The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-01-01

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Berlin, demanding unqualified observance
OF Belgian neutrality; Germany rejects
uitlmatum: German troops begin attack
Llege; President Wilson issues procla-
nation of neutrality.
Aug. 5.-England announces existence of
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 reaffirms neutrality:
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. l0.-France proclaims a state Of
war with Austria.
Aug. 13.-England declares war on Aus
tria.
Aug. 13-President Carbajal leaves Mex
leo City.
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter Servia: Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany.
Aug 1T.-British expeditionary force
completes its landing in France: Belgian
capital emoved from Brussels; beginning
OF a 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. M.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
gian army retreats IN Antwerp.
Aug. 23.-Germans begin attack on
Mons; Austria announces victory over
Russians at krasnik.
Aug 4-Germans enter Namur: British
begin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
AUG. Aust declares war on Japan:
Muell1ausen evacuated by the French.
Aug. 26.-Non-partisan French cabinet
organized; Germans take LonCwy.
Aug. 26.-British fleet sinks five German
warships off Helogoland.
Aug, 2.-Louvain burned by Germans;
japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug. @-Germans capture LaFere; Rus
slams defeated In three days battle near
Tannenherg.
Aug. G.-Germans occupy Amiens.
SEPTEMBER.
Sept. 1.-St. Petersburg % be known
henceforth as P~etrograd by Imperial de-
cree.
Sept. 2.-Germans advance pentrates to
Crell, 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. 5.-Battle begins south of the
Marine and east of Paris in which the
German right wing is pushed back, fol-
lowed by a general retreat.
Sept. 1.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 1o.-The kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
let's and civilian excuses by the allies.
Sept. 12.-German retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept 16.-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities"
Sept. T-Austrian armies effect juno
ton and hold line Of San River against
Russians.
Sept. W.-Germans lombard Reims and
lnJure the famous cathedral.
Sept. @.-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Horue in
the North sea Russians capture Jaroslav
and invest Przemysl.
Sept. 8.-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 o and Verdun.
Sept 3.-German warships bomhard
japanese position before kiauchau.
OCTOBER.
Oct. l-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 35.-Russians occupy towns in
Hungary.
Oct. German attacks of Lassigny re-
pulsed; Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 1.-~Bombardment OF Antwerp be-
gins. British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer: japanese seize Caroline islands.
Oct. S.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. 9.--Antwerp occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 10.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazehronck.
Oct. 11.-German advance in Poland an
p~roaches the Vistula and threatens War
saw, Austrian counter-offensive in Galicia.
Oct. PA Boer commander In the Cape
province mu6nies and martial law is de-
clared throughout the South African
Union.
Oct. 13.-Relgian government transferred
from 0stend to Havre.
Oct. 4.-Allies occupy Ypres; battle be-
gins on the Nistula.
Oct. l5.-Ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct. 11.-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. M.-English g~unboats participate in
battle at Newport on Belgian coast.
Oct. 2.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
ends in German defeat
Oct. 26.-After a week Of furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nieu-
port to Ypres slacken.
Oct. 27.-South African sedition spreads,
DeWet In revolt; Russians pur-
sue %retreating Germans and reoccupy
Lodz and Radon.
Oct. 2S.-Berlin admits retreat from
Warsaw and 1vangorod: German cruiser
Emden enters harbor of Penang and tor
pedoes Russian cruiser and French de-
ktroyer.
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.
Nov. IA squadron OF five German
including the Gneisenau and
defeated a British squadron
on Coronel. on the coast OF Chile; Turks
lombard Sebastopol.
Nov. SHERMAN squadron makes q raid
to British coast near Yarmouth.
Nov. 3.-Republican landslide in limited