Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-12-31


and occupied by allies.
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York. ~ sue
Sept IA. = Retreating German army
halted in strongly intrenched position
along the Aisne river. Amiens reoccupied
by the French
Sept 22-Three British cruisers were
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine
In the North sea.
Sept &.-British troops from India
landed at Marseilles
Sept @.-Germans began attack on de-
lenses Of Antwerp
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out OF Russia.
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Oct. 9.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyck. East Prus-
STA.
Oct. lo.-German army Of 5000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht. east OF Client
Oct n.-Germany imposed war fne of
80. 900 900 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Paiiada sunk by German
submarines XII fe
Oct. 12-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans
Oct. Ia.-Belgian government moved to
Havre. France. tpp AZ
Colonel Maritz and his troops in the
northwest Of Cape province. South Africa.
rebelled. Martial law proclaimed through
out Union of South Africa.
Oct. b.-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.-AIlies recaptured Armentieres.
Oct. 1s.-Desperate fighting along Bel
CLAN coast, British warships taking part.
Oct &.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace,
at the point OF the bayonet.
Oct. A.-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct. 2.-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 Falkenhayn. German minister Of
war. made chief Of stan to succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. 2:.De Wet and Beyers Joined in
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon.
Germans retreating.
Oct. 2S.-Prinzip was sentenced to 20
years Imprisonment; four of his accom-
plices sentenced to death and others to
various terms of Imprisonment
Botha reported the rout of the rebel
Beers.
German cruiser Emden torpedoed Rus
sian cruiser and French DESTROYER in Pc
nang harbor.
Oct 29.-Turkey began war on Russia
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa,
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea. eat-
Nov. L-British cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits.
Five German warships engaged four
British warships of 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
vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah
Arabia 500
Germans abandoned left bank Of the
User below Dixmude.
Nov. 5.-France, Great Britain and Rus
STA declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus G 89GG3 q
Nov. 6.--The shelk -ul-Islam ordered q
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
| land.
Nov. Herman fortress Of Using Tao,
China. stormed by Japanese and British
and captured
Nov. s.-Belgian troops penetrated to
Ostend
Ypres set fire by German shells and de-
stroyed.
German cruiser Emden driven ashore
on Cocos islands and destroyed by Aus
tralian cruiser Sydney.
Nov. 1o.-Russian feet In Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov 1l-British gunboat Niger sunk by
a torpedo on Deal.
Russians occupied johannesburg, East
Prussia.
Germans captured Dixmude.
Nov 15.-Germans forced from all posi-
lions on left bank Of the User.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
trance to Red sea.
Nov. 1s.-Floods in West Flanders cut
off large number Of Germans
Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
of warfare.
Nov 1s.-Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four days of bloody fight
ing.
Nov. 22-Ypres bombarded by Germans,
town hall and market place being de-
stroyed.
Nov. 23-Russians won great victory
| pNci 0Sihoho WIN Wcio advancing Oll
Nov. 24.--Germans opened a terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
Bassee.
Naval base of Germans at zeebrugge de-
molished by shells from British fleet.
Nov. 26.-British battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion OFF sheerness.
Nov. 27.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
bardment of Reims.
Two British ships sunk off Havre by
German submarines. and one or Grimsby
by O mine.
Dec. 1-Germans cut their way out OF
the Russian trap in Poland but with great
losses.
General De Wet. Boer rebel leader. cap
tured.
Dec. 2-Germans in Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade. capital of servia. occupied by
the Austrians.
Dec. 6.-Gernans occupied LODI. Rus
sian Poland. after severe bombardment
Dec Z-Germans defeated Russians
north and south of Lodz.
Dec, Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst
Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg. under
Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad
ron under vice-Admiral Sir Frederick
Sturdee off the falkland islands. The
Dresden, badly DANA ged. escaped.
Emperor William ia In Berlin.
General Beyers. rebe, Boer leader. re-
ported dead. =
Turkish forces at Kurna. at head of Per-
sian gulf surrendered to British expedi-
tionary force from India.
Dec. 9-Terrific fighting around Lowicz
Russian Poland.
Dec. 1o.-Allies captured Roulers and
Armentieres.
Austrians in, servia compelled to re-
treat.
Dec. f1.-Russians checked three of the
five German columns advancing on War
saw. fa
Allies repulsed violent attacks of Ger
mans near Ypres.
German submarine attack on Dover re-