HOLLAND.
July 30—Government declares neutrality.
July 31—Mobilization of army ordered; Austrian Government steamer detained for time, but released.
Aug. 2—Country may be flooded to prevent invasion; fear that Germany may not respect neutrality; bill in Parliament to stabilize food prices.
Aug. 3—Rumor of invasion, but German Minister promises that neutrality will be respected.
Aug. 5—Reservists in America summoned.
Aug. 6—Neutrality in Anglo-German and Belgo-German wars declared.
Aug. 8—Frontier guarded.
Aug. 9—Uhlans captured and disarmed at Maastricht.
Aug. 10—Queen Wilhelmina suggests formation of committee to aid the needy.
Aug. 11—Martial law in several provinces.
Aug. 13—Troops massed on frontier; some districts flooded.
Aug. 15—Queen orders Court festivities canceled.
Aug. 16—Paralysis of trade in Rotterdam will render thousands destitute.
Aug. 18—Everything ready to flood frontier if Germany strikes.
Aug. 20—Food supply causes anxiety; patrols capture German aeroplane.
Aug. 21—Country prepared against invasion; soldiers fire on Zeppelin using searchlight; declaration of neutrality renewed; bakers making bread from potatoes; people of Tongres flee from Germans.
Aug. 23—Minister of Industry and Commerce assures England that goods will not be improperly supplied to Germany.
Aug. 25—Mobilization ceased.
Aug. 29—Southern frontier under martial law.
Sept. 9—Germans want people's sympathy; some places put in state of siege; rice substituted for wheat flour.
Sept. 15—Artists protest to German Emperor against destruction of Louvain.
Sept. 26—Martial law on eastern frontier to stop smuggling of goods into Germany.
Oct. 2—Neutrality is being maintained at great cost; trade is paralyzed.
Oct. 3—Severe embargo on foodstuffs.
Oct. 7—Amsterdam fixes price of wheat.