The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-05

north.
Monday, October 5-English mar
ines with artillery arrive at Ant
werp to assist in the defense against
the Germans.
October Germans and Aus
trians prepare to make a defensive
stand by digging strong intrench-
ments along the Siesian frontier.
October S-Germans penetrate
outer line of Antwerp forts and begin
to batter at the inner defensos. The
Belgian government moves from Ant
werp to Ostend. Russian Minister Of
War says the Cars army is occupy
ing $4,000 square miles Of Austrian
territory.
October 9-At 9 a. m. Antwerp
surrenders to the Germans.
October 10-The fleeing Belgian
Queen arrives in England. Germans
said to be planning an attack on
England. Severe fighting about Ar
ras and on the heights along the
Meuse.
October 1.-THE Belgian army
extricates itself from Antwerp and
falls back on Ostend.
Monday, October 12-Victoriou
Germans occupy Ghent. King Ferdi-
nand succeeds King Charles as ruler
of Roumania, and greatly lessons the
possibility of that country joining
the Germans.
October 13-Revolt breaks out in
the northwest part of the British col
ony in the African Cape Province.
The rebellion is led by Colonel Solo
mon G. Maritz, former Boer officer.
Germans advance on Warsaw and are
reported to have occupied all Rus
sian Poland west of that city. Five
Austrian generals are retired.
October 14-The allies occupy
Ypres. Portugal moblizes troops
preparing to place them at the dis
posal of Great Britain.
October 15-Germans occupy Bru-
ges. Eighty South African rebels
captured by Government troops.
October 17--Four German de-
stroyers sunk by English cruiser off
the coast of Holland. Germans ad-
vance to Ostend. Allies reported
standing firm from Armentieres to
the North Sea.
October 1S-The Belgian army
concentrates along line from Nieu-
port to the French border, and re-
pulses German attacks.
Monday, October 19--British war
ships assist the allies fighting along
the coast between Dixmunde and
Nieuport. Japanese cruiser Takachi-
cho sunk in Kiao-chow bay.
October 20-British submarine T.
8, new from the yards, sunk by Ger
man cruiser in North Sea.
October 21-Relations between
Turkey and Russia are strained to
the breaking point. At last a job
is found for the Hague Tribunal
Austria and Italy agree to refer their
dispute over mines to that court.
October 22-Russians report that
the Germans have been repulsed in
their attacks on Warsaw and that
the Russians are driving the enemy
before them.
: October 23-Russians report ao-
: solute and crushing defeat of the
German army that attacked Warsaw
I October 26-Petrograd reports
! that the Germans evacuate Lodz and
continue their retirement which is
characterized as 'precipitate flight
General Won Moltke has been reliev-
ed as German Chief Of staff, his place
being taken by General Won Falken-
hayn. Illness of the former chief is
given as the reason.
!, October 2S-The omnipresent En-
den sinks small Jap steamer.
October 29-England is training
an army Of 100000 men, of which
800, 900 are territorials and already
l used to handling arms. The English
army now in Europe Is described as
t a mere advance guard of what is to
follow. British destroyers sink
r German converted destroyer in the
a. Adriatic. The Emden again, flying
a Japanese flag and disguised by the
r addition of a false funnel, creeps in
to Penang harbor, British poses
r sion, sinks the Russian cruiser Jem
tchug, sends French destroyer to
| the bottom and gets away undam-
aged.
A October 30-Turkey enters the
war, making 1t struggle Of 10 ma
s tions. There is every likelihood now
I that Bulgaria, Greece, Roumania,
and Portugal will enter the conflict
t on the side of the allies. The Turks
e neglect to make declaration of war.
$ Instead their warships sweep the
: Black Sea, sinking two Russian mer-
chant ships. A fleet bombards Theo-
Q dOsia in the Crimea and enters the
port of Odessa. There they sink a
/ small Russian gunboat and damage
a French liner.
4 October 31--British cruiser Her.
mes is caught away from the flock,
off Dunkirk and sent to the bottom
: by busy German submarine. The
I; Hermes was an old-timer and her loss
0 is not much of blow. But the fact
Of her sinking makes England ner-
a vous just the same. 1t means that
s the Germans have succeeded In ship
: ping submarines across country piece