ENGLAND.
Feb. 3—It is planned to devote the present session of Parliament entirely to war measures.
Feb. 5—Official estimates place the number of effective men in the army, exclusive of those serving in India, at 3,000,000.
Feb. 8—Premier Asquith tells Parliament that British losses to Feb. 4 are about 104,000 in killed, wounded, and missing.
Feb. 9—Admiral Lord Charles Beresford suggests public hanging of captured German sea and air raiders.
Feb. 10—At a cost of $100,000 the Government has converted Donington Hall, Leicestershire, one of the most beautiful old places in England, into a rest home for captured German officers.
Feb. 11—Government plans to publish biweekly communications from Field Marshal French.
Feb. 12—First exchanges of disabled prisoners between England and Germany are arranged through the Papal Nuncio at Berlin.
Feb. 13—Pamphlet issued to the public gives instructions as to how to act in case of German invasion.
Feb. 15—First troops of new armies are pouring into France; enemy subjects denied admittance at ports.
Feb. 17—Board of Trade plans to compensate all merchant seamen who may be injured during hostilities.
Feb. 18—Victoria Cross is conferred on twelve men, one of whom, Corporal Leary of the Irish Guards, killed eight Germans in hand-to-hand combat and took two Germans prisoners.
Feb. 23—Captain who was formerly in command of the super-dreadnought Audacious, generally stated to have been sunk by a mine on Oct. 27, is made a Rear Admiral; promotion revives rumors that the Audacious was saved and is being repaired; British merchant shipping loss thus far is $26,750,000, including both ships and cargoes, the Liverpool and London War risks Association citing figures as showing the efficacy of British Navy's protection.
Feb. 25—Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, announces in the House of Commons that Great Britain is in "entire accord with Russia's desire for access to the sea."
Feb. 27—Six newspaper correspondents, including one American, are to be permitted to go to the front under auspices of the War Office, according to present plans.