Part 62

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.

Oct. 29--Many Belgian wounded in Calais.

Oct. 31--Maeterlinck says that buildings in Brussels have been mined.

Nov. 12--Sightseers visit Louvain; city is being restored.

Nov. 16--Fuel supply problem is becoming serious.

Nov. 18--Faculty of University of Louvain invited to University of Notre Dame.

Nov. 21--German Information Service says that Belgians interned in Holland are bitter against the British for lack of sufficient aid at Antwerp.

Nov. 22--Mayor of Ypres shot by Allies as a spy.

Nov. 23--Maeterlinck appeals to the United States and Italy to save Flemish art treasures.

Nov. 24--Encounters are frequent between smugglers and Germans at Dutch border.

Nov. 26--Germany publishes photographic reproduction of document which, it charges, proves Anglo-Belgian military agreement.

Nov. 30--Rotterdam reports that Germany has decided to levy a tax of $7,000,000 a month on Belgium, and an additional tax of $75,000,000.

Dec. 13--Brussels and suburbs decide to pay fine to Germans.

Dec. 15--Provincial councils ordered by German Governor General to meet to consider payment of tax; bankers prepare to pay it.

Dec. 20--Representatives of provinces agree to pay tax.

Dec. 23--Report from London that Brussels tax has been waived and that the American Minister protested against its imposition.

Dec. 26--Neutral nations notified by Germany that Consuls will not be recognized further.

Dec. 28--Minister to United States protests against cancellation of consular exequaturs by Germany.

Dec. 29--Belgian authorities point out to United States that Germany's decision to cancel exequaturs raises question of sovereignty in Belgium.

Jan. 3--Ghent taxes bachelors to meet German demands.

CANADA.

Oct. 16--Canadian troops go into camp at Salisbury Plain, England.

Oct. 19--There are a considerable number of men from New York in camp at Salisbury Plain.

Oct. 21--Americans in Montreal supply funds for armored motor cars with American crews.

Oct. 29--Border residents apprehensive of raids by Germans and Austrians living in United States.

Nov. 3--German newspaper in the West ordered to stop printing seditious matter.