BELGIUM.

Feb. 5--Government protests against annulment by Germany of exequaturs
of Consuls of neutral powers.

Feb. 8--Letter from Cardinal Mercier to the higher clergy of his diocese
protests against violation of his rights as a Belgian and as a Cardinal;
legation in Washington denounces tax imposed by Germans on refugees who
fail to return to Belgium.

Feb. 18--Germany withdraws interdiction against correspondence by
Cardinal Mercier with Belgian Bishops.

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