St.
Petersburg wrecked; school children sent to garner crops.

Aug. 7--Report that pressure was brought to bear on Italy to secure aid;
Kaiser's proclamation to nation; soldiers march cheerfully to war;
British Embassies stoned in Dresden and Berlin.

Aug. 8--Threat to declare war on Italy; Russian official papers blame
Germany for war; papers says Government is traduced.

Aug. 9--Hermann Wendel, Socialist member of Reichstag, volunteers for
service in the army.

Aug. 10--Men of the Landsturm being mobilized.

Aug. 11--Anti-war riots in Berlin.

Aug. 12--Official hints that Kaiser halted attack on Liege to prevent
further loss of life; attempt on life of Crown Prince at
Aix-la-Chapelle; receipt of President Wilson's offer of good offices
acknowledged.

Aug. 13--Troops in Belgian Luxemburg said to be starving; British,
French, and Belgians charge cruelties by troops.

Aug. 14--Chancellor states Germany's case and calls war a life-and-death
struggle of the German and the Slav; report that Kaiser sent personal
telegrams to Belgian King demanding surrender of Liege forts; aviators
drop pamphlets over Poland urging revolt against Russia.

Aug. 15--Government said to have asked Ambassador Whitlock to repeat to
Belgium offer of increased territory in return for free passage of
troops; belief that acquisition of Russian Poland is sought; many
members of Hohenzollern family in field; French and English signs
removed from shops.

Aug. 16--Prisoners well treated by French; French say officers' corps is
tyrannical and demoralized; Russians accused of cruelty.

Aug. 17--Untrained men called to colors; Paris journal reports prisoners
bitter against Kaiser.

Aug. 18--Chancellor said to have called treaty guaranteeing Belgian
neutrality a "scrap of paper"; E.G. Treat says Kaiser called the Czar an
Asiatic barbarian.

Aug. 19--Speech in Reichstag shows that Socialists are backing
Government.

Aug. 20--Alsatian Deputies escape to France; Kaiser said to be
responsible for attacks on Liege; Government asks United States to
represent her in Far East in event of war with Japan.

Aug. 21--Committee of merchants works to aid trade and addresses
explanation of the war to Americans; French charge German prisoners with
robbing the dead.

Aug. 22--Japanese envoy ordered to leave Berlin; American Ambassador
will look after interests of Japan; dumdum bullets not used by Germans,
it is declared; great mortality of officers attra