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matter. Nov. 4--King and Queen visit troops on Salisbury Plain. Nov. 6--Indians contribute to war fund and offer to send warriors. Nov. 7--Soldiers go sightseeing in London. Nov. 8--Major Gen. Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defense, returns from England; he says troops are well, but will not go to front for some time; they are to have additional training. Nov. 11--Mines laid near Victoria. Nov. 14--Premier Borden says hosts of men are volunteering. Nov. 18--Men in Canadian regiments who are said to be of German blood are rejected by British authorities. Nov. 20--German newspapers barred from Canada. Nov. 24--American Consuls directed to assist German and Austrian subjects in Canada. Nov. 27--Canadian doctors arrive in France to establish hospital. Nov. 28--Precautions are taken against possible raids across Niagara River by Germans. Dec. 26--German reservists reported to be gathering in California to raid Vancouver; report not taken seriously by Canadian authorities. Dec. 31--Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Regiment reaches the front. EGYPT. Nov. 2--Martial law proclaimed. Nov. 14--Moslems pay no attention to Turkish war moves. Nov. 21--Turks and Germans seek to sow sedition. Nov. 29--Princes Abbas and Osman banished by British authorities on charge of engaging in anti-British conspiracy. Dec. 1--Premier Rushdi Pasha declares for Britain; he tells of benefits conferred on his country by British. Dec. 17--England declares protectorate; Turkish suzerainty at an end. Dec. 18--France recognizes British protectorate. ENGLAND. Oct. 16.--Labor Party declares sympathy with Government; London hotels discharge German and Austrian help. Oct. 17--Winston Churchill defends sending of marines to Antwerp; he says relief plans miscarried. Oct. 18--Anti-German riots in London. Oct. 19--Irish Nationalists, at meeting in London, take pledge to avenge Belgium; many arrests for the looting of German shops. Oct. 20--Germans and Austrians expelled from Brighton. Oct. 21--All unnaturalized German and Austrian residents between ages of 17 and 45 are to be taken to detention camps. Oct. 22--Westminster Abbey heavily insured against aeroplane hazard. Oct. 24--More anti-German riots in London; paintings removed from National Gallery to places of safety: Kitchener orders sobriety among soldiers; Germany protests to neutrals against seizure of Germans on neutral merchant s
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