The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-31

burg: Germany addresses ultfmatum to
Belgium demanding free passage for her
troops.
Aug. 4.-England sends ultimarum to
Berlin. demanding unqualified observance
Of Belgian neutrality: Germany rejects
ultimatum; German troops begin attack
on Liege: President Wilson issues procla-
nation Of neutrality.
state Of war with Germany; President
Wilson tenders his good offices to the
warning nations.
Aug. 6.-Austria declares war on Russia.
Aug. 7-Germans enter Liege: French
invade southern Alsace
Aug. s.-Italy reaffrms neutrality /.
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. D.-France proclaims n state Of
war with Austria.
Aug. 1s.-Ensiand declares war on Aus
tria.
Aug. 13.-President Carbajal leaves Mex
leo City.
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter servfa; Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany.
Aug. T-British expeditionary force
completes its landing in France: Belgian
OF five days battle In Lorraine. ending
in repulse of French across frontier with
heavy loss: beginning Of five days battle
between servians and Austrians ON the
Jadar ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. N.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
gian army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug. 2s.-Germans begin attack on
Mons: Austria announces victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug. A.-Germans enter Namur: British
begin retreat from Mons: Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
Aug. z5.-Austria declares war on Japan:
Muelhausen evacuated by the French.
Aug. 26.-Non partisan French cabinet
| organized: Germans take Longwy
Aug. 26-British feet sinks five German
| warships OF Heiogoland.
Aug. 2.-Louvain burned by Germans;
Japanese blockade Tsing Tao.
Aug. S.-Germans capture LaFere: Rus
SLAMS defeated in three days battle near
| TannenberH.
Aug. so.-Germans occupy Amiens. :.
September.
Sept 1-st. Petersburg to be known
henceforth as Petrograd by Imperial de-
| cree.
Sept 2.-Germans advance pentrates to
| Creil. about 80 miles from Paris and
swings eastward; French center between
Verdun and Reims driven back: seat of
| French government removed to Bordeaux.
| Sept. 3.-Russians occupy Lemberg.
Sept. 6.-Battle begins south of the
Marne and east of Paris in which the
German right wing is pushed back. fol-
lowed by general retreat
Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
| mans.
I
| dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
lets and civilian excesses by the allies
Sept. R-German retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept. 1s.-Belgian commission protests
| to President Wilson against German
| Atrocities"
Sept. T.-Austrian armies effect juno
tion and hold line of San River against
| Russians.
Sept 0.-Germans lombard Reims and
| in1ure the famous cathedral
Sept. 22-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue in
| the North sea: Russians capture Jaroslav
| and invest Przemysl.
Sept. 3.-British troops from India land
| At Marseilles.
Sept. 2s,-Germans begin siege of Ant
| werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
THAN passes Into Hungary.
Sept. 29.-Germans deliver fierce attacks
around Noyon French press forward
| from Toul and Verdun.
Sept. 1.-German warships lombard
Japanese position before Kiauchau
OCTOBER.
Oct 1.-Heavy fighting near Arras be.
gins.
Oct. END of weeks battle at Angus.
towo in which the Germans are defeated
and forced out of Russian territory.
Oct 3-6.-Russians occupy towns In
Hungary
Oct. 5.-German attacks of LassiGny re-
pulsed: Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 7.-Bombardment of Antwerp be-
gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer. Japanese seize Caroline islands
Oct. s.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp
mans.
Oct. 1o.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazebrouck.
Oct. 11.-German advance in Poland ap-
proaches the Vistula and threatens War
saw: Austrian counter fensive in 0alicia
Oct. ia Boer commander In the Cape
province mutinies and martial law is de-
ciared throughout the South African
Union.
Oct. 13,-Beieian government transferred
from Ostend to Havre.
Oct. H.-Aliies occupy Ypres; battle be-
gins on the Vistula.
Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct. T.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
Oct 1S.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
coast to Lille
Oct. D.-English glinboats participate In
| battle at Nieuport on Belgian coast.
Oct. H.-Ten days' battle before Warsaw
ends in German defeat
| Oct. 26.-After week of furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nieu-
port to Ypres slacken
Oct. N..South African sedtion spreads,
General DeWet in revolt: Russians pur-
| sue retreating Germans and reoccupy
| Lodz and Radon.
| Oct. 2S.-Berlin admits retreat from
Warsaw and IvanRorod: German cruiser
| Emden enters harbor OF Penang and tor
pedoes Russian cruiser and French de-
| stroyer
Oct. 29.-Turkey begins war on Russia
| by naval attacks on Odessa, Novorossysk,
| and Theodosia In the Crimea
| Oct. 3.-Colonel Maritz. rebel leader In
Cape Province. beaten and driven out of
| the colony.
| NOVEMBER.