HON. WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING, WHO WILL BE CANADA'S NEW PREMIER

(Leading the Liberal party, Mr. King defeated Premier Meighen by a tremendous majority which carried 120 seats and engulfed 11 Cabinet Ministers. Women voted, in this election of December 6, for the first time on terms of equality with men. The Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority and now take third place with 50 seats, the Progressives holding 62)

Governor Shoup establishes martial law because of a strike of miners over a wage reduction.

The Philippine Senate confirms all the important appointments of Governor General Wood. November 17.-The first authoritative Shipping Board balance sheet shows assets, aside from appropriations and fleet, of $307,400,000 and liabilities of $115,878,000 as of July 1.

November 20.- Governor E. Mont Reily, of Porto Rico, arrives at New York on his way to report to the President.

November 21.-The New York City Transit Commission takes testimony from subway officials showing that the Interborough paid in eighteen years $65,625,000 on $35,000,000 of capital stock, or 306 per cent. on the actual cash capital, out of a net income of $67,867,878.48.

The Cape May County (N. J.) Board of Freeholders are sentenced to pay heavy fines for malfeasance in office connected with road graft. November 23.-President Harding signs the Tax bill, the Sheppard-Towner maternity bill and the Anti-Beer bill.

Four members of the so-called Tile Trust, recently exposed by the New York City housing investigation, are sentenced to jail.

The Interstate Commerce Commission orders an investigation to lower freight rates.

November 26.-Ellis Island announces that the immigration quotas for the year ending June 30, 1922, have been exhausted from Greece, Spain, Palestine, Portugal, Africa, Jugoslavia, and Syria.

November 27.-Tax receipts fall off $812,579,486 for the fiscal year 1921, the Internal Revenue Bureau reports; total taxes were $4,596,000,765 and cost 87 cents per $100 to collect.

November 28.-Governor Miller, of New York, appoints a Charter Revision Committee for New York City, headed by Francis M. Scott (Dem.).

November 29.-Governor General Wood's report on the Philippines is published; he recommends that the Islands be retained, and suggests more authority for the governor.

November 30.-The Railway Labor Board decides upon an "open shop" basis for the shop crafts and promulgates new rules; 400,000 men are immediately affected; the roads should save $50,000,000 a year.

December 5.-The Lockwood housing investigation is resumed at New York City by inquiry into union labor practices shown by testimony to have mulcted members' families of death benefits and outside workers of $250,000 a year paid for permission to work without membership in the union.

The United States Supreme Court holds strike picketing lawful, subject to injunction if methods of intimidation or obstruction are used.

December 13.-The Railway Labor Board rules no overtime rate shall prevail until after ten hours, but adheres to the basic eight-hour day.

FOREIGN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

November 16.-At Pandikkad, India, Gurkha troops repulse an artillery attack on their garrison by Moplah revolutionists.

The Polish Assembly is reported to have passed President Pilsudski's plan incorporating Vilna as a Middle-Lithuanian State.

November 17.-The Prince of Wales arrives at Bombay, India; he receives a rousing welcome, though natives start a serious riot.

The annual conference of the Unionist party at Liverpool sustains Lloyd George's Irish settlement policy, 1900 to 70.

November 18.-The British Admiralty suspends work on new warship construction.

There is a heavy run on Chinese banks; General Wu Pei-Fu offers to guarantee all foreign obligations if the Peking Government fails.

Soviet Russia opens a State Bank at Moscow. November 21.-Moplah rebels in India number 100,000, with 15,000 armed men operating over 3000 square miles against both British and Hindus, attempting forcibly to convert the latter to Mohammedanism.

November 22.-The Irish truce is broken at Belfast; nearly twenty persons are killed.

Announcement is made of the engagement of Princess Mary, only daughter of King George of England, to Viscount Lascelles, son of the Earl of Harewood; precedents are broken.

November 24.-In Madras, British India, sixtyfour Moplah prisoners are suffocated in a closed railway car while in transit; the incident is treated by the natives as on a par with "the Black Hole of Calcutta" in 1756.

November 25.-Lloyd George informs Sir James Craig, of Ulster, that Sinn Fein refuses to own the allegiance to the King which Ulster requires before she will enter an All-Ireland Parliament under the proposed settlement.

Crown Prince Hirohito is named Regent of Japan; the Emperor is reported to be insane.

