an warships have violated her
neutrality; there is a scarcity of copper; order for locomotives to be
dismantled to get materials for making ammunition.

Nov. 25--Fortifications north of Kiel Canal are being strengthened for
fear of invasion; Bavarians are reported by the French to be deserting.

Nov. 29--Indemnity of $37,500 paid to Luxemburg.

Nov. 30--Alsatians are deserting from the army.

Dec. 3--Burgomaster Max of Brussels complains of treatment received from
Germans.

Dec. 4--Troops are suffering from typhoid; household utensils of copper
are commandeered because of scarcity of the metal; British prisoner of
war sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for attack on custodians.

Dec. 6--Second ban of Landsturm told to be ready for service on Dec.
20.

Dec. 8--Turkish officers are serving with the army in Poland.

Dec. 10--Government has informed the Pope of willingness for Christmas
truce if other combatants will observe it.

Dec. 11--Many inhabitants of Autry, France, are exiled to Saxony;
preparations are being made for an extended occupation of French
territory; French Minister of War obtains affidavits from prisoners in
concentration camps that Gen. von Stenger ordered killing of wounded.

Dec. 12--Some women refugees at Kiao-Chau want to go to America.

Dec. 14--Socialists disapprove of the anti-war stand taken by Dr.
Liebknecht, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, who alone of that body
opposed the new war credit.

Dec. 15--Bavarian soldiers to be court-martialed for mutiny at Antwerp.

Dec. 18--Rumors that Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz will be the new
Belgian King.

Dec. 19--Relations between the Prussian Government and the Poles have
improved.

Dec. 21--George Weill, member of the Reichstag from Metz, is fighting in
the French Army; Chile protests against alleged violations of her
neutrality by the navy.

Dec. 22--Supplies in Ghent commandeered for Christmas celebration.

Dec. 24--Germany denies French charges that neutral ships have been
hired to lay mines in the Mediterranean.

Dec. 27--Commander of the Yorcke gets two-year term for losing vessel;
German spy seized while trying to enter Gibraltar disguised as a Moor.

Dec. 30--British prisoner sentenced to death for assaulting a German
officer.

Dec. 31--Kaiser sends New Year's greetings to President Wilson and the
United States; German press has received with exultation the news of
American note on British interference with Americ