The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Dec. 9--Preparations are being made to meet possible German landing.
Dec. 11--Gibraltar is being provisioned.
Dec. 12--German officer found hidden in packing case at Gravesend.
Dec. 14--Government is searching for German wireless station on Norfolk coast which is blocking messages.
Dec. 16--Movement to form women's volunteer reserve.
Dec. 17--Many Germans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.
Dec. 19--Many soldiers are insane or have nervous prostration as a result of battle horrors.
Dec. 21--Some German prisoners of war are being placed on prison s.h.i.+ps.
Dec. 23--Germany's offer to exchange one British prisoner of war for five German prisoners is declined.
Dec. 26--Government has constructed a bridge of boats across the Thames.
Dec. 30--Archbishop of Canterbury appeals for recruits.
Dec. 31--An undercurrent of irritation is evident over the American note on interference with American commerce; a new decoration, the Military Cross, has been inst.i.tuted for the army.
Jan. 3--Day of intercession and prayer throughout the Empire; second expeditionary force sails for England from Australia; a third force is being recruited.
Jan. 4--Many men leave their positions in civil life to join the army as a result of the raid on the coast towns.
Jan. 6--Many clergymen are enlisting.
FRANCE.
Oct. 16--Learned societies plan expulsion of German members.
Oct. 17--Germans arrested in Paris; coal supply low in Paris; sugar prices are rising.
Oct. 18--President Poincare's country house destroyed.
Oct. 20--Military authorities deny German charge that towers of Rheims Cathedral are used as observation post.
Oct. 21--Baron de Coubertin will train young men who would normally enter the army in 1916; Germany protests against alleged cruelties.
Oct. 22--It is reported that 500,000 new soldiers are ready to fight.
Oct. 24--Lille and Rheims have been much damaged by German sh.e.l.ls; exchange of civilians with Germany begins.
Oct. 26--German property in France not confiscated, but taken into trustees.h.i.+p.
Oct. 28--Many volunteer to give their blood to help Dr. Carrel in saving the wounded.
Oct. 29--Count de Chambrun sh.e.l.ls his own home.
Oct. 30--Chateau of Princess Hohenlohe seized.
Nov. 1--Envoy asks for pa.s.sports from Turkey; French affairs turned over to American Emba.s.sy.
Nov. 4--Officers discard swords and conspicuous uniforms; they will direct charges from rear to foil German sharpshooters.
Nov. 7--City of Roulers in ruins.
Nov. 8--Premier Viviani decorates Mayor of Rheims and says city will be rebuilt.
Nov. 9--Military attaches of neutral countries allowed to visit theatre of war.
Nov. 10--Rheims still being bombarded.
Nov. 18--Germans declare they saw observation post on towers of Rheims Cathedral; bombardment resumed; Appenrodt's restaurant looted in Paris.
Nov. 19--Germans are working coal mines and mills in occupied French territory; President Poincare strikes names of Germans from roll of Legion of Honor.
Nov. 21--New field gun outranges German guns.
Nov. 26--German surgeons and deaconesses sentenced to prison for looting.
Nov. 28--Regimental dispatch dog mentioned in orders as having fallen in duty; Germans charge use of dumdum bullets by the French.
Dec. 1--Gen. Joffre tells Alsatians that the French have come back permanently.
Dec. 4--Youths 18 years old are called for military examination; Mohammedan soldiers from Tunis are being sent to serve in Europe; Germans charge brutalities to Germans in Morocco.
Dec. 11--The Cabinet meets in Paris, marking the moving of the capital from Bordeaux; youths of cla.s.s of 1915 go into training.
Dec. 13--Full text of France's "Yellow Book" published in THE NEW YORK TIMES; postal notice announces that letters to twenty-one communes in Alsace need only ordinary stamps.
Dec. 14--Man who mutilated German sentry is shot.
Dec. 17--Priests hold ma.s.s in the trenches; French heroism lauded at meeting of French Academy; but a small percentage of the wounded are dying.
Dec. 18--French court held in Alsace.
Dec. 19--Lille is near starvation.
Dec. 22--Premier Viviani makes address at opening of Parliament in Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and a.s.surance of lasting peace.
Dec. 25--Portion of Alsace celebrates Christmas under French rule.
Jan. 7--French Cabinet makes public report of Government Commission which has been investigating German methods of waging war; report charges Germans with habitual "pillage, outrage, burning, and murder."
