Lüderitzbucht, occupied, [322], [421], 29.
Nigeria, German raids, [449];
North and South Protectorates, amalgamation, [450];
Tin mining, [450].
Portuguese West Africa, Angola, Germans enter, [452], 32;
Bowskill, Rev. J. S., his arrest, [452].
Togoland, Kamina occupied by the British, [183], [451].

Air raids: on Brussels, [252];
Cologne, 29;
Cuxhaven, [252], 37;
Dover Castle, [252];
Düsseldorf, 29, 30;
Freiburg, 36;
Friedrichshafen, [245], 35;
Sheerness, [252];
protection against Germans, [214].

ALBANIA, STATE OF. Burhan-ed-Din Effendi, usurpation by, [357], 29.
Durazzo, demands of the insurgents, [355].
Epirus, insurrection, [354].
Essad Pasha, receives Prince William of Wied, [353];
appointed War Minister, [354];
deported, [355];
Prime Minister, [357].
Ismail Kemal Bey, President of Provisional Government, resigns, [353].
Koritza, intertribal feud at, [354].
Turkhan Pasha, his Cabinet, [354].
Wied, Prince William of, Mpret, [353];
at Durazzo, [354];
on the difficulties of his position, [356];
insurrection against, [356].

Albert Hall, meetings at, [34], [90];
Peace Centenary Costume Ball, 17.

Alexandra Day, sale of roses, 19

Alexandra, Queen, inspects Boy Scouts, 17;
honorary colonelcies conferred on, 19

AMERICA.—Vide Canada, Mexico, Newfoundland, United States, West Indies

AMERICA, CENTRAL.
Guatemala, [487].
Nicaragua, Treaty with the United States, [461], [487].
Panama, Canal opened, [486], 26;
Sanitation in, [487]

AMERICA, SOUTH.
Argentina, Budget, [490];
debts, amount of, [490].
Bolivia, treatment of natives, [493];
railway, construction, [492].
Brazil, Braz, Dr. W., appointed President, [489];
Budget, [489];
Ceara, State of, rebellion, [488];
Roosevelt, T., "Through the Brazilian Wilderness," [489], 54.
Chile, Anglo-German naval engagement, [247], [492], 33;
financial crisis, [491];
neutrality, [492];
Railway Bill, [492].
Colombia, Concha, Don J. V., elected President, [493];
neutrality, failure to observe, [227], [238], [494];
Treaty with the United States, [461], [494].
Ecuador, neutrality, breaches of, [227], [238], [493].
Paraguay, [491].
Peru, Benavides, Col., deposes the President, [490];
elected President, [491];
Billinghurst, President, deposed and exiled, [490].
Uruguay, monetary crisis, [491];
Public debt, [491];
railway construction, [491].
Venezuela, [494]

Amphion, H.M.S., sinks the Königin Luise, [181], 25

Ancient Monuments Act, prevents destruction of a Georgian house, 3

Andover, rioting at, 18

Anniversaries, celebration of, Benedictine Abbey at Disentis, 23;
Boyne, [152].
See also Centenaries

Anson, Sir D., drowned, 21

Armstrong, Sir W., resigns Directorship of the National Gallery of Ireland, 8

Army, increase of the, [180];
mobilisation, 25;
the new formation of, [183];
number of the, [234]

Army Order "Discipline," in Ulster Crisis, [63]

ART.—Retrospect of: Artists' War Fund, 68.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, 67.
Exhibitions, 66, 67.
Fine Art Society's Gallery, 67.
Grosvenor Gallery, 67, 68.
Leicester Galleries, 67.
London Museum, opened, 68.
Royal Academy Exhibition, 66.
Sales, 67, 68, 69.
Tate Gallery, pictures presented to, 68.
Victoria and Albert Museum, statues presented to, 34, 68;
free admission, 68

Ashburnham, Earl of, sale of his collection, 10

Ashton, A. J., appointed Recorder of Manchester, 4

Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., appointed Secretary of State for War, [64], 11;
on the development of Inter-Imperial trade, 9

AUSTRALASIA.—Vide New South Wales, New Zealand, Polynesia, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

