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UK Sep-Dec 1911

- The British government announces changes to its policies concerning Germany and Japan:


 * From the beginning of next year the Suez Canal will be closed off to Japanese and German cargo, and ships carrying goods for either nation will be boarded and their cargo confiscated.


 * Diplomatic relations with the two will now be severed, with British embassies to be closed.


 * Britain calls on Japan to end its occupation of the Korean peninsula, and allow free elections to be held in the state. Until then it can never be called the liberator of Asia.

- The British Pacific Fleet at Darwin is reinforced by several dreadnoughts and many battleships.

- A rally in British Raj supporting Anglo-Indian cooperation is attended by close on 10,000, though also a sizeable amount of protestors.

- An ambitious project to build a Trans-African railway, like the Trans-Siber of five years ago, is announced at Alexandria, which is declared 'Station 1'.

- Several Royal Navy ships are dispatched to Split and other Balkan ports, to evacuate British citizens from the new Austro-Hungarian battlefield.