Jan. 2—Conditions in Trieste are distressing.
BELGIUM.
Oct. 16—People delay returning to Antwerp, where Germans are levying on city for supplies; refugees flock to Dover.
Oct. 18—Full text of Belgium's "Gray Paper" published in The New York Times; movement to secure supplies in England; famine acute.
Oct. 19—Fifty thousand refugees return from Holland; there are nearly 1,000,000 refugees in Great Britain, France, and Holland.
Oct. 21—British Official Press Bureau praises Belgian Army; Cardinal Mercier returns to Belgium from Holland and urges all Catholic refugees to follow him; water supply restored and tramways running in Antwerp; Brussels now governed as a German city.
Oct. 22—Government denies anti-German plot with England before the war and calls on German press to print alleged records of such plot seized at Brussels.
Oct. 24—German public is stirred by stories of brutalities by Belgian civilians toward wounded Germans.
Oct. 26—Millions are facing starvation.
Oct. 28—One-fourth of the Belgian Army is disabled.