Aug. 21—Country prepared against invasion; soldiers fire on Zeppelin using searchlight; declaration of neutrality renewed; bakers making bread from potatoes; people of Tongres flee from Germans.
Aug. 23—Minister of Industry and Commerce assures England that goods will not be improperly supplied to Germany.
Aug. 25—Mobilization ceased.
Aug. 29—Southern frontier under martial law.
Sept. 9—Germans want people's sympathy; some places put in state of siege; rice substituted for wheat flour.
Sept. 15—Artists protest to German Emperor against destruction of Louvain.
Sept. 26—Martial law on eastern frontier to stop smuggling of goods into Germany.
Oct. 2—Neutrality is being maintained at great cost; trade is paralyzed.
Oct. 3—Severe embargo on foodstuffs.
Oct. 7—Amsterdam fixes price of wheat.