Feb. 24—­Belgian women in Brussels are ordered by Germans to stop wearing hats made after style of Belgian soldiers’ caps.

Feb. 27—­Committee appointed by Germans to investigate condition of Belgian art treasures reports that the actual destruction has been insignificant, while objects which have been damaged can be repaired.

BULGARIA.

Feb. 2—­Forces have been sent to organize the naval defense of Dedeagatch.

Feb. 3—­Premier Radoslavoff says that the Government is neutral, but that the Macedonian question causes apprehension.

Feb. 10—­Government plans to remain neutral despite German loan.

CANADA.

Feb. 3—­Unusual measures taken to guard the Duke of Connaught, Governor General, at the opening of Parliament.

Feb. 8—­The first working day of Parliament; party leaders declare there will be a political truce during the war; Government to have ample funds; Colonial Secretary sends dispatch reviewing military operations from British viewpoint and stating that no Canadian troops are yet on the firing line except the Princess Patricia Light Infantry.

Feb. 10—­Sixty-five Canadians have died in the encampment at Salisbury Plain, England.

Feb. 14—­Excitement in Ottawa over report of intended German air raid from American soil.

Feb. 15—­Parliament buildings, Royal Mint, and Rideau Hall, the Governor General’s residence, are darkened in fear of German air raid.

Feb. 16—­Government asks United States to guard American end of international bridges; the whole of the first contingent is now in France.

Feb. 19—­Guards at international bridges are doubled.

ENGLAND.

Feb. 3—­It is planned to devote the present session of Parliament entirely to war measures.

Feb. 5—­Official estimates place the number of effective men in the army, exclusive of those serving in India, at 3,000,000.

Feb. 8—­Premier Asquith tells Parliament that British losses to Feb. 4 are about 104,000 in killed, wounded, and missing.

Feb. 9—­Admiral Lord Charles Beresford suggests public hanging of captured German sea and air raiders.

Feb. 10—­At a cost of $100,000 the Government has converted Donington Hall, Leicestershire, one of the most beautiful old places in England, into a rest home for captured German officers.

Feb. 11—­Government plans to publish biweekly communications from Field Marshal French.

Feb. 12—­First exchanges of disabled prisoners between England and Germany are arranged through the Papal Nuncio at Berlin.

Feb. 13—­Pamphlet issued to the public gives instructions as to how to act in case of German invasion.

Feb. 15—­First troops of new armies are pouring into France; enemy subjects denied admittance at ports.