Dec. 8—Turkish officers are serving with the army in Poland.
Dec. 10—Government has informed the Pope of willingness for Christmas truce if other combatants will observe it.
Dec. 11—Many inhabitants of Autry, France, are exiled to Saxony; preparations are being made for an extended occupation of French territory; French Minister of War obtains affidavits from prisoners in concentration camps that Gen. von Stenger ordered killing of wounded.
Dec. 12—Some women refugees at Kiao-Chau want to go to America.
Dec. 14—Socialists disapprove of the anti-war stand taken by Dr. Liebknecht, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, who alone of that body opposed the new war credit.
Dec. 15—Bavarian soldiers to be court-martialed for mutiny at Antwerp.
Dec. 18—Rumors that Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz will be the new Belgian King.
Dec. 19—Relations between the Prussian Government and the Poles have improved.
Dec. 21—George Weill, member of the Reichstag from Metz, is fighting in the French Army; Chile protests against alleged violations of her neutrality by the navy.
Dec. 22—Supplies in Ghent commandeered for Christmas celebration.