River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-12-24
OF THE GREAT
ON LAND AND SEA
Aerial Warfare and Work
OF the Submarine Slips
and MIneS The War
al a Glance

forts al Antwerp
4 Antwerp Germans began lombard
| ment of Antwerp
! Galicia: Series of combats called the
battle of the Vistula IN Galcia. be-
tween Russians and Austrians began.
Antwerp Falls Capture OF Antwerp
by the Germans King Albert and
the government escaped To uStend.
| IL Bombs In Paris: German avlatorS
dropped bombs in Paris
! lS Gaica: The battle on the Nistula.
which began on the 7th. ragged flu
riously
South Africa Beers in South Africa re-
! belled against British rule
! l6 Belgium Germans took possession of
Ostend
Naval The British cruiser Hawke was
sunk in North sea by German subnla-
rine 10 Hawke lost asa men
H. Naval Battle British cruiser Tn
daumted with four destroyers, sank
| four German destroyers off the lputch
coast. German loss 1873
| Naval: The Japanese cruiser Takachlho
sunk by German submarine ON the
coast of China
| Is. Galicia The battle OF the Nistula IN
Galicla ended in Russian victory
Naval British submarine E-3 sunk by
a German warship IN the North sea
| - Naval Austrian submarine sunk IN
the Adriatic by French cruiser
20 Naval Japanese destroyed the ter
|
| chau bay
a. Naval The German cruiser Emden
sank four British steamers and cap
tured one off the coast OF British India.
| Poland German troops within ten miles
of Warsaw, Russian Poland. retreated
as The result of a prolonged battle
"A. Naval: British destroyer Badger ram
| med and sunk a German submarine
| off the Dutch coast
| Begium Germans crossed the Yser-
| Ypres canal near Newport.
| 26 South Africa Second revolt Of the
| Beers in South Africa Former Boer
| generals, De Wet and Beyers. appear
ed at the head OF this movement
| Poland. Desperate battle III progress
near Pliza river in Russian Poland.
| Russian advance forced the Austro-
| Germans to withdraw
e. Naval: British battleship Audacious
hopelessly wrecked by a German sub
marine mine off the northeast coast
| of ireland
2S. Naval Action: German cruiser Emden
sank the Russian cruiser Jemtchug
and a French destroyer at Penang.
! British strait settlements.
o. Turkey: Turkish warships. Goeben
| and Breslau sank two Russian war
ships in the Black sea Turkish torpe-
do boats raded harbor OF Odessa ana
sank Russian gunboat and Turk
ish cruiser bombarded Sebastopo
| so Belgium Belgian troops flooded the
German lines on the river User, COM
polling the Germans to withdraw
Turkey: Turkish government severed
communications with Great Britain;
also declared war on Russia
81. Naval: German submarine sunk the
British cruiser Hermes In the strait
of Dover
NOVEMBER.
L Naval Battle: Battle off Chile De-
tween the German cruisers Scharn-
horst, Gneisenau. Leipzig and l)res-
den and the British Good Hope. Mon
| mouth and Glasgow Good Hope and
Monmouth destroyed.
| 4 Turkey: Battles the Russian
Turkish frontier
Naval: German cruiser Yorck sunk
by a British mine in Jade bay, North
| sea loss 266
| g. Turkey: France and Great Britain
| declared war on Turkey
| g. Galicia: Russians recaptured Jaro-
| slaw
| Russia: Cossacks crossed the German
| frontier into Posen.
z. Losses Englands loss in army Off
GERS killed wounded and missing had
| reached a total OF 1883
1 Japan: japanese captured Tsngtao.
/ China. after a siege of 81 days; ter
man loss, 1900 prisoners.
9. Turkey: Turkish troops crossed the
/ frontier into Egypt.
| g. Naval Battle: German cruiser Emden
destroyed at Cocos island. indian
ocean, by British cruiser Sydney
10 Belgium: Germans captured Dtxmude.
II. Belgium: Germans crossed the Ypres
canal, defeating the allies
Naval: German submarine sunk by
French torpedo boat, Westende Bel
gian coast
Ii. Belgium: Germans forced back north
of User canal.
TO- Losses: German official casualty list
535.3S7
Russia: Continuous battle in East Prus-
STA Germans repulsed Russians
around Soldau
1 H. Naval German warships bombarded
Russian port Of Libau. Baltic sea.
| Poland: Germans defeated the Russians
south of Kutno.
| 10. Naval Battle in the Black sea be-
tween Russian feet and the German
Turkish cruisers Goeben and Bresiau.
| 49, France: Germans blew up part OF
French position at Chauvoncourt.
/ q. Aerial Warfare: British aerial squad
ron dropped bombs on Zeppelin fac-
! tory at Friederichshaven.
/ 22 Naval German submarine U-lS sunk
by British warshp off Scotland.
/ g. Naval: German base ct Zeebrugge,
Belgium, shelled by British warships
| 26. Naval: British 1900 ton battIesnp
/ Bulwark sunk by explosion at Sheer
/ ness. England: about 800 lives lost
| Russians around Lodz and Lowicz.
DECEMBER.
Aerial Warfare: Allies airship drop
ped bombs upon the famous Krupp
| gunworks at Essen Germany
Poland: Russians captured Plock. on
the Vistula. in Poland, and repulsed
the Germans at Lodz.
| Servia: Austrians took Belgrade, capt.
| tai of Servia. after siege OF l26 days.
| g. Russia: Germans occupied Lodz. POI
land which Russians abandoned
| Naval. In action off Falkland islands,
In the Atlantic, Sturdee's British
| squadron defeated Specs German
squadron. sinking the cruisers Scharn-
horst. Gneisenau Nurnberg and Leip-
zig
| Aerial Warfare: French airships drop
ped sixteen bombs on German army
aviation camp at Freiberg.
| 10 Naval: Turkish pattIeshp Messuden