Oct. 16--Learned societies plan expulsion of German members.
Oct. 17--Germans arrested in Paris; coal supply low in Paris; sugar
prices are rising.
Oct. 18--President Poincaré's country house destroyed.
Oct. 20--Military authorities deny German charge that towers of Rheims
Cathedral are used as observation post.
Oct. 21--Baron de Coubertin will train young men who would normally
enter the army in 1916; Germany protests against alleged cruelties.
Oct. 22--It is reported that 500,000 new soldiers are ready to fight.
Oct. 24--Lille and Rheims have been much damaged by German shells;
exchange of civilians with Germany begins.
Oct. 26--German property in France not confiscated, but taken into
trusteeship.
Oct. 28--Many volunteer to give their blood to help Dr. Carrel in saving
the wounded.
Oct. 29--Count de Chambrun shells his own home.
Oct. 30--Château of Princess Hohenlohe seized.
Nov. 1--Envoy asks for passports from Turkey; French affairs turned over
to American Embassy.
Nov. 4--Officers discard swords and conspicuous uniforms; they will
direct charges from rear to foil German sharpshooters.
Nov. 7--City of Roulers in ruins.
Nov. 8--Premier Viviani decorates Mayor of Rheims and says city will be
rebuilt.
Nov. 9--Military attachés of neutral countries allowed to visit theatre
of war.
Nov. 10--Rheims still being bombarded.
Nov. 18--Germans declare they saw observation post on towers of Rheims
Cathedral; bombardment resumed; Appenrodt's restaurant looted in Paris.
Nov. 19--Germans are working coal mines and mills in occupied French
territory; President Poincaré strikes names of Germans from roll of
Legion of Honor.
Nov. 21--New field gun outranges German guns.
Nov. 26--German surgeons and deaconesses sentenced to prison for
looting.
Nov. 28--Regimental dispatch dog mentioned in orders as having fallen in
duty; Germans charge use of dumdum bullets by the French.
Dec. 1--Gen. Joffre tells Alsatians that the French have come back
permanently.
Dec. 4--Youths 18 years old are called for military examination;
Mohammedan soldiers from Tunis are being sent to serve in Europe;
Germans charge brutalities to Germans in Morocco.
Dec. 11--The Cabinet meets in Paris, marking the moving of the capital
from Bordeaux; youths of class of 1915 go into training.
Dec. 13--Full text of France's "Yellow Book" published in THE NEW YORK
TIMES; postal notice announces that letters to twenty-one communes in
Alsace need only ordinary stamps.
Dec. 14--Man who mutilated German sentry is shot.
Dec. 17--Priests hold mass in the trenches; French heroism lauded at
meeting of French Academy; but a small percentage of the wounded are
dying.
Dec. 18--French court held in Alsace.
Dec. 19--Lille is near starvation.
Dec. 22--Premier Viviani makes address at opening of Parliament in
Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of
Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and assurance of lasting peace.
Dec. 25--Portion of Alsace celebrates Christmas under French rule.
Jan. 7--French Cabinet makes public report of Government Commission
which has been investigating German methods of waging war; report
charges Germans with habitual "pillage, outrage, burning, and murder."