Various - The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915

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Aug. 21--United States sends formal declaration of policy bearing on
ultimatum.

Sept. 5--Baron Kato makes speech in Diet outlining events leading up to
war with Germany and break with Austria, and thanking United States for
good offices.

Sept. 10--Government tells Russia that no peace will be concluded until
Allies consent.

Sept. 15--Papers controlled by Germans ordered suppressed.

Sept. 26--Charges of misconduct on part of troops in China denied at
Washington Embassy.

Oct. 5--Assurance given to China that Shantung Railroad will only be
used temporarily.

Oct. 7--Ambassador Guthrie and embassy at Washington assure State
Department that taking of Jaluit Island is only a temporary move.

Oct. 15--England tells China that she cannot interfere with the
occupation of railroad.

*RUSSIA.*

July 21--Belief that Government will aid Servia in possible conflict
with Austria.

July 24--Cabinet meets; Government will ask Austria to extend time
allowed for Servia's answer to ultimatum.

July 25--Army is mobilizing.

July 26--Warning to Germany against invasion of Servia; army manoeuvres
countermanded, but Government still hopes for peace.

July 27--Czar warns Germany of general mobilization of army.

July 28--Force masses on eastern border; lights along Black Sea coast
ordered extinguished.

July 29--Intervention imminent; prayers for Serb victory; Baltic lights
out; Czar summons reservists.

July 30--Germany demands halting of mobilization within twenty-four
hours and sends Grand Duke of Hesse to urge peace; war activity in
Warsaw; railroads taken over.

July 31--Railway bridge on Vienna-Warsaw line blown up; no reply sent to
German note; mobilization order.

Aug. 3--Czar issues statement outlining events leading up to war.

Aug. 8--Czar addresses Duma and Council of Empire; Duma pledges people
to country's defense.

Aug. 9--Minister Sazonof, in speech before Duma, blames Austria for war.

Aug. 10--Government acknowledges receipt of President Wilson's offer of
good offices.

Aug. 14--Army works in secret, 5,500,000 men mobilized; Poles support
Russia.

Aug. 15--Home rule promised to Poland after war if people remain loyal.

Aug. 16--Poles enthusiastic over promise of autonomy.

Aug. 17--Unrestricted use of Dardanelles demanded of Turkey.

Aug. 18--Many Poles join army.

Aug. 24--Finns loyal.

Aug. 27--Poles loyal; St. Petersburg well supplied with food.

Sept. 1--Name of St. Petersburg changed to Petrograd; other cities with
German names would have them Russianized; Germany charges atrocities in
East Prussia.

Sept. 3--Report that soldiers have been sent to Belgium through
Scotland.

Sept. 4--Gen. Bobrinsky appointed Governor of Galicia.

Sept. 6--Year's provisions seized at Lemberg, which is to be called
Lvov.

Sept. 12--Prisoners are proving a problem.

Sept. 14--British Press Bureau denies that troops have landed in Belgium
or France.

Sept. 16--Proclamation issued to captured Austrian districts.

Sept. 21--"Orange Book" shows Government's negotiations in cause of
peace.

Sept. 27--Full text of "Orange Book" printed in THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Sept. 28--Soldiers occupy Tilsit estate of German Emperor; war fund
presented to Czar by Petrograd bankers.

Oct. 8--Lemberg made a province.

Oct. 15--Refugees are a serious problem in Warsaw.

*SERVIA.*

July 25--Parliament will meet in special session; King Peter moves
capital from Belgrade to Kraguyavatz.

July 26--Army mobilizing; Crown Prince will command it; panic in
Belgrade as people flee.

July 28--King Peter goes to Nish.

Aug. 4--Sending of press dispatches forbidden.

Aug. 8--Full text given out of Austria's ultimatum and of reply.

Sept. 19--Government will conclude peace with Austria only by acting
with Triple Entente.

