Oct. 16--Cardinal Gibbons appeals for Belgians.
Oct. 22--Dollar Christmas Fund for Belgians is organized; Belgian Relief
Committee cables $50,000 to Belgians through Ambassador Page.
Oct. 24--British Government lifts embargo on foodstuffs for Belgium.
Oct. 27--Gov. Glynn names New York State Committee of Mercy; Salvation
Army starts "self-denial period."
Oct. 30--Rohilla, British hospital ship, runs on rocks on Yorkshire
coast; it is believed 100 perished; American Commission sends foodstuffs
to Belgium.
Oct. 31--King of the Belgians appeals to the American people for help;
American Red Cross unit leaves Petrograd for Kiev; Queen Mary sends
thanks for sending of relief ship Red Cross.
Nov. 2--Rockefeller Foundation is to investigate conditions in Belgium;
Commission for Relief in Belgium now on an international basis.
Nov. 3--Massapequa, Rockefeller Foundation relief ship, sails.
Nov. 4--Fashion Fete in New York for benefit of Committee of Mercy.
Nov. 7--Committee formed in England to find work for Belgian refugees;
American Women's Fund in England presents motor ambulances to British
War Office.
Nov. 9--New York's gifts exceed $1,525,000.
Nov. 11--Wealthy Belgians give $3,000,000 to relief.
Nov. 12--Queen Mary visits the American Women's War Hospital at
Paignton, Devonshire.
Nov. 13--Two American Red Cross units in Germany; two more Rockefeller
Foundation relief ships to sail.
Nov. 17--Ambassador von Bernstorff presents statement to Secretary Bryan
that Germany welcomes American assistance for Belgians.
Nov. 18--Cardinal Mercier sends appeal to America for help for Belgians.
Nov. 20--Cardinal Farley directs special collection for war sufferers.
Nov. 22--Kansas to give 50,000 barrels of flour.
Nov. 23--Rockefeller Foundation will rush relief to wide area; it is
planned to send supplies to Austria, Servia, and Russia; Massapequa
unloaded at Rotterdam.
Nov. 25--American Christmas ship Jason, with 5,000,000 Christmas gifts
for European children, enters Plymouth escorted by warships; Rockefeller
Foundation investigating agents leave England for the Continent;
American Relief Clearing House organized to centralize American relief
in Europe.
Nov. 26--Southern and Western States are contributing liberally;
American colony in Berlin gives up Thanksgiving dinner to hold
entertainment for benefit of war sufferers.
Nov. 28--Jason sails from Devonport to Marseilles; American hospital,
gift of American colony, opened in Petrograd.
Nov. 29--Four ships to be sent by Rockefeller Foundation before Jan. 1.
Dec. 1--American Commission for Relief in Belgium to manage all Belgian
relief.
Dec. 2--Prince of Wales Fund reaches $20,000,000; Virginia is to send a
shipload of food and supplies this month.
Dec. 3--Ambassador Gerard cables that Germans approve America's relief
work.
Dec. 4--American students at Oxford take up relief work in Belgium.
Dec. 5--Batiscan, British steamer, sails with food for Belgians under
safe conduct from Germany; charity bazaar for benefit of German and
Austrian soldiers opens in New York.
Dec. 6--New Belgian relief plan is started with capital supplied by the
Belgian, British, and French Governments; Jason sails for Genoa.
Dec. 8--Two sections of American Red Cross leave Italy for Servia.
Dec. 9--Polish-American Relief Committee formed.
Dec. 10--Fund for the Forgotten Poor of Servia formed.
Dec. 12--American Red Cross ships large consignment of hospital
supplies; Rockefeller Foundation steamer Niches sails with a $400,000
cargo; Antwerp is suffering from lack of flour; American Consul
Diederich asks bread for his family.
Dec. 15--Thirty-five carloads of food arrive in New York for the
Belgians from the South and West; Jason leaves Genoa for Salonika.
Dec. 17--American commission report shows that cargoes of relief
supplies valued at over $10,000,000 have been delivered or arranged for;
Dr. Alexis Carrel is making an inspection tour of the French military
hospitals.
Dec. 19--W.W. Astor contributes $125,000 for needy families of British
officers; American hospital opened in Nice for wounded French soldiers;
large American Red Cross consignment of supplies sent to Russia.
Dec. 20--German bazaar closes, with receipts of $300,000.
Dec. 23--King of the Belgians sends message of thanks to America.
Dec. 28--It is planned that every State shall send a food ship to
Belgium.
Dec. 29--Total amount given by the United States for Belgium through the
Belgium Relief Committee is $1,490,000.
Dec. 31--Steamer Massapequa, sent by Rockefeller Foundation, sails on
her second voyage with supplies for Belgians; Rockefeller Foundation has
thus far spent more than $1,000,000 on relief; sailing of the fifth
Belgian relief ship to leave Philadelphia.
Jan. 1--Rockefeller Foundation buys 6,000,000 bushels of wheat in the
Chicago market for Belgians.
Jan. 3--Shipload of food to be sent from United States to the Albanians.
Jan. 5--Minister Brand Whitlock sends message that Germany will give
Americans free hands in sending supplies to Belgium; British and German
Governments require that ships for Belgium shall carry no other cargo
than supplies; food ship sent by State of Kansas sails; British War
Office sends thanks for American assistance.
Jan. 7--French Government thanks Americans for work done by Lafayette
Fund; Ohio, Nebraska, Maryland, and Virginia will send food ships this
week.