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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