*RESERVISTS.*

July 26--Ambassador Dumba tells Consuls to warn Austrian reservists to
prepare to return for service; Serbs in New York ready to sail.

July 27--Austrians await call.

July 28--Chicago Serbs anxious to return home.

July 29--Reservists ordered to return to Austria; Servians in Indiana
ordered to await call.

July 30--Servians in New York prepare to sail; Giuseppe Garibaldi will
fight for Servia if Italy remains neutral.

Aug. 1--Mass meeting of Slavs in Central Opera House, New York City; Dr.
Winter issues proclamation for general mobilization of Austrians in New
York district.

Aug. 2--Swiss called to colors; Germany and France recall all military
reserves; England sends for naval reserves.

Aug. 4--Many flock to consulates; Servians fight to sail on Greek ship;
French and British reservists leave Canada; Austro-Hungarian Military
Benevolent Society formed in New York; hotels affected by leaving of
French chefs.

Aug. 5--Canadians respond to call; 2,000 Frenchmen sail on La Lorraine.

Aug. 6--Attempt to ship Austrians, Hungarians and Germans given up;
English and French to go; many leave destitute families.

Aug. 7--Reservists will go as individuals, not as organized parties, by
order of Department of Commerce.

Aug. 15--Many Frenchmen sail on the Rochambeau; Dutch and Germans on the
Potsdam; Secretary Bryan says men in America cannot be forced to join
foreign armies.

Aug. 22--British ordered to be ready for call to colors.

Aug. 25--German and Austrian reservists on the Potsdam taken prisoners
at Falmouth, England.

Aug. 31--British vessels take Austrian and German reservists from two
Pacific Mail liners near Hongkong.

Sept. 5--German reservists from Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam
held prisoners by France; French reservists sail on the Espagne; Germans
from Puerto Colombia reach New York.

Sept. 9--British cruiser captures the Noordam and makes German
reservists prisoners.

Sept. 25--Germans taken from Holland-America liner Absteldyk by British.

*RELIEF WORK.*

Aug. 1--Hungarians form committee to aid New York families.

Aug. 2--Austrian headquarters established in New York City.

Aug. 6--Prince of Wales starts fund.

Aug. 7--American women of title in England start fund; American
Ambulance Corps organized in Paris by Mrs. Herrick.

Aug. 8--Committee of American women formed in London to aid sufferers;
gift from Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and many other contributions; Belgians in
New York form relief committee; French fund started in New York.

Aug. 10--French-Belgian relief fund started in New York.

Aug. 11--Ambassador Herrick asks Red Cross to send hospital supplies to
Paris.

Aug. 12--Duchess of Sutherland is at head of French Red Cross work in
Brussels.

Aug. 13--Rothschilds give $200,000 to French fund.

Aug. 14--Prince of Wales fund reaches $5,000,000.

Aug. 15--English nurses arrive in Brussels; Germans in New York start
fund.

Aug. 17--Servian societies aid Servian Red Cross.

Aug. 21--Relief fund started in New York by German Historical Society,
which gives iron ring as souvenir to contributors.

Aug. 24--Ex-Empress Eugenie contributes to French fund.

Aug. 27--Noblemen in England offer homes to Red Cross.

Aug. 31--Appeal for aid in equipment of American Hospital in Paris.

Sept. 1--British War Office accepts Oldway House equipped as hospital by
American women; large contributions in London.

Sept. 7--American ambulance corps first on field near Paris.

Sept. 8--Mrs. W.E. Corey places chateau in France at the disposal of the
Red Cross.

Sept. 12--Hanotaux issues appeal for French refugees; Duchess of
Marlborough to aid servants out of work; Duchess of Westminster a nurse.

Sept. 13--Briand thanks American women for care of wounded in Paris;
Ambassador Jusserand will forward money for French Red Cross.

Sept. 14--Chinese send Red Cross men to aid Japanese and Germans at
Kiao-Chau; American Red Cross steamship Red Cross sails from New York.

