on; Ambassador Gerard appeals for funds;
State Department has no funds, but will forward deposits for refugees.

Aug. 3--Bankers and Treasury Department officials agree on plan for
$3,500,000 gold shipment to tourists; hundreds reach Paris after many
hardships; fear in Berlin; both houses of Congress pass bill
appropriating $250,000 for relief; embassies will distribute funds.

Aug. 4--Mrs. O.H. Kahn loses automobiles in France; tourists unable to
leave Germany; many destitute in Paris; automobiles requisitioned for
war; President Wilson approves plan to send $5,000,000 from bankers and
national appropriation of $2,500,000 in gold; cruiser Tennessee will
carry it.

Aug. 5--Ambassador Herrick issues transports to stranded in Paris;
millionaires leave in cattle train for Havre; Ambassador Page praises
spirit of refugees; two committees in London to relieve distress;
cruiser Tennessee prepares to sail with relief fund; Congress votes
$2,500,000 appropriation; cruiser North Carolina will follow with more
gold if needed; Mayor Mitchel appoints relief committee.

Aug. 6--Americans in London get funds from Transportation Committee;
many obtain certificates of American citizenship in Paris; Tennessee
leaves with gold; Secretary Garrison will use transports rather than pay
exorbitant prices to charter ships; Board of Relief named to supervise
distribution of funds appropriated by Congress.

Aug. 7--Baroness von Andre and Anne W.N. Davis tell of brutal treatment
by German soldiers; Mrs. Philip Lydig tells of kind treatment by French;
Mrs. Herrick's American Ambulance Corps organized; $100,000 sent by
Treasury to Paris and $25,000 to Italy; many Americans leave via
Denmark; French and German railways will be open for departure of
Americans after mobilization is completed.

Aug. 8--A.M. Huntington and wife reported to be arrested in Bavaria and
held as spies; 7,000 Americans leave England; committee of American and
English bankers formed to administer $3,000,000 gold shipment; Secretary
Garrison confers with Haniel von Heimhausen, German Charge d'Affaires,
who says Americans will be allowed to leave Germany.

Aug. 9--One thousand five hundred Americans apply [Transcriber: original
'appy'] at Paris Embassy for transports; refugees arrive on the New
York; mines menace relief cruisers.

Aug. 10--Mayor of Berlin and others move to care for refugees in
Germany; many stranded in Bermuda.

Aug. 11--Cancellation of sailing of Oly