The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-12-31

New York.
Sept a. : Refreshing German army
halted in strongly intrenched position /
along the Aisne river. Amiens reoccupied /
by the French.
Sept a-Three British cruisers were
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine |
In the North sea.
Sept @.-British troops from IndsA !
| landed at Marseilles.
Sept. 2s.-Germans began attack on de- |
fenses OF Antwerp.
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at AugustoWo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct. 5.-Belgian government moved to
Ostend.
Oct. s.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyck, East Prus-
sia.
Oct. 1o.-German army of 1000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht, east Of Client
Oct. 11.-Germany imposed war fine of
800. 10000 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
| submarines.
Oct. 12-Ghent occupied by the Ger
/ mans.
Oct. 1S.-Belgian government moved to
Havre. France.
Colonel Maritz and his troops in the
| northwest of Cape province, South Africa,
rebelled. Martial law proclaimed through
out Union OF South Africa.
Oct. 15.-Germans occupied ostend and
Bruges.
Oct 16-British cruiser Hawke sunk in
the North sea by German submarine.
Oct. H.-Japanese cruiser Takachiho
| sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North sea.
Oct 1s-Allies recaptured Armentieres.
Oct. 1s-Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast. British warships taking part.
Oct. 2s.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace.
at the point of the bayonet.
Oct. A-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct S.-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south.
Oct. 26.-Germans bombarded Nieuport
but were checked by allies
Maritz and his rebel force defeated by
Union Of South Africa troops.
Prinzip. slayer of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife, and % others
found guilty of treason.
! Won FaIkenhayn, German minister of
war. made chief of staff to succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. 2s.-De Wet and Beyers Joined in
South Africa revolt
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
5 Russians reoccuplcd Lodz and Radon.
= Germans retreating
Oct. 2s.-Prinzip was Sentenced to "a
years Imprisonment; four of his accom-.
pllces sentenced to death and others to
t various terms Of Imprisonment
Botha reported the rout Of the rebel
4 | Beers.
I German cruiser Emden torpedoed Rus
\ sian cruiser and French destroyer in Pc
nang harbor
Oct 29-Turkey began war on Russia
v the cruiser BresIau bombarding odessa
Theodosia and other places on the Black
e sea.
NoN. british cruiser Hermes sunk by
Il German submarine in Dover straits.
Five German warships engaged foul
r British warships off the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; the
= fourth escaped
Nov. 3.-British and French fleet bonn
barded the Dardanelles forts, and British
IS vessels destroyed the barracks Of Akabah
d Arabia.
h Germans abandoned left bank OF thu
User below Dixmude.
Nov. 5-France, Great Britain and Rus
lc sia declared war on Turkey Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus.
" Nov 6-The sheik-ul-I Islam ordered
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
t. land.
,e Nov 7-German fortress of Using Tao
China, stormed by japanese and Britisl
r. and captured.
IN Nov. 9.-Belgian troops penetrated t
IN Ostend
Ypres set fire by German shells and de
Mt stroved
t. German cruiser Emden driven ashor
on Cocos islands and destroyed by Aus
r. tralian cruiser Sydney.
So Nov. 10-Russian fleet in Black sea san
of four Turkish transports.
Id Nov. 1-Britsh gunboat Niger sunk b
s. n torpedo off Deal
Russians occupied Johannesburg, Eas
r Prussia.
Germans captured Dixmude.
at Nov 15-Germans forced from all pos
tions on left bank Of the User.
n British destroyed Turkish fort at er
e trance to Red sea.
mt Nov 16-FIoods in West Flanders Gu
Of off large number of Germans.
on Pope issued encyclical urging cessatio
of warfare.
nd Nov 1S.-Russians checked by German
at Soldau after four days Of bloody fight
r. ing.
Nov. 22-Ypres bombarded by German
r. town hall and market place being d.
stroyed.
I'M Nov 23-Russians won great victor
over Germans who were advancing O
he Warsaw.
ed Nov. A-Germans opened terrific a
tack on the allies from Ypres to L
he Bassee. 1884,
I'm Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge d.
molished by shells from British fleet.
mt Nov. 26-British battleship Bulwark d.
u stroyed by explosion of Sheerness.
Nov. N-Germans renewed fierce bor
Ia bardment Of Reims.
Two British ships sunk of Havre |
900 German submarines. and one Off Grimst
by mine.
nd Dec 1.-Germans cut their way cut
nj. the Russian trap In Poland but with gre
is losses.
Va General De Wet. Boer rebel leader. On
III tured.
ed Dec. 2.-Germans in Poland resumed Il
offensive.
ie- Belgrade, capital of Servia. occupied |
ser the Austrians
ast Dec. 6-Germans occupied Lodz, Ru
sian Poland. after severe bombardment.
an Dec 7-Germans defeated Russia
north and south of ISodz.
to Dec S-German cruisers Scharnhors
at Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg. und
Admiral Won Spec, sunk by British squa
ron under Vice-Admirai Sir Frederi
a. Sturdee off the Falkland islands. T.
an Dresden, badly damaged, escaped.
Emperor william i'll in Berlin.
General Beyers, rebel Boer leader, I
ported dead
emit Turkish forces at Kurna, at head OF Pc
sian gulf, surrendered to a British expet
ia, tionary force from India
Dec. 9-Terrifc fighting around LOWE
Russian Poland.
ink Dec. 10--Alles captured Roulers q
ArmentiereS.
tie Austrians in Servia compelled to 1
un treat.
am Dec. 11.-Russians checked three of t
by five German columns advancing on We
saw.