Sept. 15--Work of rich American women praised by French Socialist organ;
Mrs. Penfield organizes corps of Red Cross workers in Vienna; Prince of
Wales fund increased by soccer teams.

Sept. 17--Babies and Mothers' League formed in London.

Sept. 19--Committee of Mercy formed in New York City.

Sept. 20--Belgian Legation in Washington plans aid for women and
children.

Sept. 23--Lady Paget appeals to American women for socks.

Sept. 25--American Women's Fund in London gives six motor ambulances;
home of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Depew on the Oise used for hospital.

Sept. 28--Appeal for Belgian relief addressed to Canada repeated to
United States.

Sept. 29--England generous in offering homes to Belgian refugees.

Sept. 30--Duchess of Marlborough to act for Committee of Mercy in Great
Britain.

Oct. 5--Prince of Wales fund reaches $15,000,000.

Oct. 8--Mrs. J.P. Morgan on shipboard knits socks for soldiers; praise
is given to the work done by the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris
under Dr. J.A. Blake.

*PEACE AND MEDIATION.*

Sept. 7--Germany reported ready for peace; Oscar Straus and diplomats
confer with Secretary Bryan.

Sept. 8--Secretary Bryan and Ambassador Spring-Rice deny peace
proposals.

Sept. 10--Bankers' peace movement afoot; German banks feel strain; Pope
issues appeal.

Sept. 11--Apostolic Delegate in Washington has mission on mediation to
President Wilson; opinion in England that peace moves must wait.

Sept. 12--Kaiser has received informal inquiry from United States
Government; Allies will unite in demanding compensation for Belgium.

Sept. 17--Report of preliminary steps for peace between Austria and
Russia; Ambassador Gerard reports conversation with German Chancellor,
suggesting that Allies state terms.

Sept. 18--England denies that Germany and Austria have made peace
proposals; Gerard's message will probably be sent to Allies, but United
States will make no further move at present; President Wilson receives
appeal from women of all nations and from General Conference of Friends.

Sept. 19--Ambassador Gerard's message has not been forwarded to any
embassy; National Peace Council in England thanks President Wilson for
mediation offer.

Sept. 21--President Wilson believes time has not come to move for peace;
he receives appeal from suffragists.

Sept. 23--Ambassador von Bernstorff denies that German Government
initiated peace propositions.

Sept. 26--Churches start peace campaigns to further efforts made by
President Wilson.

Oct. 4--Prayers for peace held in churches throughout United States in
accordance with request in proclamation by President Wilson.

*THE MEN OF THE EMDEN.*

By THOMAS R. YBARRA.

What matter if you
Be stanch and true
To the British blood in the veins of you,
When it's "hip hurrah!" for a deed well done,
For a fight well fought and a race well run--
What matter if you be true?
Hats off to the Emden's crew!

Theirs was the life of the storm-god's folk,
Uncounted miles from the Fatherland,
With a foe beneath every wisp of smoke,
And a menace in every strip of strand.
Up, glasses! Paul Jones was but one of these,
Hull, Bainbridge, Decatur, their brothers, too!
(Ha! those pirate nights
In a ring of foes,
When you douse your lights
And drive home your blows!)
Hats off to the Emden's crew!

Erect on the wave-washed decks stood they
And heard with a Viking's grim delight
The whirr of the wings of death by day
And the voice of death in their dreams by night!
Under the sweep of the wings of death,
By the blazing gun, in the tempest's breath,
While a world of enemies strove and fumed,
Remote, unaided, undaunted, doomed,
They stood--is there any, friend or foe,
Who will choke a cheer?--who can still but scoff?
No, no, by the gods of valor, no!
To the Emden's crew--
Hats off!

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: The second installment of this chronology, recording events
to and including Jan. 7, 1915, will appear in the next issue. The
chronology will then be continued in each succeeding issue.]

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