ENGLAND.
Oct. 16.—Labor Party declares sympathy with Government; London hotels discharge German and Austrian help.
Oct. 17—Winston Churchill defends sending of marines to Antwerp; he says relief plans miscarried.
Oct. 18—Anti-German riots in London.
Oct. 19—Irish Nationalists, at meeting in London, take pledge to avenge Belgium; many arrests for the looting of German shops.
Oct. 20—Germans and Austrians expelled from Brighton.
Oct. 21—All unnaturalized German and Austrian residents between ages of 17 and 45 are to be taken to detention camps.
Oct. 22—Westminster Abbey heavily insured against aeroplane hazard.
Oct. 24—More anti-German riots in London; paintings removed from National Gallery to places of safety: Kitchener orders sobriety among soldiers; Germany protests to neutrals against seizure of Germans on neutral merchant ships.
Oct. 25—John Redmond urges Irish to enlist.
Oct. 27—Government complains that many Germans are getting consular certificates from American officials by posing as Englishmen.
Nov. 1—British affairs in Turkey turned over to American Embassy.
Nov. 2—Admiralty orders North Sea closed to commerce; Turkish Ambassador handed his passports.
Nov. 3—Government will not molest American ships carrying cotton to German ports.
Nov. 4—Americans will fight as First London Machine Battery.
Nov. 5—Proclamation that holy places in Arabia and Mesopotamia must not be touched.
Nov. 6—Detectives say some London buildings are strong German forts; large trade in mourning clothes in London; Sweden protests against closing of North Sea.
Nov. 7—Government thanks United States State Department for help rendered at Constantinople by Ambassador Morgenthau.
Nov. 8—Japanese Emperor and Empress send thanks for British aid at Tsing-tau.
Nov. 10—Karl Hans Lody shot as a spy in the Tower of London; when first arrested he claimed to be an American.
Nov. 11—Germans are exhibiting dumdum bullets which they charge have been taken from British soldiers.
Nov. 12—Mass meeting in London in support of Kitchener's appeal for temperance by soldiers.
Nov. 13—Officers sent to Russia to discuss tactics of eastern campaign; sentry in concentration camp kills a German prisoner.
Nov. 14—Under Secretary of War Tennant urges football players to enlist.
Nov. 17—War Office denies that British have used dumdum bullets, but accuses Germans of using them; less crime in the country.
Nov. 20—House of Commons votes additional army of 1,000,000 men.
Nov. 21—Balfour says there must be no patched-up truce; Somali chiefs in Jubaland want to join the army; 19,000 members of the Automobile Association have given their cars for army use.
Nov. 22—Five German rioters killed in detention camp on Isle of Man.
Nov. 23—Newspapers show disgust over failure of attempts to get football players and spectators to enlist; recruiting is slow in Manchester; War Office is advertising for officers.
Nov. 25—Coast towns prepare to resist invasion; Indian soldier receives Victoria Cross; shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man has angered Germany; reprisals feared.
Nov. 27—Coroner's jury finds that shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man was justified; London newspapers agree to curtail football news as aid to recruiting.
Nov. 28—Two German spies found in new army just landed in France; famous athletes on casualty lists.
Dec. 1—German-born members of Parliament remain away from war sessions.
Dec. 2—Dublin newspaper suppressed for opposing enlistment and expressing pro-German sentiment.
Dec. 5—Many football players are enlisting.
Dec. 9—Preparations are being made to meet possible German landing.
Dec. 11—Gibraltar is being provisioned.
Dec. 12—German officer found hidden in packing case at Gravesend.
Dec. 14—Government is searching for German wireless station on Norfolk coast which is blocking messages.
Dec. 16—Movement to form women's volunteer reserve.
Dec. 17—Many Germans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.
Dec. 19—Many soldiers are insane or have nervous prostration as a result of battle horrors.
Dec. 21—Some German prisoners of war are being placed on prison ships.
Dec. 23—Germany's offer to exchange one British prisoner of war for five German prisoners is declined.
Dec. 26—Government has constructed a bridge of boats across the Thames.
Dec. 30—Archbishop of Canterbury appeals for recruits.
Dec. 31—An undercurrent of irritation is evident over the American note on interference with American commerce; a new decoration, the Military Cross, has been instituted for the army.
Jan. 3—Day of intercession and prayer throughout the Empire; second expeditionary force sails for England from Australia; a third force is being recruited.
Jan. 4—Many men leave their positions in civil life to join the army as a result of the raid on the coast towns.
Jan. 6—Many clergymen are enlisting.