AUSTRALIA.—Budget, [498].
Cook, J., Prime Minister, his resignation, [498].
Denman, Lord, resigns the Governor-Generalship, [498], 4.
Development works, [499].
Dominions, Royal Commission, Report, 4.
Election, general, [498].
Ferguson, Sir R. M., appointed Governor-General, [498], 5.
Fisher, Mr., appointed Prime Minister, [498];
his views on Imperial Defence, [503].
German New Guinea, expedition against, [496].
Holmes, Col., in command of the Expeditionary Force, [496].
Marshall Islands, handed over, [496].
Ministry, the new, [498].
Navy, construction, [499].
Northern territory, [502];
railway construction, [502].
Papua, [503].
Rain, shortage of, [494].
Recruiting, response, [497].
Sydney, H.M.A.S., sinks the Emden, [410], [497], 34.
Volunteers, number of, [495].
War, feelings on the, [495]

—— SOUTH.—Galway, Sir L., appointed Governor, [501].
Young, F. W., Agent-General, [501]

—— WESTERN.—Election, general, [501].
McMillan, Mr., appointed Chief Justice, [502].
Ministry, the new, [502].
Railways, [502].
Scaddan, Mr., appointed Premier, [502]

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.—Army, mobilisation, [286], [332].
Berchtold, Count, on foreign policy, [328].
Charles Francis Joseph, Archduke, heir-presumptive, [330].
Delegations, opened, [327].
Espionage, cases of, [328].
Foreign policy, [328].
Francis Ferdinand, Archduke, murdered, [137], [329], 20;
his funeral, [329].
Hohenberg, Duchess of, murdered, [329], 20.
Lemberg, capture of, [335];
defeat at, [344].
Libau, bombardment, 34.
Miklossy, Bishop, bomb outrage on, 7.
Naval estimates, [327].
Navy, number of vessels, 8.
Poland, advance into, [343].
Ruthenians, trial of, [327].
Sarajevo, murder at, [137], [329], 20, 32.
Serbia, dispute with, [317];
ultimatum, [281], [312], [330]-[333];
reply, [332];
war with, [332], [360]-[362].
War, declaration of, [167], [188], [286], [334], 23, 26

—— Francis Joseph, Emperor of, his manifesto, [332]

Aviation Accidents. See Accidents

Aviation flights, Briggs, Engineer-Lieut., 9;
Gran, Lieut., 25;
Hamel, G., 5;
Linnekogel, O., 10;
Parmelin., 6;
Seddon, Lieut., 3


Badger, H.M.S., sinks a German submarine, 31

Bailey, Mrs. L., murder of, 20, 33

Baker, Dr. H. F., elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, 2

Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., his address at Bedford College, 13;
freedom of Hertford conferred, 20

BALUCHISTAN.—[402]

Bank Charter Act, suspension, [175]

Bank holiday, August, extension of, [169], [262]

Bank rate, high, [168], [262], 25;
reduced, [175], [262], 26

Baronetcies conferred, Beecham, Sir J., 19;
Benn, Sir J. W., 19;
Bowater, Sir T., 19;
Lowther, Sir G., 1;
Ward, Col. Sir E., 1

Batavier V., steamer, German lieutenant discovered in a box on board, 36

Bateson, Prof., President of the British Association, his address, 27

Battenberg, Prince Louis of, First Sea Lord, resigns, [226], 32

Beauchamp, Earl, appointed President of the Council, [174];
Order of the Garter conferred, 19

Bedford College, gift to, 3

Beecham, Sir J., baronetcy conferred, 19;
his purchase of Covent Garden Estate, 22

Beit, Otto, offers a South African Research Fellowship at Oxford, 7

BELGIUM.—Antwerp, siege of, [220], [294], [368], 30;
Court remove to, [366], 26.
Army mobilisation, [365].
British squadron, at the battle of the Yser, [370].
Brussels, occupied, [366], 27.
Dinant, sacked, [367].
Election, general, [363].
French troops enter, [367], 26.
German invasion, [288], [320], [366], 25;
atrocities, [367].
Insurance Bill, [363].
Liège, fall of, [366].
Louvain, bombardment, [194], [366], [367], 27.
Malines, fighting at, [368].
Mons, retreat from, [189], [367], 27.
Namur, fall of, [189], [288], [367], 27.
Neutrality, violation of, [174], [178], [283], [314], [364].
Ostend, occupied, [191], [193], [369].
Railways, reorganisation scheme, [363].
Refugees, number of, [221], [371].
Schools Bill, [363].
Termonde, bombardment, [368], 26.
United States, mission to, [371], [463].
Ypres-Armentières, battle of, [222]-[224].
Yser, battle of the, [224], [295], [368].
Zeebrugge, bombardment, [245]

