April 4—Budapest continues gay despite the war, and night life goes on much as usual.
April 11—The Foreign Office publishes a second "Red Book," charging atrocities and breaches of international law against Serbia, Russia, France, and England; it is declared that there is not an article of international law which has not been violated repeatedly by the troops of the Allies.
April 12—A law court at Vienna, in the case of Dubois, a Belgian, holds that despite the German occupation Dubois has not lost his Belgian citizenship.
April 14—Wealthy Hungarians are preparing to flee before the Russian invasion.
April 15—Some of the Hungarian newspapers are discussing peace.
April 17—War Office announces that men between 18 and 50 of the untrained Landsturm will hereafter be liable for military service.
April 18—Bread riots occur in Vienna and at points in Bohemia; Vienna is now protected by long lines of trenches on the left bank of the Danube; $14,000,000 is said to have been spent in fortifications at Budapest and Vienna.
April 19—The food situation in Trieste is critical.
April 21—All Austrian subjects in Switzerland are recalled by their Government.
April 22—Riots in Trieste are assuming a revolutionary character; "Long Live Italy!" is being shouted by the mobs; it is reported from Paris that the Hungarian Chamber at its opening session refused to vote the new military credits demanded by the General Staff.