well, Strathmore, Honoria, Cassio, Hermione, Sutton, and Emblem, the crews escaping; German submarines sink Norwegian sailing ships Harboe and G. P. Harbitz, and Danish steamer Nogill. July 28-German submarines sink British steamer Mangara, British trawlers Iceni and Salacia, British smack Westward Ho, Swedish steamer Emma, Swedish bark Sagnadalen, and Danish schooners Maria, Neptunis, and Lena.

July 29 German submarines sink Belgian steamship Princesse Marie Jose and Swedish bark Fortune, the crews being saved. July 30 German submarine sinks Norwegian steamship Trondhjemsfjord.

July 31-German submarine sinks the British steamer Iberian of the Leyland Line; German submarines sink eight British trawlers, crews being saved.

Aug. 7-German submarines sink British steamer Glenravel, British trawler Ocean Queen, and Swedish steamer Malmland. Aug. 8.-British submarine in the Dardanelles sink a battleship, a gunboat, and a transport, all Turkish.

Aug. 9-A submarine of the Entente powers sinks Turkish battleship Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa, formerly the Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm of the German Navy. Aug. 10-German submarine burns Danish

July 20-Thirty-eight French aviators bombard the station at Conflans-en-Janisy; six French aeroplanes bombard Colmar station, dropping sixteen shells on buildings and trains; four French aeroplanes drop forty-eight shells at the junction station at Challerange, south of Vouziers. July 22-French aviators bombard the station of Autry, northwest of Binarville. July 23-German aeroplanes drop bombs on the railway triangle at St. Hilaire, in Champagne.

July 27-Austrian aeroplane drops twelve bombs on Verona.

Aug. 6-Italian dirigibles bombard Austrian encampments and railroad stations. Aug. 9-Twenty-eight French aeroplanes bombard the station and factories of Saarbrücken, northeast of Metz.

Aug. 10-A squadron of Zeppelins bombards the English east coast. GERMANY.

July 17-The Foreign Office has issued a report on conditions in Belgium during the early days of the war, which is a reply to the findings of Lord Bryce's Belgian Atrocity Commission.

Aug. 1-The Teutonic allies, after a year of war, occupy 78,378 square miles of hostile territory.

GREAT BRITAIN.

July 20-Largely through the work and influence of Lloyd George, the Welsh coal miners' strike is ended.

July 27-The casualties in the British Army and Navy have reached a total of 330,995; the total military casualties up to July 18 were 321,889, and the total naval casualties up to July 20 were 9,106.

July 31-British estimates show that the first year of the war has given a total loss in men killed of 2,500,000 and a total loss in men wounded of 5,000,000.

RUSSIA.

Aug. 9-Petrograd newspapers announce that the Czar has rejected an offer of peace made to him by the Kaiser through the King of Denmark.

UNITED STATES. July 16-Formal notice is given to Great Britain through Ambassador Page that the United States holds that the rights of Americans, who have cases before British prize courts, rest upon international law, and not upon various Orders in Council or municipal law. July 24-The text is made public of the third note from the United States to Germany on the Lusitania and on submarine warfare generally; President Wilson has called for reports on the subject of national defense.

July 25-Telegrams from people in all parts of the United States, approving the last note to Germany, are received by President Wilson; the Berlin press assails the note, declaring it is unneutral and threatening.

July 26-British Government replies to the American note of March 30, protesting against the British Orders in Council aiming to cut off overseas trade with Germany.

Aug. 2-Two supplemental notes are received from Great Britain defending her blockade; a note is received from Germany upholding her contentions in the Frye

case.

RELIEF.

July 25-Official Red Cross statement made public at Washington says that American Red Cross doctors and nurses will be withdrawn from the European battle front on Oct. 1, because of lack of funds to maintain them longer at their stations.