FRANCE.
Oct. 16—Learned societies plan expulsion of German members.
Oct. 17—Germans arrested in Paris; coal supply low in Paris; sugar prices are rising.
Oct. 18—President Poincaré's country house destroyed.
Oct. 20—Military authorities deny German charge that towers of Rheims Cathedral are used as observation post.
Oct. 21—Baron de Coubertin will train young men who would normally enter the army in 1916; Germany protests against alleged cruelties.
Oct. 22—It is reported that 500,000 new soldiers are ready to fight.
Oct. 24—Lille and Rheims have been much damaged by German shells; exchange of civilians with Germany begins.
Oct. 26—German property in France not confiscated, but taken into trusteeship.
Oct. 28—Many volunteer to give their blood to help Dr. Carrel in saving the wounded.
Oct. 29—Count de Chambrun shells his own home.
Oct. 30—Château of Princess Hohenlohe seized.
Nov. 1—Envoy asks for passports from Turkey; French affairs turned over to American Embassy.
Nov. 4—Officers discard swords and conspicuous uniforms; they will direct charges from rear to foil German sharpshooters.
Nov. 7—City of Roulers in ruins.
Nov. 8—Premier Viviani decorates Mayor of Rheims and says city will be rebuilt.
Nov. 9—Military attachés of neutral countries allowed to visit theatre of war.
Nov. 10—Rheims still being bombarded.
Nov. 18—Germans declare they saw observation post on towers of Rheims Cathedral; bombardment resumed; Appenrodt's restaurant looted in Paris.
Nov. 19—Germans are working coal mines and mills in occupied French territory; President Poincaré strikes names of Germans from roll of Legion of Honor.
Nov. 21—New field gun outranges German guns.
Nov. 26—German surgeons and deaconesses sentenced to prison for looting.
Nov. 28—Regimental dispatch dog mentioned in orders as having fallen in duty; Germans charge use of dumdum bullets by the French.
Dec. 1—Gen. Joffre tells Alsatians that the French have come back permanently.
Dec. 4—Youths 18 years old are called for military examination; Mohammedan soldiers from Tunis are being sent to serve in Europe; Germans charge brutalities to Germans in Morocco.
Dec. 11—The Cabinet meets in Paris, marking the moving of the capital from Bordeaux; youths of class of 1915 go into training.
Dec. 13—Full text of France's "Yellow Book" published in The New York Times; postal notice announces that letters to twenty-one communes in Alsace need only ordinary stamps.
Dec. 14—Man who mutilated German sentry is shot.
Dec. 17—Priests hold mass in the trenches; French heroism lauded at meeting of French Academy; but a small percentage of the wounded are dying.
Dec. 18—French court held in Alsace.
Dec. 19—Lille is near starvation.
Dec. 22—Premier Viviani makes address at opening of Parliament in Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and assurance of lasting peace.
Dec. 25—Portion of Alsace celebrates Christmas under French rule.
Jan. 7—French Cabinet makes public report of Government Commission which has been investigating German methods of waging war; report charges Germans with habitual "pillage, outrage, burning, and murder."