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.