ze; General Staff prepared for
German moves; Prince Roland Bonaparte offers services; Gen. Joseph
Joffre leaves for frontier; statement by Premier Viviani in Chamber of
Deputies; war measures passed; many Americans want to fight for France.

Aug. 5--War bills voted in Parliament; United States represents Austria
at Paris and France at Vienna; President Poincare's address to nation;
Gen. Pau will command one arm.

Aug. 6--Ambassador embraced by the Czar; Premier Viviani asks women to
gather crops; army under command of Gen. Joffre.

Aug. 8--President Poincare replies to King Albert's message of thanks;
Paris City Council changes name of Rue de Berlin to Rue de Liege.

Aug. 9--Academy salutes Belgians; martial law proclaimed.

Aug. 10--J.G. Demombynes, student, tells how Germans killed French
refugees on frontier; diplomatic relations with Austria broken off;
Government acknowledges receipt of President Wilson's offer of good
offices.

Aug. 13--Dr. Alexis Carrel goes to front as surgeon.

Aug. 17--Garibaldi offers to raise army; Prince Antoine of Orleans wants
to fight for France.

Aug. 18--American volunteer corps raised in Paris; severe military law
enforced; Carthusian monks, who were expelled, return to fight.

Aug. 19--Third reserve army raised; Gen. Joffre in supreme command.

Aug. 20--Government will protest to powers against German atrocities
which it charges.

Aug. 21--Prefects ordered to take note of atrocities; foreign volunteers
mobilize in Paris; service of Anglo-American Rough Riders accepted.

Aug. 22--Government charges Germans with using dumdum bullets; Paris
food prices low.

Aug. 23--Government protests to The Hague against use of dumdum bullets
by Germans; army bulletin praises Belgians; success of Gen. Pau thrills
people.

Aug. 26--Refugees from frontier flock to Paris; American volunteers go
to Rouen to enter training.

Aug. 27--Government presents affidavits to neutral countries that German
officer shot at Red Cross nurses.

Aug. 30--1914 reserves to be called out; Paris stores food; Vice Admiral
de Lapeyrere will command allied forces in Mediterranean.

Sept. 2--Germans accused of setting fire to wood that sheltered St.
Quentin refugees.

Sept. 3--Gen. Gallieni issues proclamation to people of Paris; many
leave city; Government in Bordeaux; Havre guarded.

Sept. 4--Exodus from Paris continues; sanitary precautions taken.

Sept. 5--Schools of Paris closed; Cabinet takes step