Part 42 (1/2)

Dec. 10--Czech regiments refuse to fight against Servia.

Dec. 16--Anti-war riots in some cities.

Dec. 17--Emperor orders displacement of Field Marshal Potiorek because of defeat in Servian campaign.

Dec. 22--Many soldiers killed in troop train accident.

Dec. 23--Discontent is being manifested in Hungary; independence movement gains headway.

Dec. 30--Anti-war riots throughout the country; Servian campaign is abandoned.

Dec. 31--Emperor issues a New Year's rescript to the army and navy, praising bravery of soldiers and sailors.

Jan. 2--Conditions in Trieste are distressing.

BELGIUM.

Oct. 16--People delay returning to Antwerp, where Germans are levying on city for supplies; refugees flock to Dover.

Oct. 18--Full text of Belgium's ”Gray Paper” published in THE NEW YORK TIMES; movement to secure supplies in England; famine acute.

Oct. 19--Fifty thousand refugees return from Holland; there are nearly 1,000,000 refugees in Great Britain, France, and Holland.

Oct. 21--British Official Press Bureau praises Belgian Army; Cardinal Mercier returns to Belgium from Holland and urges all Catholic refugees to follow him; water supply restored and tramways running in Antwerp; Brussels now governed as a German city.

Oct. 22--Government denies anti-German plot with England before the war and calls on German press to print alleged records of such plot seized at Brussels.

Oct. 24--German public is stirred by stories of brutalities by Belgian civilians toward wounded Germans.

Oct. 26--Millions are facing starvation.

Oct. 28--One-fourth of the Belgian Army is disabled.

Oct. 29--Many Belgian wounded in Calais.

Oct. 31--Maeterlinck says that buildings in Brussels have been mined.

Nov. 12--Sightseers visit Louvain; city is being restored.

Nov. 16--Fuel supply problem is becoming serious.

Nov. 18--Faculty of University of Louvain invited to University of Notre Dame.

Nov. 21--German Information Service says that Belgians interned in Holland are bitter against the British for lack of sufficient aid at Antwerp.

Nov. 22--Mayor of Ypres shot by Allies as a spy.

Nov. 23--Maeterlinck appeals to the United States and Italy to save Flemish art treasures.