November 26.-The city of San Juan, Argentina, is patrolled by cavalry until a great political feud, started by the assassination of Governor Jones on November 20, is settled.

December 1.-Lloyd George hands new Irish proposals to Sinn Fein; dominion status is offered with Ulster uncoerced and a boundary commission to arrange readjustment of lines between the North and South.

Nicaragua ends martial law in her northwestern departments following receipt of a shipment of arms and munitions from the United States.

December 4.-Sinn Fein delegates refuse to accede to terms of settlement; the hitch seems to be on the oath of allegiance and continuance of Irish partition.

German marks drop sharply in value; living costs rose 22 per cent. for November, compared with October, and were 58 per cent, higher than a year ago.

December 6.-At London, Sinn Fein delegates sign a treatry under which Ireland gets Dominion status under the name of the "Irish Free State"; Ulster has a month to object and remain under the Government of Ireland Act of 1920, but can obtain no new powers by staying out of the settlement.

Premier Briand receives a vote of confidence on his foreign policy of 249 to 12 in the Senate and 400 to 100 in the Chamber.

The Canadian general election results in defeat for Premier Meighen and victory for the Liberals headed by W. L. Mackenzie King; eleven Cabinet members lose their seats; Liberals carry 120 seats; Progressives 62.

December 7.-King George summons Parliament to ratify the Irish treaty; De Valera calls the Dublin Cabinet; Sir James Craig asks the Ulster House to delay action until certain ambiguities are cleared up.

In Guatemala, President Carlos Herrera is deposed by Generals José Maria Lima, Orellana, and Miguel Larrave, who form a Provisional Government.

December 8.-Eamon de Valera declares himself and two Cabinet members opposed to ratification of the treaty, which he refers to the Dail Eireann; he asks the Irish people to continue orderly conduct pending final settlement of the question. Arthur Griffith, who signed the treaty as a delegate, declares himself strongly for ratification.

December 9.-At Ballykinlan Camp, in Belfast, the last Irish political prisoners are released.

In Guatemala, General Orellana, Chief of Staff, is elected Provisional President, succeeding Carlos Herrera.

December 11.-In India, C. R. Das, Presidentelect of the National Congress, and Abdul Kalamazad, President of the Bengal Caliphate Committee, are arrested by the British.

December 12.-At Allahabad, India, a city of 175,000, the visit of the Prince of Wales is boycetted; only a couple of thousand Europeans and Eurasians appear on the streets; 600 arrests have been made.

Germany's Federal Council raises postal, telephone, telegraph, and railroad rates 2000 per cent. above pre-war levels; the National Eco

nomic Council approves a compulsory national credit association giving the Government power to impose credit on all trades and industries.

Britain extends the India Sedition act to Burma. December 14.-The British Parliament meets in special session, and the King and Premier Lloyd George advocate ratification of the Irish treaty; the Dail Eireann meets at Dublin for the same purpose, but disputes between leaders result in secret sessions.

December 15.-Andrew Bonar Law, British Unionist, and former Premier Asquith, advocate ratification of the Irish treaty by the British Parliament.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

November 14.- President Harding signs a proclamation declaring that the war with Germany ended July 2, 1921. Ellis Loring Dresel is appointed American Charge d'Affaires in Berlin.

November 15.-Persia's new Minister to Washington is cordially received by President Harding; he is Mirza Hussein Khan Ali.

November 16.-The British hand a second note to Soviet Russia denying the latter's allegations that charges of Red backing of the Indian revolt are based on forged papers.

France publishes her note of November 8 to London, outlining conditions for recognition of Russian international obligations.

November 17.-France and Italy agree to cooperate in developing aviation in Ecuador.

November 18.-Jugoslavs and Albanians agree before the League Council at Paris to observe the boundary line laid recently by the Council of Ambassadors.

November 23.-Britain signs a treaty with Afghanistan; the former subsidy is dropped, and no Russian Consulates are to be allowed on the Afghan frontier.

November 24.-Dr. William W. Peet, long a leading missionary in Turkey, is appointed as League of Nations Commissioner at Constantinople.

November 25.-The first reduction of American Rhine forces occurs; over 600 troops leave Coblenz for Antwerp to sail home.

December 1.-At Vienna, hungry mobs loot and riot in shops and hotels in protest against high food prices; some Americans are robbed.

December 8.-French Minister Loucheur confers at London with Lloyd George and other officials regarding German reparations; Rathenau (German) remains in London.

