von Stenger ordered killing of wounded.
Dec. 12--Some women refugees at Kiao-Chau want to go to America.
Dec. 14--Socialists disapprove of the anti-war stand taken by Dr.
Liebknecht, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, who alone of that body
opposed the new war credit.
Dec. 15--Bavarian soldiers to be court-martialed for mutiny at Antwerp.
Dec. 18--Rumors that Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz will be the new
Belgian King.
Dec. 19--Relations between the Prussian Government and the Poles have
improved.
Dec. 21--George Weill, member of the Reichstag from Metz, is fighting in
the French Army; Chile protests against alleged violations of her
neutrality by the navy.
Dec. 22--Supplies in Ghent commandeered for Christmas celebration.
Dec. 24--Germany denies French charges that neutral ships have been
hired to lay mines in the Mediterranean.
Dec. 27--Commander of the Yorcke gets two-year term for losing vessel;
German spy seized while trying to enter Gibraltar disguised as a Moor.
Dec. 30--British prisoner sentenced to death for assaulting a German
officer.
Dec. 31--Kaiser sends New Year's greetings to President Wilson and the
United States; German press has received with exultation the news of
American note on British interference with American commerce.
Jan. 7--United States State Department informs Ambassador von Bernstorff
that the United States cannot investigate the German charge that British
use dumdum bullets; German military authorities in Belgium deny that
Cardinal Mercier has been arrested.
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