Part 91

*RESERVISTS.*

July 26--Ambassador Dumba tells Consuls to warn Austrian reservists to prepare to return for service; Serbs in New York ready to sail.

July 27--Austrians await call.

July 28--Chicago Serbs anxious to return home.

July 29--Reservists ordered to return to Austria; Servians in Indiana ordered to await call.

July 30--Servians in New York prepare to sail; Giuseppe Garibaldi will fight for Servia if Italy remains neutral.

Aug. 1--Mass meeting of Slavs in Central Opera House, New York City; Dr. Winter issues proclamation for general mobilization of Austrians in New York district.

Aug. 2--Swiss called to colors; Germany and France recall all military reserves; England sends for naval reserves.

Aug. 4--Many flock to consulates; Servians fight to sail on Greek ship; French and British reservists leave Canada; Austro-Hungarian Military Benevolent Society formed in New York; hotels affected by leaving of French chefs.

Aug. 5--Canadians respond to call; 2,000 Frenchmen sail on La Lorraine.

Aug. 6--Attempt to ship Austrians, Hungarians and Germans given up; English and French to go; many leave destitute families.

Aug. 7--Reservists will go as individuals, not as organized parties, by order of Department of Commerce.

Aug. 15--Many Frenchmen sail on the Rochambeau; Dutch and Germans on the Potsdam; Secretary Bryan says men in America cannot be forced to join foreign armies.

Aug. 22--British ordered to be ready for call to colors.

Aug. 25--German and Austrian reservists on the Potsdam taken prisoners at Falmouth, England.

Aug. 31--British vessels take Austrian and German reservists from two Pacific Mail liners near Hongkong.

Sept. 5--German reservists from Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam held prisoners by France; French reservists sail on the Espagne; Germans from Puerto Colombia reach New York.

Sept. 9--British cruiser captures the Noordam and makes German reservists prisoners.

Sept. 25--Germans taken from Holland-America liner Absteldyk by British.

*RELIEF WORK.*

Aug. 1--Hungarians form committee to aid New York families.

Aug. 2--Austrian headquarters established in New York City.

Aug. 6--Prince of Wales starts fund.

Aug. 7--American women of title in England start fund; American Ambulance Corps organized in Paris by Mrs. Herrick.

Aug. 8--Committee of American women formed in London to aid sufferers; gift from Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and many other contributions; Belgians in New York form relief committee; French fund started in New York.

Aug. 10--French-Belgian relief fund started in New York.

Aug. 11--Ambassador Herrick asks Red Cross to send hospital supplies to Paris.

Aug. 12--Duchess of Sutherland is at head of French Red Cross work in Brussels.