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Jan. 2--Anti-German feeling is growing.
Jan. 4--Germans put Young Turks under oath to support present regime.
Jan. 5--The Pope obtains release of French Catholic missionaries held in Syria.
RELIEF WORK.
Oct. 16--Cardinal Gibbons appeals for Belgians.
Oct. 22--Dollar Christmas Fund for Belgians is organized; Belgian Relief Committee cables $50,000 to Belgians through Amba.s.sador Page.
Oct. 24--British Government lifts embargo on foodstuffs for Belgium.
Oct. 27--Gov. Glynn names New York State Committee of Mercy; Salvation Army starts "self-denial period."
Oct. 30--Rohilla, British hospital s.h.i.+p, runs on rocks on Yorks.h.i.+re coast; it is believed 100 perished; American Commission sends foodstuffs to Belgium.
Oct. 31--King of the Belgians appeals to the American people for help; American Red Cross unit leaves Petrograd for Kiev; Queen Mary sends thanks for sending of relief s.h.i.+p Red Cross.
Nov. 2--Rockefeller Foundation is to investigate conditions in Belgium; Commission for Relief in Belgium now on an international basis.
Nov. 3--Ma.s.sapequa, Rockefeller Foundation relief s.h.i.+p, sails.
Nov. 4--Fas.h.i.+on Fete in New York for benefit of Committee of Mercy.
Nov. 7--Committee formed in England to find work for Belgian refugees; American Women's Fund in England presents motor ambulances to British War Office.
Nov. 9--New York's gifts exceed $1,525,000.
Nov. 11--Wealthy Belgians give $3,000,000 to relief.
Nov. 12--Queen Mary visits the American Women's War Hospital at Paignton, Devons.h.i.+re.
Nov. 13--Two American Red Cross units in Germany; two more Rockefeller Foundation relief s.h.i.+ps to sail.
Nov. 17--Amba.s.sador von Bernstorff presents statement to Secretary Bryan that Germany welcomes American a.s.sistance for Belgians.
Nov. 18--Cardinal Mercier sends appeal to America for help for Belgians.
Nov. 20--Cardinal Farley directs special collection for war sufferers.
Nov. 22--Kansas to give 50,000 barrels of flour.
Nov. 23--Rockefeller Foundation will rush relief to wide area; it is planned to send supplies to Austria, Servia, and Russia; Ma.s.sapequa unloaded at Rotterdam.
Nov. 25--American Christmas s.h.i.+p Jason, with 5,000,000 Christmas gifts for European children, enters Plymouth escorted by wars.h.i.+ps; Rockefeller Foundation investigating agents leave England for the Continent; American Relief Clearing House organized to centralize American relief in Europe.
Nov. 26--Southern and Western States are contributing liberally; American colony in Berlin gives up Thanksgiving dinner to hold entertainment for benefit of war sufferers.
Nov. 28--Jason sails from Devonport to Ma.r.s.eilles; American hospital, gift of American colony, opened in Petrograd.
Nov. 29--Four s.h.i.+ps to be sent by Rockefeller Foundation before Jan. 1.
Dec. 1--American Commission for Relief in Belgium to manage all Belgian relief.
Dec. 2--Prince of Wales Fund reaches $20,000,000; Virginia is to send a s.h.i.+pload of food and supplies this month.
Dec. 3--Amba.s.sador Gerard cables that Germans approve America's relief work.
Dec. 4--American students at Oxford take up relief work in Belgium.
Dec. 5--Batiscan, British steamer, sails with food for Belgians under safe conduct from Germany; charity bazaar for benefit of German and Austrian soldiers opens in New York.
Dec. 6--New Belgian relief plan is started with capital supplied by the Belgian, British, and French Governments; Jason sails for Genoa.
Dec. 8--Two sections of American Red Cross leave Italy for Servia.
Dec. 9--Polish-American Relief Committee formed.
Dec. 10--Fund for the Forgotten Poor of Servia formed.
Dec. 12--American Red Cross s.h.i.+ps large consignment of hospital supplies; Rockefeller Foundation steamer Niches sails with a $400,000 cargo; Antwerp is suffering from lack of flour; American Consul Diederich asks bread for his family.
Dec. 15--Thirty-five carloads of food arrive in New York for the Belgians from the South and West; Jason leaves Genoa for Salonika.
Dec. 17--American commission report shows that cargoes of relief supplies valued at over $10,000,000 have been delivered or arranged for; Dr. Alexis Carrel is making an inspection tour of the French military hospitals.
Dec. 19--W.W. Astor contributes $125,000 for needy families of British officers; American hospital opened in Nice for wounded French soldiers; large American Red Cross consignment of supplies sent to Russia.
Dec. 20--German bazaar closes, with receipts of $300,000.
Dec. 23--King of the Belgians sends message of thanks to America.
Dec. 28--It is planned that every State shall send a food s.h.i.+p to Belgium.
Dec. 29--Total amount given by the United States for Belgium through the Belgium Relief Committee is $1,490,000.
Dec. 31--Steamer Ma.s.sapequa, sent by Rockefeller Foundation, sails on her second voyage with supplies for Belgians; Rockefeller Foundation has thus far spent more than $1,000,000 on relief; sailing of the fifth Belgian relief s.h.i.+p to leave Philadelphia.
Jan. 1--Rockefeller Foundation buys 6,000,000 bushels of wheat in the Chicago market for Belgians.
Jan. 3--s.h.i.+pload of food to be sent from United States to the Albanians.
Jan. 5--Minister Brand Whitlock sends message that Germany will give Americans free hands in sending supplies to Belgium; British and German Governments require that s.h.i.+ps for Belgium shall carry no other cargo than supplies; food s.h.i.+p sent by State of Kansas sails; British War Office sends thanks for American a.s.sistance.
Jan. 7--French Government thanks Americans for work done by Lafayette Fund; Ohio, Nebraska, Maryland, and Virginia will send food s.h.i.+ps this week.
