Chapter 249
Dec. 10--Czech regiments refuse to fight against Servia.
Dec. 16--Anti-war riots in some cities.
Dec. 17--Emperor orders displacement of Field Marshal Potiorek because of defeat in Servian campaign.
Dec. 22--Many soldiers killed in troop train accident.
Dec. 23--Discontent is being manifested in Hungary; independence movement gains headway.
Dec. 30--Anti-war riots throughout the country; Servian campaign is abandoned.
Dec. 31--Emperor issues a New Year's rescript to the army and navy, praising bravery of soldiers and sailors.
Jan. 2--Conditions in Trieste are distressing.
BELGIUM.
Oct. 16--People delay returning to Antwerp, where Germans are levying on city for supplies; refugees flock to Dover.
Oct. 18--Full text of Belgium's "Gray Paper" published in THE NEW YORK TIMES; movement to secure supplies in England; famine acute.
Oct. 19--Fifty thousand refugees return from Holland; there are nearly 1,000,000 refugees in Great Britain, France, and Holland.
Oct. 21--British Official Press Bureau praises Belgian Army; Cardinal Mercier returns to Belgium from Holland and urges all Catholic refugees to follow him; water supply restored and tramways running in Antwerp; Brussels now governed as a German city.
Oct. 22--Government denies anti-German plot with England before the war and calls on German press to print alleged records of such plot seized at Brussels.
Oct. 24--German public is stirred by stories of brutalities by Belgian civilians toward wounded Germans.
Oct. 26--Millions are facing starvation.
Oct. 28--One-fourth of the Belgian Army is disabled.
Oct. 29--Many Belgian wounded in Calais.
Oct. 31--Maeterlinck says that buildings in Brussels have been mined.
Nov. 12--Sightseers visit Louvain; city is being restored.
Nov. 16--Fuel supply problem is becoming serious.
Nov. 18--Faculty of University
Nov. 21--German Information Service says that Belgians interned in Holland are bitter against the British for lack of sufficient aid at Antwerp.
Nov. 22--Mayor of Ypres shot by Allies as a spy.
Nov. 23--Maeterlinck appeals to the United States and Italy to save Flemish art treasures.
Nov. 24--Encounters are frequent between smugglers and Germans at Dutch border.
Nov. 26--Germany publishes photographic reproduction of doc.u.ment which, it charges, proves Anglo-Belgian military agreement.
Nov. 30--Rotterdam reports that Germany has decided to levy a tax of $7,000,000 a month on Belgium, and an additional tax of $75,000,000.
Dec. 13--Brussels and suburbs decide to pay fine to Germans.
Dec. 15--Provincial councils ordered by German Governor General to meet to consider payment of tax; bankers prepare to pay it.
Dec. 20--Representatives of provinces agree to pay tax.
Dec. 23--Report from London that Brussels tax has been waived and that the American Minister protested against its imposition.
Dec. 26--Neutral nations notified by Germany that Consuls will not be recognized further.
Dec. 28--Minister to United States protests against cancellation of consular exequaturs by Germany.
Dec. 29--Belgian authorities point out to United States that Germany's decision to cancel exequaturs raises question of sovereignty in Belgium.
Jan. 3--Ghent taxes bachelors to meet German demands.
CANADA.
Oct. 16--Canadian troops go into camp at Salisbury Plain, England.
Oct. 19--There are a considerable number of men from New York in camp at Salisbury Plain.
Oct. 21--Americans in Montreal supply funds for armored motor cars with American crews.
Oct. 29--Border residents apprehensive of raids by Germans and Austrians living in United States.
Nov. 3--German newspaper in the West ordered to stop printing seditious matter.
Nov. 4--King and Queen visit troops on Salisbury Plain.
Nov. 6--Indians contribute to war fund and offer to send warriors.
Nov. 7--Soldiers go sightseeing in London.
Nov. 8--Major Gen. Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defense, returns from England; he says troops are well, but will not go to front for some time; they are to have additional training.
Nov. 11--Mines laid near Victoria.
Nov. 14--Premier Borden says hosts of men are volunteering.
Nov. 18--Men in Canadian regiments who are said to be of German blood are rejected by British authorities.