Chapter 248
Nov. 14--Austrian aeroplane drops bombs on Antivari.
Nov. 15--Prince Danilo's villa in Antivari wrecked by aeroplane bomb.
Nov. 21--French and British aeroplanes drop bombs on Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen; one French airman shot down.
Nov. 24--Aeroplane bomb dropped in Warsaw street kills several people and narrowly misses American Consulate; airmen are using steel arrows to drop from aeroplanes.
Nov. 26--British aviator wrecks German military train.
Nov. 29--German aviators drop bombs on Lodz; French aviators drop circulars inviting German soldiers to desert.
Dec. 5--Aeroplane bombs dropped near Baden.
Dec. 6--Russian aviators attack Breslau forts; French aviators attack Freiburg.
Dec. 7--Major Gen. von Meyer killed by an arrow dropped by an aviator; Ostend set on fire by aeroplane bombs; ten killed at Hazebrouck by bomb dropped by German aviator.
Dec. 8--German airmen drop appeals to Indian troops to desert British.
Dec. 9--Aviator of Allies destroys Scheldt pontoon bridge at Antwerp; Belgian aviator destroys three German motor trucks and scatters cavalry detachment.
Dec. 12--German airman who dropped bombs on Hazebrouck killed by French sh.e.l.ls.
Dec. 16--British and French aviators are making raids almost daily into German territory.
Dec. 18--French aviators drop bombs in Lorraine.
Dec. 19--Two German aviators stranded on a Danish island and interned in Denmark.
Dec. 20--German aeroplane drops bomb on Calais.
Dec. 21--Aviators of Allies drop bombs in Brussels and make night attack near Ostend.
Dec. 22--Deschamps, Belgian aviator, killed by his own bomb.
Dec. 24--German aeroplane, trying to reach Paris, is shot down; German aviator drops bomb in Dover.
Dec. 25--Two German aviators fly up the Thames, but are routed
Dec. 26--Zeppelin drops bombs on Nancy; German aeroplanes make raid in Russian Poland; French aviators attack Metz.
Dec. 30--German airmen drop bombs in Dunkirk, killing fifteen; French aviators active in Flanders.
Jan. 1--German aeroplanes bombard Dunkirk.
Jan. 3--Austrian aviator drops bombs on Kielce.
Jan. 4--French aviators drop bombs near Brussels.
AMERICAN INTERESTS.
Oct. 30--Slight damage to American property in bombardment of Odessa.
Oct. 31--American Refugee Society formed in the United States.
Nov. 10--Henry Field, grandson of the late Marshall Field, is serving as a British Army chauffeur.
Nov. 13--British authorities demand that Americans show pa.s.sports on embarking for home.
Nov. 19--American Consulate in Berlin takes charge of the work of finding American baggage in Germany.
Nov. 25--Rush for new pa.s.sports by Americans in London.
Nov. 28--American Amba.s.sador to Turkey says American missionaries are not being molested.
Dec. 28--American Government sends memorandum to British Government through Amba.s.sador Page vigorously protesting against interference with American commerce by British wars.h.i.+ps; American Relief Committee in London still busy, and renews lease of its offices.
Dec. 31--Full text of American note on British interference with American trade is given out in full simultaneously at Was.h.i.+ngton and London; the war has cost the United States $382,000,000 in decreased exports up to Dec. 1, according to statement issued by Department of Commerce.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Oct. 17--Men formerly found physically unfit to be now re-examined.
Oct. 20--Wounded fill Budapest and South Austrian towns.
Oct. 21--Troops rushed from Italian frontier to strengthen German line in Belgium; Gen. Bruderman, defender of Lemberg, disgraced.
Oct. 27--Acute distress in Southern Hungary; there are reports of sedition in the army.
Oct. 30--France is arranging for repatriation of Austrian citizens.
Nov. 3--It is reported that Austria is seeking a separate peace.
Nov. 10--Lists of losses show that many Hungarian n.o.bles have been killed in battle.
Nov. 12--Army mutineers are shot.
Nov. 22--Cholera in Przemysl.
Dec. 2--Hungarian Chamber of Deputies votes war bills.
Dec. 3--Opposition members of Hungarian Parliament are bitter against the Germans.
Dec. 6--Defenses of Vienna are being strengthened.
Dec. 8--No music after midnight allowed in Vienna; 60,000 wounded are in hospital there.