Chapter 256
RESERVISTS.
Oct. 28--England orders enemy's reservists on the high seas to be seized.
Nov. 16--Arrests result from attempt to smuggle Austrian reservists into the United States from Canada.
Nov. 20--Austrian reservists stranded in New York say Consuls have neglected them.
Nov. 21--Danish and Swedish reservists in Canada told to report for duty.
Dec. 2--Belgian reservists of cla.s.ses from 1899 to 1914 summoned by Consul General in New York.
Dec. 12--French reservist living in Northern Canada walks 1,300 miles to the nearest railway station to start for the front.
Jan. 2--Four German reservists taken off Norwegian-American liner Bergenfjord in New York Harbor and placed under arrest; extensive fraudulent pa.s.sport plot is charged.
Jan. 4--John Doe warrants issued for reservists holding fraudulent pa.s.sports; Bureau of Investigation of Department of Justice is conducting inquiry in Philadelphia.
Jan. 6--Federal Grand Jury in New York is to investigate.
[Ill.u.s.tration: South-eastern Theatre of the War]