Evening star., 1915-01-03

assassinated.
July 2s-Austria sends an uitimatum
to Servia.
sAusust 1-Germany declares war on
Russia. French cabinet orders general
mobilization.
August German forces enter Lux
emburg. Germany addresses ultima
tum to Belgium, demanding free pass
age for her troops.
August 4-England sends ultimatum
to Berlin. demanding unqualified oo-
servance of Belgian neutrality Ger
many rejects ultimatum- German troops
begin attack on Liege. President VIII
son issues proclamation of neutrality.
August 5-England announces exist
ence of state of war with Germany.
President Wilson tenders his good Of
fees to the warning nations.
August 7-GermanS enter LleSe.
French invade southern Alsace.
August S-Italy reaffrms neutrality
August 15-Austrians enter Servia
Japan sends ultimatum to Germany. fa;r,
force completes its landing in France
beginning of a five-day battle IN Lor-
Iaine. ending in repulse of French
ACROSS frontier with heavy loss. Be
ginning of tive-day battle between Ser
yians and Austrians on the Jadar, end
ing in Austrian rout.
August 20-Germans enter Brussels
Belgian army retreats on Antwerp.
August 23-Germans enter Namur and
begin attack on Mons. Austria an
reunces victory over Russians at
= August 24-British began retreat
m Mons. Zeppelin drops bombs into
<l.twerp.
August 25-Mulhausen evacuated by
the French.
August 26-Non- partisan French cabi-
net organized Germans take Longwy.
August 27-Louvain burned by Ger
mans. Japanese blockade Tsingtau.
August 2S-British fleet sinks five
German warships off Helgoland.
August 20 Russians defeated in
three-day battle near Tannenberg.
September Herman advance pene-
trates to Creil, about thirty miles from
Paris, and swings eastward. French
center Between Verdun and Rheims
driven back. Seat of French govern
nlent removed to Bordeaux.
September 3-RuSSianS OCCUPY Lem
berg.
September Battle begins south of
the Marine and east of Paris, in which
the German right wing is pushed back,
followed by general retreat.
September 7-Maubeuge taken by
the Germans
September 12-German retreat halts
on the AiSne.
September 16-Belgian commission
protests to President Wilson against
German atrocities"
september 2O-Germans lombard
Rheims and injure the famous cathe-
dral.
september 22-German submarine
sinks British cruisers Aboukir. Cressy
and Hogue in the North sea- Russians
capture Jaroslav and invest Przemysl.
September 26-British troops from
India land at Marseille
September 2s-Germans begin siege
of Antwerp.
October END of weeks battle at
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defeated and forced out of Russian
territory.
october 5-Belgian government re-
moved from Antwerp to ostend.
october 7-Bombardment of Antwerp
begins. Japanese seize Caroline Is
lands.
October 9-Antwerp occupied by the
gagemept around Hazebrouck.
October ia Boer commando in the
Capt province mutinies.
October 13-Belgian government
transferred from Ostend to Havre.
tie begins on the vistula.
October 15-Ostend occupied by the
sunk by German submarine.
october 1s-Belgian army effects
junction with allied left. battle on
from channel coast to Lille.
CctoDer SV-EnSi1Sn SUnboatS par
tnipate in battle at Nfeuport on Bel
Sian coast.
October 24-Ten-day battle before
Warsaw ends in German defeat.
October 26-After a week of furious
fighting German assaults on allied line
from Nieuport to Ypres slacken
october 27-South African sedition
spreads, Gen. De Wet in revolt Rus
slams pursue retreating Germans and
reoccupy Lodz and Radon.
October 2s-Berlin admits retreat
from Warsaw and Ivangorod.
October 29-Turkey begins war on
Russia by naval attacks on Odessa
Novorossysk and Theodosia in the
Crimea.
october 3o-Col Maritz. rebel leader
out of the colony
November IA squadron of five Ger
man cruisers, including the Gneisenau and
Scharnhorst. defeat a British squadron off
Coronel. on the coast of Chile Turks
lombard Sebastopoi
November 3-German SQUADRON makes
a raid to British coast near Yarmouth
November 4-German cruiser Yorck
strikes mine in Jade bay and sinks.
Heavy fighting around Ypres.
November England and France de-
clare war on Turkey. Dardanelles forts
bonlbarded- Russians reoccupy Jaroslay
November 6-Tsingtau surrenders to
the Japanese
November Russians reach Pleschen
IN Silesia and enter East Prussia
November 19-Emden defeated and
forced ashore at North Keeling Island, in