New York Times Current History The European War, February, 1915 Part 43

Nov. 20--German newspapers barred from Canada.

Nov. 24--American Consuls directed to a.s.sist 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.

Oct. 22--Westminster Abbey heavily insured against aeroplane hazard.

Oct. 24--More anti-German riots in London; paintings removed from National Gallery to places of safety: Kitchener orders sobriety among soldiers; Germany protests to neutrals against seizure of Germans on neutral merchant ships.

Oct. 25--John Redmond urges Irish to enlist.

Oct. 27--Government complains that many Germans are getting consular certificates from American officials by posing as Englishmen.

Nov. 1--British affairs in Turkey turned over to American Emba.s.sy.

Nov. 2--Admiralty orders North Sea closed to commerce; Turkish Amba.s.sador handed his pa.s.sports.

Nov. 3--Government will not molest American ships carrying cotton to German ports.

Nov. 4--Americans will fight as First London Machine Battery.

Nov. 5--Proclamation that holy places in Arabia and Mesopotamia must not be touched.

Nov. 6--Detectives say some London buildings are strong German forts; large trade in mourning clothes in London; Sweden protests against closing of North Sea.

Nov. 7--Government thanks United States State Department for help rendered at Constantinople by Amba.s.sador Morgenthau.

Nov. 8--j.a.panese Emperor and Empress send thanks for British aid at Tsing-tau.

Nov. 10--Karl Hans Lody shot as a spy in the Tower of London; when first arrested he claimed to be an American.

Nov. 11--Germans are exhibiting dumdum bullets which they charge have been taken from British soldiers.

Nov. 12--Ma.s.s meeting in London in support of Kitchener's appeal for temperance by soldiers.

Nov. 13--Officers sent to Russia to discuss tactics of eastern campaign; sentry in concentration camp kills a German prisoner.

Nov. 14--Under Secretary of War Tennant urges football players to enlist.

Nov. 17--War Office denies that British have used dumdum bullets, but accuses Germans of using them; less crime in the country.

Nov. 20--House of Commons votes additional army of 1,000,000 men.

Nov. 21--Balfour says there must be no patched-up truce; Somali chiefs in Jubaland want to join the army; 19,000 members of the Automobile a.s.sociation have given their cars for army use.

Nov. 22--Five German rioters killed in detention camp on Isle of Man.

Nov. 23--Newspapers show disgust over failure of attempts to get football players and spectators to enlist; recruiting is slow in Manchester; War Office is advertising for officers.

Nov. 25--Coast towns prepare to resist invasion; Indian soldier receives Victoria Cross; shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man has angered Germany; reprisals feared.

Nov. 27--Coroner's jury finds that shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man was justified; London newspapers agree to curtail football news as aid to recruiting.

Nov. 28--Two German spies found in new army just landed in France; famous athletes on casualty lists.

Dec. 1--German-born members of Parliament remain away from war sessions.

Dec. 2--Dublin newspaper suppressed for opposing enlistment and expressing pro-German sentiment.

Dec. 5--Many football players are enlisting.