October 5

President Poincare

President Poincare visits the headquarters of the Allied armies.

British forces in Antwerp rise to 8,000.

The Prince of Wales Fund reaches £3,000,000.

September 2

Due to the continuing advance of the Germans, the French Government relocates to Bordeaux.

The Russian Government renames St Petersburg "Petrograd", meaning "Peter's City", to remove the German words Sankt and Burg.

The 26th Brigade RFA marches to Chambry.

The Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund reaches £2,000,000 (see August 15).

Punch publishes another fine cartoon by Bernard Partridge, depicting the classical figures of Liberty and Belgium.

LIBERTY (To Belgium) "TAKE COMFORT. YOUR COURAGE IS VINDICATED; YOUR WRONGS SHALL BE AVENGED"

August 15 - British East Africa invaded

British East Africa

German forces from German East Africa occupy Taveta in British East Africa.

The Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund reaches the astonishing figure of £1,000,000 within a week.  

It was on 7 August that the Prince of Wales made an urgent appeal in The Times:

"All must realise that the present time of deep anxiety will be followed by one of considerable distress among the people of this country least able to bear it. We must earnestly pray that their suffering may be neither long nor bitter, but we cannot wait until the need presses heavily upon us. The means of relief must be ready in our hands. To ally anxiety will go some way to stay distress. A National Fund has been founded, and I am proud to act as its Treasurer. My first duty is to ask for generous and ready support, and I know that I shall not ask in vain. At such a moment we all stand by one another, and it is to the heart of the British people that I confidently make this earnest appeal. Edward." 

The British Medical Journal apologises for its reduction in size. "The main reason for this curtailment is the shortage of paper, which has become a very serious difficulty for the periodical press. The consumption is greater owing to the enormous demand for the many editions of the newspapers, and the supply has greatly diminished owing to the stoppage of exports of paper and material from the Continent and the other side of the Atlantic. The supplies from the latter source will, it is hoped, shortly increase ..."