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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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theBolshevists when fighting with Germany is overand the United States is not at war with Russia. April 12.—The Chief of Staff of the Armyannounces that 686,000 troops have sailed fromoverseas in the five months since the armistice,and that a total of 1,700,000 officers and men havebeen discharged from the army; 1,980,000 remainin the service. April 13.—The Secretary of the Treasury an-nounces the amount and terms of the new Vic-tory Liberty Loan to be offered to the public;$4,500,000,000 in notes will be offered, to run forthree or four years, with interest at 4-)4 per cent,partly tax free, convertible into 3^ per cent,notes free from all taxation. FOREIGN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT March 15.—The Argentine Government seeksto end a strike which has tied up the port ofBuenos Aires, by nationalizing the service ofloading and unloading vessels. March 16.—A new German-Austrian govern-ment is reported established at Vienna, with Dr.Renner as Chancellor. RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS 473 I
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© Harris & Ewing THE SPECIAL FILIPINO COMMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES. PRESENTING AN APPEAL FOR INDEPENDENCE (In the center of the group, between Secretary Baker and General March, is Manuel Quezon, for many yearsResident Commissioner at Washington and now Presiden-t of the Philippine Senate) March 18.—The new Socialist Premier of Ba-varia, Herr Hoffmann, outlines his program; theDiet abolishes the nobility and prohibits rightsof inheritance. Disorders in Egypt, in furtherance of the Na-tionalists demand for autonomy, are admitted byGovernment leaders in the British House of Com-mons. March 22.—Upon the resignation of the Karolyicabinet—coincident with the occupation of Hun-gary by Allied armies—a dictatorship of theproletariat is proclaimed by Workers, Peasantsand Soldiers Councils, with a program of sociali-zation of estates and industries. March 24.—Martial law is proclaimed through-out Spain as a result of a general strike in Bar-celona. March 25.—A new Socialist

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