May 29.-The first elected Parliament of the Czechoslovak Republic, by vote of 284 to 61, chooses Thomas Carrique Masaryk President.

May 30. The British Cabinet consults Lord French, Sir Hamar Greenwood, and General Sir Nevill Macready regarding Home Rule and the new crisis in Ireland.

June 1.-The Mexican Provisional President, Adolfo de la Huerta, is inducted into office.

June 2.-Dr. Manuel Gondra (formerly Minister to the United States) is elected President of Paraguay.

June 3.-The British House of Commons debates the Irish Home Rule bill.

June 6.-German elections give Majority Socialists 110 seats in the Reichstag; Independent Socialists, 80; Centrists, 67; Nationalists, 65; People's Party, 61; and Democrats, 45: in a total vote of 25,100,576.

The Mexican Provisional President announces that elections for Congress will be held August 1, and for President September 5.

June 9.-Premier Nitti and his Italian Cabinet resign, failing support on annulment of bread price restrictions; Signor Orlando resigns as president of the Chamber.

June 10.-Premier Semeden, of Hungary, resigns with his cabinet.

June 11.-The Austrian Cabinet, under Dr. Karl Renner, resigns.

June 14.-A new Australian Governor-General, Baron Henry William Forster, is appointed to succeed Sir Ronald C. Munro-Ferguson.

June 15.-General Wrangel's South-Russian army captures 4000 Bolsheviki and 40 guns in a well-equipped offensive from the Crimea. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

May 18.-France withdraws her troops from cities in the Ruhr Valley, Germany having fulfilled the Allied terms.

Bolshevik troops cross the Persian frontier at Astara and force withdrawal of British troops. Raymond Poincaré resigns from the Reparations Commission; the Hythe Conference is reported to have agreed that Germany shall pay an indemnity of $60,000,000,000 in thirty years. May 21.-A new Siberian buffer state, Verkhnie Udinsk, is formed from territories east of Lake Baikal under M. Krasnosholkoff.

The Persian Foreign Minister protests to the League of Nations against Bolshevik invasion. May 22.-President Wilson accepts the Allied invitation to fix the boundaries of Armenia.

Martial law is declared in the Teschen plebiscite area by the Interallied Commission because of riots between Poles and Czechoslovaks.

May 23.-Bolsheviki in Persia capture the Denikine fleet of cruisers and transports.

Poles hold a ninety-mile front against attacks by reinforced Bolsheviki, who seek to open communication with East Prussia.

May 25.-The salmon fisheries treaty between the United States and Canada is signed.

The Dutch Government announces suspension of treaty negotiations with Belgium, due to differences over sovereignty of the Wielingen Passage, Belgium desiring it for the protection of Zeebrugge.

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May 26.-Germany begins restoration Louvain at a cost of 5,000,000 francs gold; France and Belgium each receive from Germany nearly 8,000,000,000 marks in cash and securities, and large quantities of art works and documents.

The new British Ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes is received by President Wilson with Ambassador Alencar of Brazil. . Viscount Sutemi Chinda, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, is succeeded by Baron Gonsuke Hayashi.

May 27.-Gregory Krassin, head of the Bolshevist Commercial Commission, arrives at London and joins representatives of Russian cooperatives for a trade conference with the Allies.

May 29.-Greek troops begin the occupation of Bulgarian Thrace, without incident.

May 31.-Canadians and West Indians enter into conference at Ottawa for closer trade and political relations.

June 1.-At Paris, American Ambassador Wallace signs the Inter-Allied Aerial Navigation Convention with reservations protecting American sovereignty and customs duties; this treaty must receive ratification by the Senate.

Pope Benedict, in an encyclical on "Christian Reconciliation," rescinds the veto of Pius IX on official visits of Catholic sovereigns to the King at Rome.

June 3.-On the Polish front, the Bolsheviki succeed in flanking and driving back General Pilsudski's troops.

New credits for Central European countries are arranged as follows, mainly as raw materials and food: Denmark, 12,000,000 kroner; Norway, 17,000,000 kroner; Sweden, 10,000,000 kroner; Britain £10,000,000; Holland, 12,500,000 florins; Switzerland, 15,000,000 francs.

June 4.-Hungary signs a treaty of peace, including the League of Nations, at Versailles; Ambassador Wallace signs for the United States.

June 6.-Turkey is granted a fifteen-day extension of time to present views about the treaty. June 9.-Poles annihilate Bolshevist Third and Twelfth Divisions and occupy Czarnica.

June 10.-Intrigue puts 15,000 Albanians on the war path against Italian troops of occupation, who withdraw in many places.

June 13.-The International Suffrage Alliance Congress at Geneva closes.

