_Affiches_, of the Burgomaster of Antwerp, 53 of the Burgomaster of Brussels, 10, 11, 181, 182 forbidding a menacing look, etc., 32 German, proclaiming victories, 30, 67 German, of Von der Golst, 67, 68 instructions to citizens, 67 American Consul, help from, 66, 77 Antwerp, the forts of, 73 the heavy guns, 73 news of the downfall of, 96 Austrian prisoners, 148 Automobiles of the Flying Column, 146, 169 Belgian Red Cross Society, 5, 12 Bishop, sad fate of the, 103 Boden, a night at, 103, 104 Brassard, the Red Cross, 61 Brussels, fortifications of, 9 German patients in fire-station hospital at, 20 hospitals in, 13 occupied by the Germans, 14 the start to, 6, 7 Burgomaster of Antwerp, 53 of Brussels, 10, 11, 54, 74 of Charleroi, 20 Camp, a German, 61, 62 Cannon, distinction between French and German, 40 Cholera, rumours of, 97 Charleroi, burning of, 20, 22, 32 and Charleville, 36 terrorization of peasants in, 33 Christmas Eve in Zyradow, 167 fare, 170 Cologne, arrival at, 85-87 Copenhagen, arrival at, 92 Danish-German soldiers as guards, 81 Danish welcome, a, 92 Death of a Breton soldier, 44 of a certain French count, 48, 49 Difference in French and German equipment, 47 Echevins of Brussels, 74 Empress Marie Federovna, interview with, 111 Equipment of French and German soldiers, 47 Expulsion of nurses and doctors from Brussels, 80 Firing at the Red Cross, 35 Fire-station hospital, 13, 19, 20 _Flandres Liberale_, 71 Flying Column, 125, 126 Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, 107 French convent, a, 60 prisoners as patients, 28, 29 German officers' behaviour at Herbesthal, 83 patients at fire-station, 20 patients at M----, 41 preparations for war, 33 surgeon at M----, 31 Grand Duchess Cyril's Hospital in Warsaw, 144 Hamburg, 88, 89 Hansen, Dr. Norman, 95 Harsh treatment of wounded, 42 Haparanda, 104 Herbesthal, search at, 83 Holland, rumoured war with, 31 "Hoosh," 85 Hotel Cosmopolite, Copenhagen, 92 Hotel d'Europe, Warsaw, 124 Hotel at Lodz, 140 Ikons, 115, 173 Improvised hospital from theatre, 152 Infiladed trench, a, 162 Insects, 139 Inscription over gateway in Charleroi, 30 Interview with Dowager Empress of Russia, 111 St. John Ambulance Society, 5, 97 Jumet, the burning of, 21 Karungi, 104 Kiel Canal, 90 Liege, 65, 83 Lodz, 131 hospital at, 132-38 shelling of, 132, 135 London, first week of the war, 2 Louvain, destruction of, 81 refugees from, 11 Lowice, 150 Luggage problem, the, 126 Malines, 60, 63, 81 M---- Red Cross Hospital, 23 Committee, 28 dinner-time, 27 a night on duty, 23-24 the cure of, 44 Max, Monsieur, 10, 11, 55, 74 Maubeuge taken, 41 Muenster, breakfast at, 88 Neutrality of Belgium, 82 of Denmark, 100 Newspaper boy caught by Germans, 71, 72 Night in the trenches, a, 171-74 Nurses in Brussels, 8, 19, 66 Operation, a severe, 25, 26 Ostend in August, 7 Patients sent off to Germany, 41, 46