March 1--Official note issued in Paris states that there are 2,080,000
Germans and Austrians on the Russian and Serbian front, and 1,800,000
Germans on the French and Belgian front.
March 5--War Minister introduces bill in Chamber of Deputies giving
authorization to call to the colors the recruits of 1915 and to start
training those of 1916.
March 6--French Press Bureau estimates the total German losses since the
beginning of the war, in killed, wounded, sick, and prisoners, at
3,000,000.
March 10--Foreign Office issues report on treatment of French civilian
prisoners by the Germans, charging many instances of cruelty.
March 11--Eight thousand German and Austrian houses have been
sequestered to date; bill introduced into Chamber of Deputies provides
for burning of soldiers' bodies as a precaution against possible
epidemic of disease; Mi-Carême festivities omitted because of the war.
March 12--Fine of $100,000, to be paid before March 20, is imposed on
inhabitants of Lille, in hands of the Germans, because of a
demonstration over a group of French prisoners of war brought into the
city.
March 14--Copenhagen report states that there has been a revolt in
Lille.
March 25--War Ministry denies General von Bernhardi's charge that France
and England had an arrangement for violation of the neutrality of
Belgium.
March 28--A cannon is mentioned in the orders of the day for gallantry
in action; General Joffre decorates thirty men for gallantry in action
in the Champagne district.
March 31--Intense indignation is expressed by the French press over
sinking of British passenger steamer Falaba by German submarine.