November, 1915. 30 EUROPEAN WAR. GREAT BRITAIN-UNITED STATES. Great Britain requisitioned, without prize hearings, the vessels Genesee and Kankakee, of the Atlantic Transportation Company. See Oct. 31, 1915. 30 EUROPEAN WAR. Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy and Japan. Declaration engaging not to conclude peace separately during the present war. G. B. Treaty Series, Nos. 1 and 9, 1915; French and English texts: G. B. Treaty Series, No. 14, 1915. December, 1915. 2 EUROPEAN WAR. GREAT BRITAIN—UNITED STATES. Protest made to Great Britain against seizures of Hocking and Genesee. N. Y. Times, Dec. 2, 3, 4, 1915. 3 EUROPEAN WAR. GERMANY-UNITED STATES. Recall of Captain K. Boy-Ed, Naval attaché, and Captain Franz von Papen, military attaché of the German Embassy, asked by the United States. N. Y. Times, Dec. 7, 1915. 6 EUROPEAN WAR. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-UNITED STATES. The United States protested to Austria-Hungary against the sinking of the Ancona and demanded that the act be denounced, the officer who perpetrated the deed punished, and an indemnity paid for the American lives lost. Text: N. Y. Times, Dec. 13, 1915. 8 EUROPEAN WAR. FRANCE-UNITED STATES. The French cruiser Descartes searched the Porto Rican liners Coamo, Carolina and San Juan, taking from the vessels five Germans. N. Y. Times, Dec. 9, 11, 1915. 11 CHINA. President Yuan Shih-Kai accepted the throne of China offered him by the Council of State. N. Y. Times, Dec. 12, 1915. 13 EUROPEAN WAR. GREAT BRITAIN-UNITED STATES. Note from Great Britain in reply to the American note dealing with American and British exports to neutral countries. Text: N. Y. Times, Dec. 19, 1915. 14 EUROPEAN WAR. FRANCE-UNITED STATES. Note from the United States to France protesting against the seizures of Germans on American ships Coamo, Carolina and San Juan. N. Y. Times, Dec. 15, 1915. 15 EUROPEAN WAR. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-UNITED STATES. Reply of Austria-Hungary to the American note of Dec. 6, relating to the December, 1915. destruction of the Ancona. Text issued by the Department of State. Text: N. Y. Times, Dec. 19, 1915. 16 EUROPEAN WAR. UNITED STATES. The House of Representatives voted to extend the war tax another year. The present law expires, Dec. 31, 1915. N. Y. Times, Dec. 17, 1915. 19 EUROPEAN WAR. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-UNITED STATES. The United States sent a rejoinder to the answer of Austria-Hungary relating to the Ancona. N. Y. Times, Dec. 20, 1915. Text: N. Y. Times, Dec. 23, 1915. 22 EUROPEAN WAR. GREAT BRITAIN. British Order in Council issued requisitioning all British refrigerator ships. N. Y. Times, Dec. 23, 1915. 27 to January 8. Second Pan American Scientific Congress met in Washington December 27 and continued its sessions until January 8. 28 EUROPEAN WAR. UNITED STATES. Eight indictments were returned by a federal grand jury in New York charging a Congressman, an ex-congressman, and six other men with conspiring to restrain commerce in their efforts to hinder the shipment of war supplies to the allied Powers. N. Y. Times, Dec. 28, 1915. 29 EUROPEAN WAR. UNITED STATES-AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Second note from Austria-Hungary in reply to the American note of December 19 regarding the sinking of the Ancona. English text: N. Y. Times, Jan. 1, 1916. 30 EUROPEAN WAR. British passenger steamer Persia sunk in the Mediterranean near Alexandria, Egypt. Robert N. McNeil, U. S. Consul at Aden, lost. N. Y. Times, Jan. 1, 1916. EUROPEAN WAR. Great Britain announced that all post packages consigned to Germany and Austria containing contraband articles would be seized. N. Y. Times, Jan. 1, 1916. 31 EUROPEAN WAR. The Allies arrested the German, Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian consuls at Salonika. N. Y. Times, Jan. 1, 1916. 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