Oct. 16.--Labor Party declares sympathy with Government; London hotels
discharge German and Austrian help.
Oct. 17--Winston Churchill defends sending of marines to Antwerp; he
says relief plans miscarried.
Oct. 18--Anti-German riots in London.
Oct. 19--Irish Nationalists, at meeting in London, take pledge to avenge
Belgium; many arrests for the looting of German shops.
Oct. 20--Germans and Austrians expelled from Brighton.
Oct. 21--All unnaturalized German and Austrian residents between ages of
17 and 45 are to be taken to detention camps.
Oct. 22--Westminster Abbey heavily insured against aeroplane hazard.
Oct. 24--More anti-German riots in London; paintings removed from
National Gallery to places of safety: Kitchener orders sobriety among
soldiers; Germany protests to neutrals against seizure of Germans on
neutral merchant ships.
Oct. 25--John Redmond urges Irish to enlist.
Oct. 27--Government complains that many Germans are getting consular
certificates from American officials by posing as Englishmen.
Nov. 1--British affairs in Turkey turned over to American Embassy.
Nov. 2--Admiralty orders North Sea closed to commerce; Turkish
Ambassador handed his passports.
Nov. 3--Government will not molest American ships carrying cotton to
German ports.
Nov. 4--Americans will fight as First London Machine Battery.
Nov. 5--Proclamation that holy places in Arabia and Mesopotamia must not
be touched.
Nov. 6--Detectives say some London buildings are strong German forts;
large trade in mourning clothes in London; Sweden protests against
closing of North Sea.
Nov. 7--Government thanks United States State Department for help
rendered at Constantinople by Ambassador Morgenthau.
Nov. 8--Japanese Emperor and Empress send thanks for British aid at
Tsing-tau.
Nov. 10--Karl Hans Lody shot as a spy in the Tower of London; when first
arrested he claimed to be an American.
Nov. 11--Germans are exhibiting dumdum bullets which they charge have
been taken from British soldiers.
Nov. 12--Mass meeting in London in support of Kitchener's appeal for
temperance by soldiers.
Nov. 13--Officers sent to Russia to discuss tactics of eastern campaign;
sentry in concentration camp kills a German prisoner.
Nov. 14--Under Secretary of War Tennant urges football players to
enlist.
Nov. 17--War Office denies that British have used dumdum bullets, but
accuses Germans of using them; less crime in the country.
Nov. 20--House of Commons votes additional army of 1,000,000 men.
Nov. 21--Balfour says there must be no patched-up truce; Somali chiefs
in Jubaland want to join the army; 19,000 members of the Automobile
Association have given their cars for army use.
Nov. 22--Five German rioters killed in detention camp on Isle of Man.
Nov. 23--Newspapers show disgust over failure of attempts to get
football players and spectators to enlist; recruiting is slow in
Manchester; War Office is advertising for officers.
Nov. 25--Coast towns prepare to resist invasion; Indian soldier receives
Victoria Cross; shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man has angered
Germany; reprisals feared.
Nov. 27--Coroner's jury finds that shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man
was justified; London newspapers agree to curtail football news as aid
to recruiting.
Nov. 28--Two German spies found in new army just landed in France;
famous athletes on casualty lists.
Dec. 1--German-born members of Parliament remain away from war sessions.
Dec. 2--Dublin newspaper suppressed for opposing enlistment and
expressing pro-German sentiment.
Dec. 5--Many football players are enlisting.
Dec. 9--Preparations are being made to meet possible German landing.
Dec. 11--Gibraltar is being provisioned.
Dec. 12--German officer found hidden in packing case at Gravesend.
Dec. 14--Government is searching for German wireless station on Norfolk
coast which is blocking messages.
Dec. 16--Movement to form women's volunteer reserve.
Dec. 17--Many Germans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous
cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.
Dec. 19--Many soldiers are insane or have nervous prostration as a
result of battle horrors.
Dec. 21--Some German prisoners of war are being placed on prison ships.
Dec. 23--Germany's offer to exchange one British prisoner of war for
five German prisoners is declined.
Dec. 26--Government has constructed a bridge of boats across the Thames.
Dec. 30--Archbishop of Canterbury appeals for recruits.
Dec. 31--An undercurrent of irritation is evident over the American note
on interference with American commerce; a new decoration, the Military
Cross, has been instituted for the army.
Jan. 3--Day of intercession and prayer throughout the Empire; second
expeditionary force sails for England from Australia; a third force is
being recruited.
Jan. 4--Many men leave their positions in civil life to join the army as
a result of the raid on the coast towns.
Jan. 6--Many clergymen are enlisting.