GERMANY.
Feb. 1—Official order has been issued that all stocks of copper and other metals used for war purposes are to be reserved for the army.
Feb. 4—German refugees from Kiao-Chau reach New York.
Feb. 5—It is reported that a sham railroad station has been built outside of Cologne to deceive French aviators; the Second Secretary of the British Legation is arrested in Brussels.
Feb. 6—An Alsatian is condemned to death for fighting in French Army.
Feb. 7—French prisoner condemned to two years' imprisonment for defacing portrait of the Kaiser.
Feb. 8—Government orders neutrals expelled from Alsace; Archbishop of Cologne writes pastoral letter predicting victory.
Feb. 9—Cardinal von Hartman says that the motto of the day is "Trust in God and hold out"; there is a scene in Prussian Diet, when two Socialists protest against the war.
Feb. 10—Socialists indorse the war at a meeting in Mainz.
Feb. 11—Berlin communes suggest that all members of the Emden's crew be authorized to add the word Emden to their names.
Feb. 12—Government warns against offering insults to Americans.
Feb. 14—Many French civilians are freed; the Kaiser is said to be fifth in popularity among contemporary German heroes, von Hindenburg being first and the Crown Prince second.
Feb. 15—Substitute for petrol is stated to have been found.
Feb. 16—Spaniards are expelled from Baden; Iron Crosses given to Emden's men; German nurses and surgeons are acquitted by the French of charges of pillage at Peronne.
Feb. 19—Passport rules are made stricter; all men of last reserve are stated to have been called out.
Feb. 20—New submarines, airships, and two more dreadnoughts are under construction.
Feb. 21—Afternoon entertainments are suppressed in Berlin.
Feb. 22—Boys from seventeen to twenty are, it is reported, to be called out for Landsturm; charges of cruelty to British prisoners of war are denied.
Feb. 24—Frankfurter Zeitung estimates that prisoners of war now held in Germany and Austria are 1,035,000, 75 per cent. being held by the Germans.
Feb. 27—Admiral von Pohl, Chief of the Admiralty Staff, has been selected as successor to Admiral von Ingenohl, who has been removed from command of the battle fleet; manufacturing and agriculture enterprises in the occupied parts of France and Belgium are being kept alive under the management of Germans to contribute to support of the armies; high school teachers and pupils are in the army.
Feb. 28—It is reported that Ambassador von Bernstorff is to be recalled to Berlin and that Baron Treutler, a friend of the Kaiser, will be his successor; the total Prussian losses are now 1,102,212, in killed, wounded, and prisoners.