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Aug. 7--Rush of volunteers; Prince of Wales receives commission in Grenadier Guards; Emba.s.sies stoned in Dresden and Berlin.
Aug. 8--Parliament pa.s.ses bill providing for Government seizure of foodstuffs; Capt. Fox, commander of the lost Amphion, given new command.
Aug. 9--More Germans arrested.
Aug. 10--Newfoundland offers men; Government acknowledges receipt of President Wilson's offer of good offices.
Aug. 11--King inspects troops at Aldershot; mobilization of Territorials completed; Information Bureau gives out official war news; Admiralty notifies United States of planting of mines in North Sea; Secretary Bryan transmits Germany's request for permission to send messages through London to the United States; Admiralty says Atlantic is safe, but that Germans have laid mines in North Sea.
Aug. 12--Exports of foodstuffs forbidden, no Americans barred.
Aug. 14--Prisoners of War Information Bureau formed; money situation improved; emba.s.sy informs Secretary Bryan of rules governing aliens; Kitchener's plan for raising new army contemplates long war.
Aug. 15--College men volunteer.
Aug. 16--Refugees from Berlin reach Scotland and tell of abuses; J.E.
Redmond says he has rifles for Irish volunteers.
Aug. 17--Government rea.s.sures the United States that j.a.pan's activities will be limited.
Aug. 20--Troops impress French favorably.
Aug. 21--Public told to watch for notes from aeroplanes; country protests against German levy of war tax on Liege and Brussels; press asks President Wilson to try to stop violation of rules of war.
Aug. 22--Admiralty says Germany violates Hague rules by planting mines in North Sea; protest to United States against allowing fuel to be carried to German cruisers at sea.
Aug. 23--Full text of British "White Paper" published in THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Aug. 24--First casualty list of expeditionary army includes Earl of Leven and Melville.
Aug. 25--Kitchener appeals for men; probability of three years' war discussed.
Aug. 26--Recruiting active; Indian Moslems loyal; members of staffs in Munich complain of bad treatment by German military authorities; Daily Chronicle warns against quarrel with United States on contraband question; army's marching song for this war is "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Aug. 27--Army's pluck lauded by Gen. Joffre; Parliament votes expression of admiration of Belgians.
Aug. 28--Sir John French's report on activities of troops read in Parliament; Peeresses sign letter expressing devotion to country.
Aug. 29--Message to Scots Grays from Russian Czar; Lord Roberts says hundreds of thousands of men will be needed and a.s.sails young men who go on playing games; navy congratulated by Canadian Premier and Sir John French.
Aug. 30--Lord Kitchener tells of British share in fighting in Belgium and France and of loss of life, but says troops have been reinforced.
Sept. 1--Government asks United States to care for her interests in event of war with Turkey; Anglo-American corps being formed in London.
Sept. 3--Many recruits join army.
Sept. 4--Asquith, Balfour, Bonar Law, Churchill, and others speak in London Guildhall, appealing for volunteers; 700 Ulster volunteers enroll in one hour.
Sept. 5--Allies sign agreement that none shall make peace without consent of all; official denial that dumdum bullets were used; London agreement regarding contraband will be adhered to as far as is practicable.
Sept. 6--Churchill announces formation of one marine and two naval brigades.
Sept, 8--Gen. Joffre expresses thanks for army's support; Kitchener's reply; five thousand recruits in one day; German prisoners held in concentration camps.
Sept. 9--Government will not consent to peace proposals unless Germany will acknowledge that Belgium is ent.i.tled to redress; troops praised by Belgians.
Sept. 10--House of Commons votes to add 500,000 men to regular army.
Sept. 12--Permission from Greece to establish naval base at Lemnos; complete equipment for Territorials lacking.
Sept. 16--John Redmond calls Irish to arms.
Sept. 17--Prize courts established.
Sept. 19--Lloyd George appeals for Welsh recruits.
Sept. 20--Casualty list shows many officers killed or wounded.
Sept. 21--Percentage of officers in casualty lists out of proportion to number of men.
Sept. 24--Censors.h.i.+p tightened.
Sept. 25--Admiralty publishes report on sinking of three cruisers in North Sea, saying disabled s.h.i.+ps must look after themselves; shortage of rifles denied in London Spectator; Asquith and Redmond appeal to Ireland for aid.
Oct. 4--Thousands of Irish enlist.
Oct. 8--Sportsmen's Battalion organized by Mrs. Cunliffe Owen.
Oct. 9--Government will not allow American army and navy officers to observe operations.
Oct. 11--Loss of officers is a peril.
Oct. 12--Fall of Antwerp aids recruiting; infantry standard lowered to admit more men; London Morning Post condemns Churchill's attempt to relieve Antwerp with small naval force.
Oct. 14--Foreign Office denies existence of secret agreement with Belgium, which Germans charge is shown by doc.u.ments found in Brussels.
*FRANCE.*
July 24--Government will side with Russia in event of hostilities with Austria.
July 25--Paris mobs want war; President Poincare and Premier Viviani absent from France.
July 26--Emergency council of Cabinet held; people see hand of Germany.
July 27--Government agrees to Sir Edward Grey's proposal for conference to avert conflict; general impression that Germany inspired Austria's act; President Poincare hurries home; anti-war demonstrations in Paris; Amba.s.sador tries to enlist Germany's aid for mediation.
July 28--Army moves to frontier; Socialists protest against war.
