Part 67

Oct. 27--Germans in Southern Hungary ask for aid.

Oct. 29--German tourists flock to Antwerp.

Oct. 30--Forty thousand teachers are at the front; 1914 reserves called out.

Nov. 1--Freedom of the City of Blankenburg conferred upon Capt. von Mueller of the cruiser Emden.

Nov. 3--Consuls of neutral nations allowed to inspect prison camps; Government will not interfere with cargoes of ships carrying cotton to Russian ports.

Nov. 4--There is a shortage of army officers; the Kaiser decrees promotions on short service.

Nov. 7--Conspicuous insignia removed from officers; British civilians sent to detention camp.

Nov. 8--Nation regrets loss of Tsing-tau, but bravery of garrison is praised; border patrols prevent Belgian civilians from crossing into Holland.

Nov. 10--Admiral von Spee and many men of his squadron receive Iron Crosses.

Nov. 11--Fortifications of Antwerp are being repaired.

Nov. 15--Three defensive lines prepared between North Sea and the Rhine, to be used in event of retreat.

Nov. 16--Names of occupied French and Belgian cities are Germanized.

Nov. 17--All aliens expelled from Frankfort.

Nov. 18--Port of Hamburg deserted, but shipyards are busy.

Nov. 21--Blast furnaces used as crematory at Charleroi; Government has granted permission for six officers of the American Army to follow forces as military observers; Ambassador Bernstorff files with United States State Department complaint that French have violated Red Cross Convention of 1906.

Nov. 23--Gen. von Eberhardt removed after defeat in the Vosges.

Nov. 24--Chile charges that German warships have violated her neutrality; there is a scarcity of copper; order for locomotives to be dismantled to get materials for making ammunition.

Nov. 25--Fortifications north of Kiel Canal are being strengthened for fear of invasion; Bavarians are reported by the French to be deserting.

Nov. 29--Indemnity of $37,500 paid to Luxemburg.

Nov. 30--Alsatians are deserting from the army.

Dec. 3--Burgomaster Max of Brussels complains of treatment received from Germans.

Dec. 4--Troops are suffering from typhoid; household utensils of copper are commandeered because of scarcity of the metal; British prisoner of war sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for attack on custodians.

Dec. 6--Second ban of Landsturm told to be ready for service on Dec. 20.

Dec. 8--Turkish officers are serving with the army in Poland.

Dec. 10--Government has informed the Pope of willingness for Christmas truce if other combatants will observe it.

Dec. 11--Many inhabitants of Autry, France, are exiled to Saxony; preparations are being made for an extended occupation of French territory; French Minister of War obtains affidavits from prisoners in concentration camps that Gen. von Stenger ordered killing of wounded.

Dec. 12--Some women refugees at Kiao-Chau want to go to America.

Dec. 14--Socialists disapprove of the anti-war stand taken by Dr. Liebknecht, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, who alone of that body opposed the new war credit.