is halted by the Russian Government pending negotiations.

Jan. 15--Large consignment of supplies is sent to Saloniki by American
Red Cross; Virginia and Maryland send Belgian relief ships; Georgia is
raising funds for a ship.

Jan. 21--American Red Cross issues report of its European activities
from Aug. 1 to Jan. 9; war fund thus far amounts to $1,188,000;
forty-five American Red Cross surgeons and 150 nurses are on war duty
in Europe; Sing Sing prisoners are to knit socks for Polish destitute.

Jan. 23--Mme. Grouitch, wife of the Secretary General for Foreign
Affairs of Servia, arrives in New York seeking funds for seeds for the
Servian Spring planting; Dr. Wickliffe Rose and Ernest Bicknell, who
have been in Russian Poland for the American Red Cross, report from
Berlin that conditions in Poland are worse, if anything, than those in
Belgium.

Jan. 24--Commission for Relief in Belgium has thirty-five chartered
steamships running between American ports and Rotterdam carrying
supplies.

Jan. 26--American Red Cross ships large consignment of supplies for
Constantinople and Servia.

Jan. 27--Commission for Relief in Belgium states that 76,000 tons of
food, in addition to supplies in sight, are needed for next three
months; there are now 1,400,000 destitute, and the number is
increasing daily.

Jan. 28--Committee of prominent American educators plans to have the
20,000,000 children of the United States help war sufferers through a
new fund, to be called the Children of America's Fund.

Jan. 31--Rockefeller Foundation denies that it has withdrawn from
Belgium relief work.

TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT

By WILLIAM WATSON.

[From King Albert's Book.]

Receive, from one who hath not lavished praise
On many Princes, nor was ever awed
By empire such as groveling slaves applaud,
Who cast their souls into its altar-blaze--
Receive the homage that a freeman pays
To Kinghood flowering out of Manhood broad,
Kinghood that toils uncovetous of laud,
Loves whom it rules, and serves the realm it sways.

For when Your people, caught in agony's net,
Rose as one dauntless heart, their King was found
Worthy on such a throne to have been set,
Worthy by such as They to have been crowned;
And loftier praise than this did never yet
On mortal ears from lips of mortals sound.

INDEX

Vol. I. From the Beginning to March, 1915

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