hips.
Oct. 25--John Redmond urges Irish to enlist.
Oct. 27--Government complains that many Germans are getting consular
certificates from American officials by posing as Englishmen.
Nov. 1--British affairs in Turkey turned over to American Embassy.
Nov. 2--Admiralty orders North Sea closed to commerce; Turkish
Ambassador handed his passports.
Nov. 3--Government will not molest American ships carrying cotton to
German ports.
Nov. 4--Americans will fight as First London Machine Battery.
Nov. 5--Proclamation that holy places in Arabia and Mesopotamia must not
be touched.
Nov. 6--Detectives say some London buildings are strong German forts;
large trade in mourning clothes in London; Sweden protests against
closing of North Sea.
Nov. 7--Government thanks United States State Department for help
rendered at Constantinople by Ambassador Morgenthau.
Nov. 8--Japanese Emperor and Empress send thanks for British aid at
Tsing-tau.
Nov. 10--Karl Hans Lody shot as a spy in the Tower of London; when first
arrested he claimed to be an American.
Nov. 11--Germans are exhibiting dumdum bullets which they charge have
been taken from British soldiers.
Nov. 12--Mass meeting in London in support of Kitchener's appeal for
temperance by soldiers.
Nov. 13--Officers sent to Russia to discuss tactics of eastern campaign;
sentry in concentration camp kills a German prisoner.
Nov. 14--Under Secretary of War Tennant urges football players to
enlist.
Nov. 17--War Office denies that British have used dumdum bullets, but
accuses Germans of using them; less crime in the country.
Nov. 20--House of Commons votes additional army of 1,000,000 men.
Nov. 21--Balfour says there must be no patched-up truce; Somali chiefs
in Jubaland want to join the army; 19,000 members of the Automobile
Association have given their cars for army use.
Nov. 22--Five German rioters killed in detention camp on Isle of Man.
Nov. 23--Newspapers show disgust over failure of attempts to get
football players and spectators to enlist; recruiting is slow in
Manchester; War Office is advertising for officers.
Nov. 25--Coast towns prepare to resist invasion; Indian soldier receives
Victoria Cross; shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man has angered
Germany; reprisals feared.
Nov. 27--Coroner's jury finds that shooting of prisoners on Isle of Man
was justified; London newspapers agree to curtail football news as aid
to recruiting.
Nov. 28--Tw
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