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give their blood to help Dr. Carrel in saving the wounded. Oct. 29--Count de Chambrun shells his own home. Oct. 30--Chateau of Princess Hohenlohe seized. Nov. 1--Envoy asks for passports from Turkey; French affairs turned over to American Embassy. Nov. 4--Officers discard swords and conspicuous uniforms; they will direct charges from rear to foil German sharpshooters. Nov. 7--City of Roulers in ruins. Nov. 8--Premier Viviani decorates Mayor of Rheims and says city will be rebuilt. Nov. 9--Military attaches of neutral countries allowed to visit theatre of war. Nov. 10--Rheims still being bombarded. Nov. 18--Germans declare they saw observation post on towers of Rheims Cathedral; bombardment resumed; Appenrodt's restaurant looted in Paris. Nov. 19--Germans are working coal mines and mills in occupied French territory; President Poincare strikes names of Germans from roll of Legion of Honor. Nov. 21--New field gun outranges German guns. Nov. 26--German surgeons and deaconesses sentenced to prison for looting. Nov. 28--Regimental dispatch dog mentioned in orders as having fallen in duty; Germans charge use of dumdum bullets by the French. Dec. 1--Gen. Joffre tells Alsatians that the French have come back permanently. Dec. 4--Youths 18 years old are called for military examination; Mohammedan soldiers from Tunis are being sent to serve in Europe; Germans charge brutalities to Germans in Morocco. Dec. 11--The Cabinet meets in Paris, marking the moving of the capital from Bordeaux; youths of class of 1915 go into training. Dec. 13--Full text of France's "Yellow Book" published in THE NEW YORK TIMES; postal notice announces that letters to twenty-one communes in Alsace need only ordinary stamps. Dec. 14--Man who mutilated German sentry is shot. Dec. 17--Priests hold mass in the trenches; French heroism lauded at meeting of French Academy; but a small percentage of the wounded are dying. Dec. 18--French court held in Alsace. Dec. 19--Lille is near starvation. Dec. 22--Premier Viviani makes address at opening of Parliament in Paris, declaring that the war will end only with restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, restoration of Belgium, and assurance of lasting peace. Dec. 25--Portion of Alsace celebrates Christmas under French rule. Jan. 7--French Cabinet makes public report of Government Commission which has been investigating German methods of waging war; report charges Germans
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