Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-08-18
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THE GREAT WAR :
BRIEF REVIEW
Naval and Miscellaneous Actions,
Air Raids and Grave Dip
lOmatic Incidents Id
yOlying This
Country.

tie of Newport, ON Belgian coast, en-
gaging the German batteries on land.
"a. Heavy fighting on the Belgian coast;
the Germans crossed the User Ypres
canal, near Newport.
2G In battle on the coast of Belgium Ger
man siege guns drove back. British
warships in the English channel.
30. Be1gians flooded the German camps on
the river User, in Belgium, by cutting
the bikes and forced the German troops
to withdraw.
NOVEMBER, 1914.
z. The kaiser's troops made a series of
attacks from their lines at Arras and
in the Vosges and Argonne forests,
southeastern France
u. Germans crossed the Ypres canal Bel
GUM, at two points after defeating the
allies.
Is. French and Belgian troops repulsed
Germans on the User and reeained lost
ground. -
1917. German long range guns bonbaDded
Rheims the second time.
DECEMBER, 1914
z. German outpost in front of La Bassee,
France, captured by the allies
1918. French and Belgian troops advanc-
ed on the User and at Ypres, forcing
Germans back toward Ostend.
q. Fierce artillery battle along the entire
front in southeastern France French
air scouts located German targets for
allied guns.
French were advancing in Alsace and
firmly held the Vosges passes.
81. French captured important ground at
Steinbach, in Alsace.
JANUARY, 1916.
T. French troops recaptured Steinbach, in
Alsace.
8. Germans attacked by the allies at
Scissors, France.
ii. Flood on the Aisne prevented the al
lies from reinforcing their line north
of the river.
| IA. Allies withdrew south of the Aisne,
losing 5000 prisoners and many guns.
| 10. Heavy fighting at ArraS, in Belgium
and Alsace. Germans captured trenches
from the French at St. Mihiel.
@ Allies captured La Bassee, in France.
German aviators dropped bombs at
| Dunkirk.
! FEBRUARY, 1915.
H-22 Germans threw 1000 shells into city
| of Rheims.
| MARCH, 1915.
| 10. Beginning Of British attacks on Ger
| man line at Neuve Chapelle, France.
The village captured.
| LIB French attacks and German coun-
ter attacks continued at Neuve Cha
pelle, with heavy losses on both sides.
| q. French troops captured the German
, position on HartmannSweilerkopf, in
Alsace.
APRIL, 1915
10. French occupied Les Eparges. Ger
mans boTnbarded Rheims
12 German attack at Les EpargeS re-
pulsed with heavy loss.
%. Germans captured the heights Of Les
Eparges on the Mouse line and recap
.tured Hartmannsweilerkopf in the
Vosges mountains. They repulsed an
attack by allies along the Ypres canal
with asphyXiating gas and crossed
that barrier to the west side.
! "a. Fighting continued at Ypres, both
sides gaining ground at separate
! points.
q. French recaptured Hartmannsweiler
| - :kOpf, in Alsace.
80. German artillery at Newport, Belgium
| bombarded DunkirI1, on the French
channel coast, infiicting casualties, a
% mile range.
MAY, 1915.
8. Germans captured important positions
in Flanders, including Hill No. 60
where British defenders were over
come by gas.
JUNE, 1915.
1. British army casualties to date il
France and Belgium 258, 069, including
50,342 killed.
! II. French troops, with heavy artiller!
support, gained ground north Of Arra
in France. They also advanced OF
Alsace.
10. French forces made gains around Ar
ras where there was a fierce battl
over a point known as the Labyrinth.
q. French troops occupied the Labyrinth
JULY, 1915.
g. Germans forced the French line bacl
in Alsace.
Is. Souchez cemetery and trenches nea
Arras, France, captured by Germans.
Is. Germans captured a mile Of Frencl
trenches in the Argonne.
"a In the Argonne the French repulse
German attacks and gained ground
Is. French reports stated that there wa
violent cannonade in LIE Pretre fol-
est, German bombardment Of Point-a
a Mousson and also Of Hartrnannsweil
j erkopf, in Alsace- French aviator
Z dropped shells and steel arrows on
German military railroad station nea
Montfaucon, France.