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 of Louvain invited to University of Notre
Dame.
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 document 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.