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The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 · Various — chapter 63 of 74 · ~307 words · public domain

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Nov. 4--King and Queen visit troops on Salisbury Plain.

Nov. 6--Indians contribute to war fund and offer to send warriors.

Nov. 7--Soldiers go sightseeing in London.

Nov. 8--Major Gen. Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defense, returns from England; he says troops are well, but will not go to front for some time; they are to have additional training.

Nov. 11--Mines laid near Victoria.

Nov. 14--Premier Borden says hosts of men are volunteering.

Nov. 18--Men in Canadian regiments who are said to be of German blood are rejected by British authorities.

Nov. 20--German newspapers barred from Canada.

Nov. 24--American Consuls directed to assist German and Austrian subjects in Canada.

Nov. 27--Canadian doctors arrive in France to establish hospital.

Nov. 28--Precautions are taken against possible raids across Niagara River by Germans.

Dec. 26--German reservists reported to be gathering in California to raid Vancouver; report not taken seriously by Canadian authorities.

Dec. 31--Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Regiment reaches the front.

EGYPT.

Nov. 2--Martial law proclaimed.

Nov. 14--Moslems pay no attention to Turkish war moves.

Nov. 21--Turks and Germans seek to sow sedition.

Nov. 29--Princes Abbas and Osman banished by British authorities on charge of engaging in anti-British conspiracy.

Dec. 1--Premier Rushdi Pasha declares for Britain; he tells of benefits conferred on his country by British.

Dec. 17--England declares protectorate; Turkish suzerainty at an end.

Dec. 18--France recognizes British protectorate.

ENGLAND.

Oct. 16.--Labor Party declares sympathy with Government; London hotels discharge German and Austrian help.

Oct. 17--Winston Churchill defends sending of marines to Antwerp; he says relief plans miscarried.

Oct. 18--Anti-German riots in London.

Oct. 19--Irish Nationalists, at meeting in London, take pledge to avenge Belgium; many arrests for the looting of German shops.

Oct. 20--Germans and Austrians expelled from Brighton.

Oct. 21--All unnaturalized German and Austrian residents between ages of 17 and 45 are to be taken to detention camps.

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