March 6--Parliament passes a law empowering Government to proclaim a state of siege until the end of the war, if such a step is thought necessary; military representatives of the Government are seeking to place large orders for arms and ammunition with American firms. March 12--Prime Minister Jonesco is quoted in a newspaper interview as saying that he is sure the Allies will force the Dardanelles, the result of which will be that Rumania will join the war. March 15--Rumania's war preparations are causing uneasiness in Austria-Hungary. March 18--Government seizes a large quantity of shells in transit from Germany for Turkish troops. RUSSIA. March 1--Paris Temps says that the Allies have reached an agreement by which Russia will have free passage through the Dardanelles. March 4--Village women capture and bind a detachment of German soldiers. March 24--Congress of Representatives of the Nobility, in annual session at Petrograd, passes resolutions stating that "the vital interests of Russia require full possession of Constantinople, and both shores of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the adjacent islands." TURKEY. March 9--American missionaries, arriving in New York from Jerusalem, say that the fall of the Dardanelles will probably mean a massacre of Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land. March 11--There is a panic in Constantinople and many foreigners are leaving. March 15--All Serbs and Montenegrins have been ordered to leave Constantinople within twenty-four hours. March 18--The rich are leaving Constantinople; Germans from the provinces are concentrating there. March 19--Appalling conditions prevail in Armenia, following massacres by Turks and Kurds. UNITED STATES. March 1--Indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York against the Hamburg-American Steamship Company and against officials of the line on the charge of conspiring against the United States by making out false clearance papers and false manifests in connection with voyages made by four steamships to supply German cruiser Karlsruhe and auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with coal and provisions; indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York against Richard P. Stegler, a German, Gustave Cook and Richard Madden on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in obtaining a passport. March 2--Three indictments charging the illegal transportation of dynamite in interstate commerce are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in Boston against Warner Horn, a German, who tried to destroy the international railway bridge at Vanceboro, Me., last month; extradition proceedings by Canada, officials state, will probably have to be halted until this indictment is disposed of. March 7--Horn is made a Federal prisoner in Maine.