July 29--Demonstration as Poincare returns from Russia; Cabinet council; business at standstill in Paris.
July 30--Troops guard railroad.
July 31--Answer to Germany"s note about Russia; Government joins with England in trying to adjust matters between Russia and Austria; steamship La France taken over in service of Government.
Aug. 1--President Poincare orders mobilization after Germany asks intention of Government concerning her ultimatum to Russia; Cabinet council; Delca.s.se becomes. War Minister; American Amba.s.sador and Consul will look after German affairs; Government promises to respect Belgian neutrality unless another power violates it; German Amba.s.sador is leaving.
Aug. 2--Amba.s.sador Cambon blames Germany for conflict; state of siege declared in France and Algiers; Socialists patriotic; railway communication with Germany and Belgium cut off.
Aug. 3--Berlin reports acts of hostility by French; Amba.s.sador leaves Berlin and German Amba.s.sador leaves Paris; riots in Paris.
Aug. 4--Paris newspapers reduced in size; General Staff prepared for German moves; Prince Roland Bonaparte offers services; Gen. Joseph Joffre leaves for frontier; statement by Premier Viviani in Chamber of Deputies; war measures pa.s.sed; many Americans want to fight for France.
Aug. 5--War bills voted in Parliament; United States represents Austria at Paris and France at Vienna; President Poincare"s address to nation; Gen. Pau will command one arm.
Aug. 6--Amba.s.sador embraced by the Czar; Premier Viviani asks women to gather crops; army under command of Gen. Joffre.
Aug. 8--President Poincare replies to King Albert"s message of thanks; Paris City Council changes name of Rue de Berlin to Rue de Liege.
Aug. 9--Academy salutes Belgians; martial law proclaimed.
Aug. 10--J.G. Demombynes, student, tells how Germans killed French refugees on frontier; diplomatic relations with Austria broken off; Government acknowledges receipt of President Wilson"s offer of good offices.
Aug. 13--Dr. Alexis Carrel goes to front as surgeon.
Aug. 17--Garibaldi offers to raise army; Prince Antoine of Orleans wants to fight for France.
Aug. 18--American volunteer corps raised in Paris; severe military law enforced; Carthusian monks, who were expelled, return to fight.
Aug. 19--Third reserve army raised; Gen. Joffre in supreme command.
Aug. 20--Government will protest to powers against German atrocities which it charges.
Aug. 21--Prefects ordered to take note of atrocities; foreign volunteers mobilize in Paris; service of Anglo-American Rough Riders accepted.
Aug. 22--Government charges Germans with using dumdum bullets; Paris food prices low.
Aug. 23--Government protests to The Hague against use of dumdum bullets by Germans; army bulletin praises Belgians; success of Gen. Pau thrills people.
Aug. 26--Refugees from frontier flock to Paris; American volunteers go to Rouen to enter training.
Aug. 27--Government presents affidavits to neutral countries that German officer shot at Red Cross nurses.
Aug. 30--1914 reserves to be called out; Paris stores food; Vice Admiral de Lapeyrere will command allied forces in Mediterranean.
Sept. 2--Germans accused of setting fire to wood that sheltered St.
Quentin refugees.
Sept. 3--Gen. Gallieni issues proclamation to people of Paris; many leave city; Government in Bordeaux; Havre guarded.
Sept. 4--Exodus from Paris continues; sanitary precautions taken.
Sept. 5--Schools of Paris closed; Cabinet takes steps to send food to country districts.
Sept. 6--Gen. Joffre warns troops against premature attacks in ma.s.s; siege awaited calmly; 1915 recruits called out; neutral diplomats want Amba.s.sador [Transcriber: original "Ambasador"] Herrick to ask United States to protest against possible destruction of Paris art treasures; Germans levy war taxes on captured cities.
Sept. 8--Suggestion to have art works regarded as international property taken into consideration by President Wilson.
Sept. 9--Decree ordering all men exempt from service because of ill-health to be reexamined; many regret flight from Paris.
Sept. 10--Gens. Exelmans and Toutee wounded; military authorities warn Parisians against overconfidence; intrenchments dug.
Sept. 11--President Poincare sends message to President Wilson in answer to Kaiser"s charges on dumdum bullets; Government commandeers all automobiles; Gen. Joffre and army congratulated by President Poincare.
Sept. 12--Road from Havre to Paris reopened, rail service being resumed; fresh troops ready in Paris.
Sept. 14--Much booty has been taken from Germans; Senlis laid waste.
Sept. 16--Troops accused of destroying German field hospital and killing doctors.
Sept. 18--Stricter watch on spies; minors allowed to enlist, with permission of mothers.
Sept. 19--Suffering in Luneville; statement issued by Washington Emba.s.sy to show that Germany began the war.
Sept. 20--Northern France is being laid waste; Menier chateau raided.
Sept. 21--Foreign Office sends protest to neutrals against bombardment of Rheims Cathedral; Amba.s.sador Jusserand lays complaint before United States State Department.
Sept. 22--Loss in officers very heavy; their uniforms may be changed; refugees return to Paris.
Sept. 23--Germans say they were compelled to bombard Rheims.
Sept. 24--Germans admit aiming one sh.e.l.l at Rheims Cathedral to drive out observers; refugees advertise in newspapers for relatives.
Sept. 25--Germans again sh.e.l.l Rheims Cathedral; formal complaint of German atrocities filed at United States State Department; statement by Amba.s.sador Jusserand.
Sept. 26--Stricter news censorship in Paris; Belgian refugees aid in gathering grapes at Bordeaux.
Sept. 28--Joffre denies Rheims Cathedral was being used for observatory; two German spies shot.
Sept. 30--a.s.sociation of Architects expels German members.
Oct. 2--French soldiers are charged by German Foreign Office with torturing wounded at Orchies.
Oct. 4--German charges officially denied.
Oct. 6--German prisoners sentenced to die for looting.