December 12.-Chile invites Peru to sanction a plebiscite under the Treaty of Ancon, to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica.

December 14.-The Reparation Commission announces delivery of 756,000,000 gold marks' value of German shipping under Annex III, Part VIII, of the Versailles Treaty.

December 15.-Germany notifies the Reparation Commission she will be unable to pay instalments due in January and February.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH November 15.-At Atlantic City, the executive body of the Presbyterian Church approves budget showing over $4,500,000 for use of foreign missions.

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November 16.-Railway executives announce a general 10 per cent. reduction of rates on farm products effective within ten days; it is estimated to save $55,000,000 yearly.

November 26.-A fire in the business section of Augusta, Ga., destroys $2,000,000 of property; the fire department of Aiken renders material assistance in controlling the blaze.

November 27.-A New Haven motion picture theater burns to the ground in the evening with serious injuries and loss of life to many persons.

At Bismarck, N. D., Marshal Foch smokes the pipe of peace with the Sioux Chief Red Tomahawk; General Foch is named by the Indians "Watapech Wakiga," or "Charging Thunder," as a mark of high honor.

November 30.-A modern "Bluebeard," named Henri Landru, is convicted in France of the murder of ten women and a boy under most unusual circumstances; he is sentenced to the guillotine.

December 5.-At Woodmont, Pa., more than twenty persons are killed and many others injured in a train wreck on a suburban railroad line.

December 7.-Packing house strikers riot in Chicago and nine persons are shot, one killed; 100,000 persons are involved, including women and children, who try to prevent police interference. South St. Paul is patrolled by 400 Minnesota guardsmen and there are riots in Omaha.

December 9.-The daring and courage of Peter F. Dunne, a Bridgeport mechanic, save forty

three comrades trapped in the Submarine S-48, sunk in Long Island Sound on her first trial trip. December 10.-At New Orleans, La., a fire in the business section burns almost an entire block. Operating officials of 52 Eastern railroads announce a 10 per cent. wage reduction of 750,000 train service employees, restoring wages to the scale of the period prior to May 1, 1920.

December 10.-General Armando Diaz boards ship at New York for his native Italy.

The Nobel Peace Prize of 1921 is divided equally between Hjalmar Branting, of Sweden, and Christian L. Lange, of Norway.

December 12.-At Franklin, Kan., 2000 foreign women of strikers form a mob and attack mines nearby, driving workers away with red pepper and stones; troops are sent to maintain order.

Foreign Exchanges rise rapidly, sterling touching $4.24; francs rise 43 points, lira 20, guilders 35, and marks .06.

December 14.-Marshal Foch and René Viviani return to France.

OBITUARY

November 16.-Louis Martin, widely known New York restaurateur... Charles R. Cross, professor emeritus of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 73.

November 17.-John B. Bogart, city editor of the New York Sun for nearly twenty years, 75. November 22.-Christine Nilsson, noted Swedish operatic soprano and a great beauty, 78. Etienne Boutroux, a distinguished professor of philosophy, 76.

November 23.-Rear-Admiral Leavitt Curtis Logan, U. S. N., retired, 75.

November 24.-Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, the landscape artist, 76.

November 25.-Ex-Congressman Frank Dunklee Currier, of Canaan, N. H., author of the copyright law, 68.

November 27.-Will Olcott Burr, long editor of the Hartford (Conn.) Times, 78.

November 28.-Lieut.-Col. Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the famous "Lost Battalion," which cut a most heroic figure in the war.

November 29.-Ivan Caryll (Felix Tilkin), well-known musical comedy composer, 59.

November 30.-Abdul Baha Abass, leader of the Bahai religious movement, 77.. Baron Mount Stephen, Canadian railroad pioneer, 92. December 2.-Rev. Augustus Hopkins Strong, D. D., of Rochester, N. Y., well-known Baptist theologian, 85.

December 5.-James F. Brown, of Charleston, W. Va., prominent lawyer, 69.

December 8.-Henry Delaware Flood, for twenty years a Democratic Congressman from Virginia, and long chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 56.

December 9.-Sir Arthur Pearson, British newspaper proprietor, who devoted his lates years to work for the blind, 55.

December 10.-Victor Jacobi, co operettas, 37.

December 11.-Thomas W nadian educator and former December 12.-Henr tanooga, twice Repub Commissioner of Pe