Part 65

Dec. 9--Preparations are being made to meet possible German landing.

Dec. 11--Gibraltar is being provisioned.

Dec. 12--German officer found hidden in packing case at Gravesend.

Dec. 14--Government is searching for German wireless station on Norfolk coast which is blocking messages.

Dec. 16--Movement to form women's volunteer reserve.

Dec. 17--Many Germans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.

Dec. 19--Many soldiers are insane or have nervous prostration as a result of battle horrors.

Dec. 21--Some German prisoners of war are being placed on prison ships.

Dec. 23--Germany's offer to exchange one British prisoner of war for five German prisoners is declined.

Dec. 26--Government has constructed a bridge of boats across the Thames.

Dec. 30--Archbishop of Canterbury appeals for recruits.

Dec. 31--An undercurrent of irritation is evident over the American note on interference with American commerce; a new decoration, the Military Cross, has been instituted for the army.

Jan. 3--Day of intercession and prayer throughout the Empire; second expeditionary force sails for England from Australia; a third force is being recruited.

Jan. 4--Many men leave their positions in civil life to join the army as a result of the raid on the coast towns.

Jan. 6--Many clergymen are enlisting.

FRANCE.

Oct. 16--Learned societies plan expulsion of German members.

Oct. 17--Germans arrested in Paris; coal supply low in Paris; sugar prices are rising.

Oct. 18--President Poincare's country house destroyed.

Oct. 20--Military authorities deny German charge that towers of Rheims Cathedral are used as observation post.

Oct. 21--Baron de Coubertin will train young men who would normally enter the army in 1916; Germany protests against alleged cruelties.

Oct. 22--It is reported that 500,000 new soldiers are ready to fight.

Oct. 24--Lille and Rheims have been much damaged by German shells; exchange of civilians with Germany begins.

Oct. 26--German property in France not confiscated, but taken into trusteeship.

Oct. 28--Many volunteer to give their blood to help Dr. Carrel in saving the wounded.

Oct. 29--Count de Chambrun shells his own home.

Oct. 30--Chateau of Princess Hohenlohe seized.

Nov. 1--Envoy asks for passports from Turkey; French affairs turned over to American Embassy.