May 2--The last of the Landsturm is called to the colors.
May 4--Lübeck, on the Baltic Sea, formerly a port of relatively small
importance, has become a great port, and dozens of ships are there
discharging vast quantities of foodstuffs and other supplies;
twenty-three Socialist members of the Reichstag opposed the voting of
the full war credit last asked by the Government, according to a
report from Berlin.
May 7--The Germans state that they and the Austrians now hold 46,000
square miles of Russian territory, containing a population of more
than 5,000,000.
May 12--Typhus has appeared in some of the German prison camps.
May 14--Lieutenant von Muecke and fifty men of the Emden's crew, who
escaped when that cruiser was sunk in November, have arrived at
Damascus, after six months of adventurous wanderings.
May 18--The London Chronicle, on the basis of statistics which it has
received, estimates the total German losses in the war to be
2,050,000.
May 24--Germany asks Switzerland to take over German diplomatic
affairs in Rome; this action is regarded in Washington as a slap at
the United States.
May 26--Prince von Bülow, recently Ambassador to Italy, arrives in
Berlin; Germany and Italy are still theoretically allies, war not
having been declared between them.
May 28--Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, speaking in the Reichstag,
declares that the Teutonic allies are waging war in "holy anger" and
will fight until they have made it certain that no enemy "will dare
again a trial of arms"; he makes a scathing attack on Italy, and says
that "her violation of good faith" is written in "letters of blood."
May 30--Americans are leaving Germany by the score, declaring the hate
for Americans is so intense as to make life unbearable.
June 2--Officers and men on furlough in Berlin are forbidden to visit
cafés and restaurants.
June 4--Prussian losses alone have reached a total of 1,388,000.
June 5--There are now 900,000 prisoners of war held in Germany, in 247
prison camps.
June 7--An extensive exodus of Americans from Germany is in progress,
many going to Italy; refugees declare the Germans now hate Americans
as bitterly as they do the British.
June 14--Germany discontinues her exceptional treatment of 39 British
officers, put into effect as reprisal for England's exceptional
treatment of German submarine crews, now ended.