19. Announcement that a "Distinguished Service Medal" had been instituted for non commissioned officers and privates in the Royal Marines, and for petty officers, men and boys in the Royal Navy.
—At Marquise, near Boulogne, a train with Belgian refugees was partly telescoped by a following goods train; thirty-one killed, eighty-one wounded.
—Attempted rising in Portugal. (See For. Hist., Chap. IV.)
20. Announcement that the Tsar had decided to prohibit for ever the Government sale of alcohol in Russia.
—In Montreal, a block of nine houses, with three shops, was blown up, probably by Austrians; four killed, including three of the perpetrators. The occupants were chiefly Russians.
21. Trafalgar Day. The tributes at the Nelson column included mementoes of the Aboukir and Hawke. Crowds of people visited the square.
—Extensive arrests of Germans and Austrians in London and many English towns.
22. Announcement that German and Austrian merchant ships must leave the Suez Canal.
23. Announcement that Dr. Arthur Berriedale Keith, D.Litt. Edin., D.C.L. Oxon, had been appointed Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in Edinburgh University, vice Dr. Julius Eggeling, resigned.
24. H.M.S. Badger rammed (and was believed to have sunk) a German submarine off the Dutch coast.