CANADA.
July 30—Halifax garrison active.
Aug. 1—Cabinet meets, will send to England offer of men.
Aug. 2—Ten thousand men volunteer; Royal Naval Reserve called out; fishermen will respond.
Aug. 3—Ports of Quebec and Montreal in charge of military authorities; militia called to duty; reserves to sail for England.
Aug. 4—Cabinet meeting; mobilization of expeditionary force begins; message of appreciation from King George; British and French reservists sail.
Aug. 5—Country-wide response to call for service; Government buys two submarines built for Chilean Navy; Montreal port guarded; German Consulate at Vancouver attacked.
Aug. 6—Austrian and German Consulates stoned in Winnipeg; England accepts offer of expeditionary force; Sydney is being fortified.
Aug. 7—German Consuls asked to leave country.
Aug. 9—Canada's offer of 1,000,000 bags of flour accepted by England.
Aug. 10—Cruisers hunt in Atlantic for German ships; ports closed; much grain goes to England.
Aug. 14—National Chapter of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire will equip hospital ship for Admiralty; married men not accepted for service without permission of wives; cruiser Good Hope arrives at Halifax; American mass meeting called in Toronto.
Aug. 15—Japanese of British Columbia want to form regiment.
Aug. 17—Americans of Toronto will raise fund for soldiers' families.
Aug. 18—Emergency session of Parliament opened by Duke of Connaught; war vote to be $50,000,000.
Aug. 19—Parliament endorses England's participation in war; speeches by Premier Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier; women exercise veto power to prevent husbands from going to war.
Aug. 21—Move in Parliament to contribute million bags of flour to Belgium; all war measures passed; Bank of Montreal will contribute $100,000 for patriotic purposes; two cruisers added to naval force at Esquimalt.
Aug. 22—War session of Parliament ended; troops on way to Quebec.
Aug. 23—Princess Patricia presents flag to Light Infantry.
Aug. 25—Second army is being mobilized.
Aug. 26—Applications by letter from American citizens for army service refused.
Aug. 29—All available troops to be maintained under arms; Princess Patricia Light Infantry sails from Montreal.
Aug. 30—Troops delayed at Quebec.
Aug. 31—England accepts food offers from Alberta and Quebec; unsuccessful attempt to wreck troop train near Montreal; volunteers will replace Bermuda garrison.
Sept. 10—Declared that Department of Militia and Defense kept secret the passage of Indian troops through the Dominion.
Sept. 11—Passage of Indian troops denied; officials of White Pass & Yukon Railway warn Germans and Austrians not to try to pass through the Yukon.
Sept. 24—Thirty-two thousand troops sail.
Sept. 28—Laurier wants French-Canadian regiment.
Sept. 30—Cadets from Royal Military College sail for England.
Oct. 5—Col. Hughes. Minister of Militia, says he can raise another large contingent of men; second expeditionary force is to be organized.
Oct. 7—New York Staats-Zeitung barred from the mails.
Oct. 8—First contingent of troops reaches Southampton.