BELGIUM.
Oct. 16—People delay returning to Antwerp, where Germans are levying on city for supplies; refugees flock to Dover.
Oct. 18—Full text of Belgium's "Gray Paper" published in The New York Times; movement to secure supplies in England; famine acute.
Oct. 19—Fifty thousand refugees return from Holland; there are nearly 1,000,000 refugees in Great Britain, France, and Holland.
Oct. 21—British Official Press Bureau praises Belgian Army; Cardinal Mercier returns to Belgium from Holland and urges all Catholic refugees to follow him; water supply restored and tramways running in Antwerp; Brussels now governed as a German city.
Oct. 22—Government denies anti-German plot with England before the war and calls on German press to print alleged records of such plot seized at Brussels.
Oct. 24—German public is stirred by stories of brutalities by Belgian civilians toward wounded Germans.
Oct. 26—Millions are facing starvation.
Oct. 28—One-fourth of the Belgian Army is disabled.
Oct. 29—Many Belgian wounded in Calais.
Oct. 31—Maeterlinck says that buildings in Brussels have been mined.
Nov. 12—Sightseers visit Louvain; city is being restored.
Nov. 16—Fuel supply problem is becoming serious.
Nov. 18—Faculty of University of Louvain invited to University of Notre Dame.
Nov. 21—German Information Service says that Belgians interned in Holland are bitter against the British for lack of sufficient aid at Antwerp.
Nov. 22—Mayor of Ypres shot by Allies as a spy.
Nov. 23—Maeterlinck appeals to the United States and Italy to save Flemish art treasures.
Nov. 24—Encounters are frequent between smugglers and Germans at Dutch border.
Nov. 26—Germany publishes photographic reproduction of document which, it charges, proves Anglo-Belgian military agreement.
Nov. 30—Rotterdam reports that Germany has decided to levy a tax of $7,000,000 a month on Belgium, and an additional tax of $75,000,000.
Dec. 13—Brussels and suburbs decide to pay fine to Germans.
Dec. 15—Provincial councils ordered by German Governor General to meet to consider payment of tax; bankers prepare to pay it.
Dec. 20—Representatives of provinces agree to pay tax.
Dec. 23—Report from London that Brussels tax has been waived and that the American Minister protested against its imposition.
Dec. 26—Neutral nations notified by Germany that Consuls will not be recognized further.
Dec. 28—Minister to United States protests against cancellation of consular exequaturs by Germany.
Dec. 29—Belgian authorities point out to United States that Germany's decision to cancel exequaturs raises question of sovereignty in Belgium.
Jan. 3—Ghent taxes bachelors to meet German demands.