June 14.-Kiev, in the Ukraine, is evacuated by the Poles in the face of a heavy cavalry attack; the Bolsheviki concentrate thirty divisions of reinforcements at this front.

The Mexican Provisional Government recovers 3,733,604 pesos gold and 1,000,935 pesos silver from the late President's train; this with other funds turns a deficit into a surplus.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH May 17.-In Omaha, Neb., all stores reduce prices on wearing apparel from 20 to 50 per cent. The Interchurch World Movement decides to reduce expenditures from $1,000,000 a month to $150,000, and to raise a fund of $10,000,000 by July 15.

May 21-April exports show a $135,000,000 decrease, and imports fall off $30,000,000; gold imports reach $50,000,000, exports $44,000,000, silver exports $17,000,000, imports $11,000,000.

May 23.-The Russell Sage Foundation places Montana first in public school efficiency in a report by Dr. Leonard P. Ayres.

May 24.-Reports show increased freight movement and a reduction of cars on sidings from 269,000 to 170,000.

May 25.-The truckmen's strike in New York City, involving a boycott of non-union docks and open-shop factories, brings 3000 merchants into a $500,000 organization to fight by organizing their own trucking system.

May 27.-M. Paul Painlevé, of France, arrives at New York on his way to China with a scientific and technical mission.

May 28.-Gov. Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, and Mr. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, debate the Kansas Industrial Relations law in New York at Carnegie Hall.

New England shoe, woolen, and cotton mills cut down production, close, or go on part time, putting 20,000 men out of work.

May 29.-The Shipping Board charters thirteen former German passenger ships to the United States Mail Steamship Company, 100 per cent. American owned.

New York receives 5000 immigrants; 8275 were landed the previous week.

May 30.-Two large Canadian paper mill companies merge $60,000,000 of property at Ottawa, to produce 650,000 tons of paper.

May 31.-Hundreds of thousands of World War veterans join in Memorial Day parades for the first time, with veterans of the Civil and Spanish American wars.

June 3.-The U. S. S. Tennessee, the largest superdreadnought, is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

June 5.-New York City, according to census figures announced, gained 804,268 in ten years, with present population 5,621,151.

June 6.-The General Education Board distributes for Mr. Rockefeller $20,261,900 to medical schools and other educational institutions.

June 8.-Bar silver prices drop in New York and London to a new low level of 48% d. and 84 cents, with a 10%-cent fall during the day.

June 9.-Los Angeles, with a population of 575,480, outranks San Francisco, and becomes the largest city west of St. Louis.

June 12.-Census reports show 58 cities out of 1100 double their size in 1910; of these 33 are in the North, 17 in the South, and 8 in the West; Akron, Ohio, gains over 200 per cent., attaining 208,435; Chicago retains its place as second largest city with 2,701,212.

OBITUARY

May 19.-Rev. Charles Stewart Davison, missionary to Japan, 43.

May 20.-Brig.-Gen. John M. K. Davis, retired, 76. .. Edgar Dean Crumpacker, exRepresentative from Tenth Indiana District, 67.

May 21.-Brig.-Gen. Frank Taylor, U. S. A., retired, 78.

May 26.-Frederic Beach Jennings, counsel for the Associated Press, 66.

May 27.-James T. DuBois, ex-Minister to Colombia and Consul-General to Switzerland, 69. May 28.-Chaplain Donald McLaren, U. S. N., retired, 86. Rev. Dr. Edwin Pond Parker, of Hartford, Conn., hymn writer, 85.

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May 29.-A. Francis du Pont, of Montreal, 33. Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury, famous mining and metallurgical engineer, 75. May 30.-Col. Alexander S. Bacon, lawyer, writer, and lecturer, 66. Dr. George Morrison, Australian physician, journalist, and political adviser to the President of. China, 58.

June 3.-Rev. Dr. Charles Augustus Stoddard, author and theologian, 87. . . Clifton Crawford, comedian, 45. . . . Francis Marion Burdick, Columbia law professor, 75.

June 4.-William P. Spurgeon, of the Washington Post, 54.

June 5.-Rear-Admiral Albert Gustavus Winterhalter, U. S. N., 64. . Charles Ethan Bil. . Frank Moss,

lings, inventor, merchant, 83. of New York, famous lawyer and reformer, 60. June 9.-Francis Hendricks, ex-State Senator and Republican leader of central New York, 86.

June 11.-Sir Ezekiel McLeod, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, Canada, 79.

June 13.-Mme. Gabrielle Charlotte Réjane, famous French actress and comedienne, 63.

June 14.-Rev. Dr. William Williamson Page, last surviving member of General Robert E. Lee's staff, 80.

June 15.-David Ferguson, famous journalist and veteran reporter, 54.