March 11—There is a panic in Constantinople and many foreigners are leaving.
March 15—All Serbs and Montenegrins have been ordered to leave Constantinople within twenty-four hours.
March 18—The rich are leaving Constantinople; Germans from the provinces are concentrating there.
March 19—Appalling conditions prevail in Armenia, following massacres by Turks and Kurds.
UNITED STATES.
March 1—Indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York against the Hamburg-American Steamship Company and against officials of the line on the charge of conspiring against the United States by making out false clearance papers and false manifests in connection with voyages made by four steamships to supply German cruiser Karlsruhe and auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with coal and provisions; indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York against Richard P. Stegler, a German, Gustave Cook and Richard Madden on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in obtaining a passport.
March 2—Three indictments charging the illegal transportation of dynamite in interstate commerce are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in Boston against Warner Horn, a German, who tried to destroy the international railway bridge at Vanceboro, Me., last month; extradition proceedings by Canada, officials state, will probably have to be halted until this indictment is disposed of.
March 7—Horn is made a Federal prisoner in Maine.
March 8—Carl Ruroede, who was arrested in January with four Germans to whom he had issued spurious American passports, pleads guilty in the Federal District Court to charge of conspiring to defraud the United States Government, and is sentenced to three years' imprisonment; the four Germans who bought passports are fined $200 each; the Department of Justice is still investigating in belief there are other conspirators.
March 16—Stegler turns State's evidence and testifies against Cook and Madden in the Federal District Court.