FRANCE.
July 24—Government will side with Russia in event of hostilities with Austria.
July 25—Paris mobs want war; President Poincaré and Premier Viviani absent from France.
July 26—Emergency council of Cabinet held; people see hand of Germany.
July 27—Government agrees to Sir Edward Grey's proposal for conference to avert conflict; general impression that Germany inspired Austria's act; President Poincaré hurries home; anti-war demonstrations in Paris; Ambassador tries to enlist Germany's aid for mediation.
July 28—Army moves to frontier; Socialists protest against war.
July 29—Demonstration as Poincaré returns from Russia; Cabinet council; business at standstill in Paris.
July 30—Troops guard railroad.
July 31—Answer to Germany's note about Russia; Government joins with England in trying to adjust matters between Russia and Austria; steamship La France taken over in service of Government.
Aug. 1—President Poincaré orders mobilization after Germany asks intention of Government concerning her ultimatum to Russia; Cabinet council; Delcassé becomes. War Minister; American Ambassador and Consul will look after German affairs; Government promises to respect Belgian neutrality unless another power violates it; German Ambassador is leaving.
Aug. 2—Ambassador Cambon blames Germany for conflict; state of siege declared in France and Algiers; Socialists patriotic; railway communication with Germany and Belgium cut off.
Aug. 3—Berlin reports acts of hostility by French; Ambassador leaves Berlin and German Ambassador leaves Paris; riots in Paris.
Aug. 4—Paris newspapers reduced in size; General Staff prepared for German moves; Prince Roland Bonaparte offers services; Gen. Joseph Joffre leaves for frontier; statement by Premier Viviani in Chamber of Deputies; war measures passed; many Americans want to fight for France.
Aug. 5—War bills voted in Parliament; United States represents Austria at Paris and France at Vienna; President Poincaré's address to nation; Gen. Pau will command one arm.
Aug. 6—Ambassador embraced by the Czar; Premier Viviani asks women to gather crops; army under command of Gen. Joffre.
Aug. 8—President Poincaré replies to King Albert's message of thanks; Paris City Council changes name of Rue de Berlin to Rue de Liége.
Aug. 9—Academy salutes Belgians; martial law proclaimed.
Aug. 10—J.G. Demombynes, student, tells how Germans killed French refugees on frontier; diplomatic relations with Austria broken off; Government acknowledges receipt of President Wilson's offer of good offices.
Aug. 13—Dr. Alexis Carrel goes to front as surgeon.
Aug. 17—Garibaldi offers to raise army; Prince Antoine of Orleans wants to fight for France.
Aug. 18—American volunteer corps raised in Paris; severe military law enforced; Carthusian monks, who were expelled, return to fight.
Aug. 19—Third reserve army raised; Gen. Joffre in supreme command.
Aug. 20—Government will protest to powers against German atrocities which it charges.
Aug. 21—Prefects ordered to take note of atrocities; foreign volunteers mobilize in Paris; service of Anglo-American Rough Riders accepted.
Aug. 22—Government charges Germans with using dumdum bullets; Paris food prices low.
Aug. 23—Government protests to The Hague against use of dumdum bullets by Germans; army bulletin praises Belgians; success of Gen. Pau thrills people.
Aug. 26—Refugees from frontier flock to Paris; American volunteers go to Rouen to enter training.
Aug. 27—Government presents affidavits to neutral countries that German officer shot at Red Cross nurses.
Aug. 30—1914 reserves to be called out; Paris stores food; Vice Admiral de Lapeyrere will command allied forces in Mediterranean.
Sept. 2—Germans accused of setting fire to wood that sheltered St. Quentin refugees.
Sept. 3—Gen. Gallieni issues proclamation to people of Paris; many leave city; Government in Bordeaux; Havre guarded.
Sept. 4—Exodus from Paris continues; sanitary precautions taken.
Sept. 5—Schools of Paris closed; Cabinet takes steps to send food to country districts.
Sept. 6—Gen. Joffre warns troops against premature attacks in mass; siege awaited calmly; 1915 recruits called out; neutral diplomats want Ambassador Herrick to ask United States to protest against possible destruction of Paris art treasures; Germans levy war taxes on captured cities.
Sept. 8—Suggestion to have art works regarded as international property taken into consideration by President Wilson.
Sept. 9—Decree ordering all men exempt from service because of ill-health to be reexamined; many regret flight from Paris.
Sept. 10—Gens. Exelmans and Toutee wounded; military authorities warn Parisians against overconfidence; intrenchments dug.
Sept. 11—President Poincaré sends message to President Wilson in answer to Kaiser's charges on dumdum bullets; Government commandeers all automobiles; Gen. Joffre and army congratulated by President Poincaré.
Sept. 12—Road from Havre to Paris reopened, rail service being resumed; fresh troops ready in Paris.
Sept. 14—Much booty has been taken from Germans; Senlis laid waste.
Sept. 16—Troops accused of destroying German field hospital and killing doctors.
Sept. 18—Stricter watch on spies; minors allowed to enlist, with permission of mothers.
Sept. 19—Suffering in Lunéville; statement issued by Washington Embassy to show that Germany began the war.
Sept. 20—Northern France is being laid waste; Menier château raided.
Sept. 21—Foreign Office sends protest to neutrals against bombardment of Rheims Cathedral; Ambassador Jusserand lays complaint before United States State Department.
Sept. 22—Loss in officers very heavy; their uniforms may be changed; refugees return to Paris.
Sept. 23—Germans say they were compelled to bombard Rheims.
Sept. 24—Germans admit aiming one shell at Rheims Cathedral to drive out observers; refugees advertise in newspapers for relatives.
Sept. 25—Germans again shell Rheims Cathedral; formal complaint of German atrocities filed at United States State Department; statement by Ambassador Jusserand.
Sept. 26—Stricter news censorship in Paris; Belgian refugees aid in gathering grapes at Bordeaux.
Sept. 28—Joffre denies Rheims Cathedral was being used for observatory; two German spies shot.
Sept. 30—Association of Architects expels German members.
Oct. 2—French soldiers are charged by German Foreign Office with torturing wounded at Orchies.
Oct. 4—German charges officially denied.
Oct. 6—German prisoners sentenced to die for looting.
Oct. 7—French are charged by Germans with themselves pillaging French towns, an alleged order of Gen. Joffre being quoted.
Oct. 11—Problem of caring for refugees becomes serious.
Oct. 15—Learned societies plan expulsion of German members.