Abbey, formerly the home of Cistercian monks, was bought for the Church of England by the Manchester Diocesan Board of Finance.

17. Nine women students were called to the Bar.

18. Lord Crewe was appointed to succeed Lord Hardinge as British Ambassador in Paris.

Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M., was elected an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

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