nch aviators attack
Freiburg.
Dec. 7--Major Gen. von Meyer killed by an arrow dropped by an aviator;
Ostend set on fire by aeroplane bombs; ten killed at Hazebrouck by bomb
dropped by German aviator.
Dec. 8--German airmen drop appeals to Indian troops to desert British.
Dec. 9--Aviator of Allies destroys Scheldt pontoon bridge at Antwerp;
Belgian aviator destroys three German motor trucks and scatters cavalry
detachment.
Dec. 12--German airman who dropped bombs on Hazebrouck killed by French
shells.
Dec. 16--British and French aviators are making raids almost daily into
German territory.
Dec. 18--French aviators drop bombs in Lorraine.
Dec. 19--Two German aviators stranded on a Danish island and interned in
Denmark.
Dec. 20--German aeroplane drops bomb on Calais.
Dec. 21--Aviators of Allies drop bombs in Brussels and make night attack
near Ostend.
Dec. 22--Deschamps, Belgian aviator, killed by his own bomb.
Dec. 24--German aeroplane, trying to reach Paris, is shot down; German
aviator drops bomb in Dover.
Dec. 25--Two German aviators fly up the Thames, but are routed by
British.
Dec. 26--Zeppelin drops bombs on Nancy; German aeroplanes make raid in
Russian Poland; French aviators attack Metz.
Dec. 30--German airmen drop bombs in Dunkirk, killing fifteen; French
aviators active in Flanders.
Jan. 1--German aeroplanes bombard Dunkirk.
Jan. 3--Austrian aviator drops bombs on Kielce.
Jan. 4--French aviators drop bombs near Brussels.
AMERICAN INTERESTS.
Oct. 30--Slight damage to American property in bombardment of Odessa.
Oct. 31--American Refugee Society formed in the United States.
Nov. 10--Henry Field, grandson of the late Marshall Field, is serving as
a British Army chauffeur.
Nov. 13--British authorities demand that Americans show passports on
embarking for home.
Nov. 19--American Consulate in Berlin takes charge of the work of
finding American baggage in Germany.
Nov. 25--Rush for new passports by Americans in London.
Nov. 28--American Ambassador to Turkey says American missionaries are
not being molested.
Dec. 28--American Government sends memorandum to British Government
through Ambassador Page vigorously protesting against interference with
American commerce by British warships; American Relief Committee in
London still busy, and renews lease of its offices.
Dec. 31--Full text of American note on British interference with
American trade is given out i
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