RESERVISTS.
July 26—Ambassador Dumba tells Consuls to warn Austrian reservists to prepare to return for service; Serbs in New York ready to sail.
July 27—Austrians await call.
July 28—Chicago Serbs anxious to return home.
July 29—Reservists ordered to return to Austria; Servians in Indiana ordered to await call.
July 30—Servians in New York prepare to sail; Giuseppe Garibaldi will fight for Servia if Italy remains neutral.
Aug. 1—Mass meeting of Slavs in Central Opera House, New York City; Dr. Winter issues proclamation for general mobilization of Austrians in New York district.
Aug. 2—Swiss called to colors; Germany and France recall all military reserves; England sends for naval reserves.
Aug. 4—Many flock to consulates; Servians fight to sail on Greek ship; French and British reservists leave Canada; Austro-Hungarian Military Benevolent Society formed in New York; hotels affected by leaving of French chefs.
Aug. 5—Canadians respond to call; 2,000 Frenchmen sail on La Lorraine.
Aug. 6—Attempt to ship Austrians, Hungarians and Germans given up; English and French to go; many leave destitute families.
Aug. 7—Reservists will go as individuals, not as organized parties, by order of Department of Commerce.
Aug. 15—Many Frenchmen sail on the Rochambeau; Dutch and Germans on the Potsdam; Secretary Bryan says men in America cannot be forced to join foreign armies.
Aug. 22—British ordered to be ready for call to colors.
Aug. 25—German and Austrian reservists on the Potsdam taken prisoners at Falmouth, England.
Aug. 31—British vessels take Austrian and German reservists from two Pacific Mail liners near Hongkong.
Sept. 5—German reservists from Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam held prisoners by France; French reservists sail on the Espagne; Germans from Puerto Colombia reach New York.
Sept. 9—British cruiser captures the Noordam and makes German reservists prisoners.
Sept. 25—Germans taken from Holland-America liner Absteldyk by British.