The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
EUROPEAN WAR


Fanatic wife. the duchess Of Hohenberg.
shot and killed by a student in Sara3evo.
capital of Bosnia. after a futile attempt
had been made TO blow them UP with a
bomb
JuIy 2s.-Austria sent peremptory note
to Servia demanding punishment Of all
accomplices in murder OF Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand and suppression OF all So
cieties which had fomented rebellion In
Bosnia.
July 2s-Troops mobilized by Austria.
servia. Russia and Montenegro. Servtans
noved their capital to Nish
July 2S.-Austria declared war against
0ervia.
Jrly 2e-Austrians invaded servia and
sheiled Belgrade.
July M.-Kaiser demanded Russian mob
iIzation cease and car refused Martial
law proclaimed in Germany.
Stock exchanges in nearly all cities OF
the world closed.
Aug 1-Germany declared war on Rus
ella and modified its army. Gar declared
martial law and France issued decree Of
mobilization Italy declared its neutral
fly.
Aug 2.-German troops advanced on
France through neutral Luxembourg.
Russia began invasion of East Prussia
and Posen.
lug. 3.-Germans started three armies
toward France. through Belgium. violat-
ing the neutrality OF that country.
French troops crossed German frontier
in Vosges mountains
Aug. 4-Great Britain demanded that
Germany withdraw her troops from Bel
GUM Germany and England declared
war on each other and Germany declared
war Belgium. France declared war on
Germany.
United States proclaimed its neutrality.
Aug 5.-Germans repulsed at Liege by
Belgians.
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener made
British secretary of state for war.
President Wilson offered the services of
the United States as mediator.
,g. 6.-Austria- Hungary declared war
on Russia
British cruiser Amphion sunk by Ger
man mine.
Aug. 7.-Germans entered Lieze.
Aug s.-Twenty thousand English troops
landed French coast French invaded
A SAGE Lorraine and captured Altkirch
and Muehlhausen.
Italy reafirned its neutrality.
Aug 1o-France broke Off diplomatic
relations with Austria-Hungary.
Aug. 11.-French driven out Of Cernay
and Muelhausen.
Aug. 1s-Germans occupied Hasselt.
Tongres and st. Trond. Belgium. France
and England declared war on Austria.
Aug 15-Japan issued ultimatum to Ger
many demanding withdrawal of German
warships from the Orient and evacuation
OF Kiauchau.
Aug T-BeIgian seat of government.
was transferred from Brussels to Ant
werp.
Beginning of five days battle in Lor-
raine, ending in repulse of French across
frontier with heavy loss. Beginning OF
i've DAYS battle between Servians and
Austrians the Jadar. ending in Aus
TRAN rout
Aug 19-Brussels occupied by the Ger
mans. the allies retiring to Antwerp.
Servians defeated $1,000 Austrians at
Shabats. forty miles west of Belgrade
Aug O.-French recaptured Muelhausen.
Alsace. but were driven back in Lorraine.
Aug 21.-Germans began bombardment
Of Namur forts and levied war tax Of
$40. eoc. eco on Brussels and 600 on
Iiege.
Aug 2c-Germans occupied Client and
B-uges.
Aug. 2s-Japan declared war on Ger
many.
Luneville. France occupied by the Ger
Russians drove back the Germans from
the eastern frontier.
Aug. 24.-The allied armies along the
nine from Mons to the Mose1le defeated
and driven back by thu Germans.
Germans captured Namur drove the
Frerch out of Alsace and advanced from
Lorraine into France.
japanese warships began bombardment
of Using Tao. fortified seaport of Kiau-
cneu.
Aug c5-Austria declared war on ia
pan.
Germans levied a war tax of 800 oo0. 600
on the Belgian province Of Brabant.
Aug. os. French cabinet resigned and
new cabinet formed by Premier Viviani.
Russians took Marienhurg. German Is
land of Yap near Guam seized by Japa-
nese Austrian defeated Russians on Call
clan frontier Louvain sacked and burned
BY Germans.
Aug 27.-British cruiser Highfyer de-
stroved German armed merchant cruiser
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse off west coast
of Africa.
Aug. es.-British fleet sunk flve German
warships off Helgoland.
Allies checked the march OF Germans to
Paris and terrific battle was begun at
kr-as and one near Nancy.
Austria declared war on Belgium.
Aug ce.-British forces from New Zea-
land seized Apia. chief town of German
Samoa
Russians defeated near Tannenberg.
Aug. 3o-Germans occupied Amiens
Sept. Seat OF French government
moved TO Bordeaux.
Russians captured Lemberg. Austria.
after seven DAYS battle.
Sept. 5.-Germans captured Reims.
Sept. 6.-British cruiser Pathfinder sunk
by torpedo in North sea.
Sept ALLIES victorious in q battle
along the line from Nanteufl to verdun.
the imperial guard under the German
crown prince being nearly annihilated by
the British.
Germans destroyed Dinant and captured
Msubeuge
Sept. S.-Allies pushed back the entire
Zine Of invading Germans.
Sept. s.-British forced Germans to re-
treat along the river Marine.
Sept. n--Russians drove the Germans
from several fortified positions in Russian
Poland. but repulsed with heavy losses IN
East Prussia.
Sept 12--British warships from Aus
ual'a took Herbertshoehe. seat OF gc"Arn-