Part 66

Nov. 4--Officers discard swords and conspicuous uniforms; they will direct charges from rear to foil German sharpshooters.

Nov. 7--City of Roulers in ruins.

Nov. 8--Premier Viviani decorates Mayor of Rheims and says city will be rebuilt.

Nov. 9--Military attaches of neutral countries allowed to visit theatre of war.

Nov. 10--Rheims still being bombarded.

Nov. 18--Germans declare they saw observation post on towers of Rheims Cathedral; bombardment resumed; Appenrodt's restaurant looted in Paris.

Nov. 19--Germans are working coal mines and mills in occupied French territory; President Poincare strikes names of Germans from roll of Legion of Honor.

Nov. 21--New field gun outranges German guns.

Nov. 26--German surgeons and deaconesses sentenced to prison for looting.

Nov. 28--Regimental dispatch dog mentioned in orders as having fallen in duty; Germans charge use of dumdum bullets by the French.

Dec. 1--Gen. Joffre tells Alsatians that the French have come back permanently.

Dec. 4--Youths 18 years old are called for military examination; Mohammedan soldiers from Tunis are being sent to serve in Europe; Germans charge brutalities to Germans in Morocco.

Dec. 11--The Cabinet meets in Paris, marking the moving of the capital from Bordeaux; youths of class of 1915 go into training.

Dec. 13--Full text of France's "Yellow Book" published in THE NEW YORK TIMES; postal notice announces that letters to twenty-one communes in Alsace need only ordinary stamps.

Dec. 14--Man who mutilated German sentry is shot.

Dec. 17--Priests hold mass in the trenches; French heroism lauded at meeting of French Academy; but a small percentage of the wounded are dying.

Dec. 18--French court held in Alsace.

Dec. 19--Lille is near starvation.

Dec. 22--Premier Viviani makes address at opening of Parliament in Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and assurance of lasting peace.

Dec. 25--Portion of Alsace celebrates Christmas under French rule.

Jan. 7--French Cabinet makes public report of Government Commission which has been investigating German methods of waging war; report charges Germans with habitual "pillage, outrage, burning, and murder."

GERMANY.

Oct. 16--Count Zeppelin is supervising construction of new airships; reinforcements sent to von Kluck; tax levied on Bruges.

Oct. 20--Report that Zeppelin fleet is being prepared for attack on London; Britons over 55 years old to be allowed to leave country.

Oct. 22--Chancellor Delbrueck announces in Prussian Diet that nation will not lay down arms until victory is won; pioneer company of Lorraine battalion granted right to wear skull and crossbones on caps.

Oct. 23--Women spies meet death bravely.

Oct. 24--Looting barred in Antwerp; survey of conditions shows many men eager to enlist.

Oct. 26--Prince of Monaco protests against manner in which Gen. von Buelow proposes to treat his property in France; Government complains of seizure by England of Red Cross ship Ophelia.