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The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 · Various — chapter 61 of 74 · ~336 words · public domain

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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Oct. 17--Men formerly found physically unfit to be now re-examined.

Oct. 20--Wounded fill Budapest and South Austrian towns.

Oct. 21--Troops rushed from Italian frontier to strengthen German line in Belgium; Gen. Bruderman, defender of Lemberg, disgraced.

Oct. 27--Acute distress in Southern Hungary; there are reports of sedition in the army.

Oct. 30--France is arranging for repatriation of Austrian citizens.

Nov. 3--It is reported that Austria is seeking a separate peace.

Nov. 10--Lists of losses show that many Hungarian nobles have been killed in battle.

Nov. 12--Army mutineers are shot.

Nov. 22--Cholera in Przemysl.

Dec. 2--Hungarian Chamber of Deputies votes war bills.

Dec. 3--Opposition members of Hungarian Parliament are bitter against the Germans.

Dec. 6--Defenses of Vienna are being strengthened.

Dec. 8--No music after midnight allowed in Vienna; 60,000 wounded are in hospital there.

Dec. 10--Czech regiments refuse to fight against Servia.

Dec. 16--Anti-war riots in some cities.

Dec. 17--Emperor orders displacement of Field Marshal Potiorek because of defeat in Servian campaign.

Dec. 22--Many soldiers killed in troop train accident.

Dec. 23--Discontent is being manifested in Hungary; independence movement gains headway.

Dec. 30--Anti-war riots throughout the country; Servian campaign is abandoned.

Dec. 31--Emperor issues a New Year's rescript to the army and navy, praising bravery of soldiers and sailors.

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.

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