The Manchester Guardian announced on May 18 that the war treaty
between England, France, Italy, and Russia, which embodied
Italy's terms of entering the war, and which was published by the
Bolshevist Government in Russia on Jan. 26, had been abrogated,
and that its place had been taken by a new treaty.
The Radoslavoff Ministry in Bulgaria resigned June 16.
China and Japan reached an agreement on military affairs,
including the expedition into Siberia, and on other matters on May
20, and the formal compact was signed June 2. A naval convention
had been signed May 23.
The Belgian Foreign Minister, Charles de Broqueville, resigned on
June 3. He was succeeded by M. Cooreman, former President of the
House of Representatives.
A memorandum presented to the American State Department and made
public on June 14 showed that Belgians were still being deported
and were compelled to work behind the German lines.
On June 12 the lower house of the Prussian Diet adopted the
fourth reading of the suffrage bill, including provision for
the proportional representation of the mixed language districts
of the eastern provinces, and also passed bills settling the
composition of the upper house and providing for a revision of the
Constitution.
Peru seized interned German ships of 50,000 tonnage at Callao,
June 15.
Costa Rica declared war against Germany May 23.