—— Albert, King, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, [370]

BELGIUM, Elizabeth, Queen of, at Dover, [371], 27

Benedict XV., elected Pope, [203], 27;
his appeal for peace, 28

Berwick, H.M.S., captures the Spreewald, 28

Birkenhead, Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Co., engineering works opened by the King, [67]

Birmingham, H.M.S., sinks the German submarine U. 15, 26

Bisley, National Rifle meeting at, 23, 24;
rifle ranges opened on Sunday, 11

Blind, National institute for the, new buildings opened, 10;
midnight ball in aid of, 19;
provision of books in Braille type, 14

Blomfield, Miss M., intercedes for hunger-strikers at Court, [116], 16

Boat-races. See Sports

Bond, L., arrested, 6;
attempted suicide, 6

Brade, Sir R. H., appointed Secretary of Army Council, 2

British Association, at Sydney, [499], 27, 61, 63

British Museum, suffragist damage at, [71];
Edward VII. Galleries opened, 13

Bryce, Viscount, honorary degree, 19

Buckingham Palace, suffragist riot, [112], 14;
windows broken, [113];
Conference on the Ulster question, [158], [161], [258], 23;
members, [158];
views on, [159];
King's speech at, [159];
failure, [161], [258], 23;
man arrested in, 17;
patriotic demonstration before, 25

Buckland, W. W., appointed Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge, 5

Budget. See Parliament

BULGARIA.—Budget, provisional, [358].
Election, general, [358].
Neutrality, policy of, [359].
Radoslavoff, M., re-appointed Premier, [358]

Buresk, collier, captured, 29

Burney, Rev. C. F., appointed Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford, 19

Burns, Rt. Hon. J., appointed President of the Board of Trade, [27];
his resignation, [173]

Buxton, N., and C. R., wounded by a Young Turk, [360], 31

—— Rt. Hon. S., appointed Governor-General of South Africa, [27]

Bye-elections. See Elections


Cæsar, death of King Edward's dog named, 12

Caldey Island, dedication of the House of St. Benedict, 13

Camberwell, German shops wrecked by a mob, 31

Cambridge University, Baker, Dr. H. F., elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, 2;
Pearce, Rev. E. C., elected Master of Corpus Christi College, 29;
Physiological laboratories opened, 17

CANADA.—Alberta, [479].
Borden, Sir R., on the war, [476].
British Columbia, [479].
Budget, [472].
Connaught, Duke of, his speech on the opening of Parliament, [469], [476];
address to, [475].
Empress of Ireland, disaster, [474].
Estimates, [471].
Farmers' Bank failure, [472].
Frost, severe, 3.
Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway, completion, [473], 11.
Laurier, Sir W., on the War, [476].
Manitoba, [478].
Naturalisation and Alien's Act, [474].
New Brunswick, [478].
Northern Railway, [473].
Nova Scotia, [478].
Ontario, [477].
Parcels Post system, [470].
Prince Edward Island, [478].
Protective policy, [470], [472].
Quebec, [478].
Redistribution of Seats Bill, [471], [474].
Revenue, [472].
Saskatchewan, [479].
Strathcona, Lord, tributes to, [470].
Teck, Prince Alexander of, appointed Governor-General, [474], 13.
Trade, [472].
Transcontinental Railway, report on construction of, [471].
Volunteers, numbers of, [477];
at Plymouth, 30.
War session, [475];
gifts, [477]

Cannon Street Hotel, meeting at, for reduction of naval expenditure, [7]

Canteens Case, trials, 15, 20

Carlisle, Sir E. H., his gift to Bedford College, 3

Carlton Club, meeting at, [204]

Carman, Mrs., her trial for murder, 20;
jury disagrees, 32

Carson, Sir E., at Belfast, [6];
his house picketed by suffragists, [72], [112];
his reviews of the Ulster Volunteers, [80];
reception at Belfast, [152]

Centenaries, celebration of, Bacon, R., 17;
König, F., 18

Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. J., retires from Parliament, [4], 2;
his death, [144], 20;
funeral, [144], 22;
memorial service, [145];
obituary, 98

Channel, English, war precautions, 35

Chaplin, Milne, Grenfell & Co., failure of,