The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-01-02

and occupied by allies
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York
Sept IL Retreating German army
halted in strongly intrenched position
along the Aisne river. Am,ens reoccupied
by the French
Sept G.-Three British cruisers were
In the North sea
Sept @-British troops from India
landed at Marseilles.
Sept s.-Germans began attack on do
fenses Of Antwerp
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out OF Russia
Oct. 6.-Belg1an government moved 70
Ostend-
Oct s-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyck, East Prus-
sia-
Oct Alderman army Of q. 900 was ~
pulsed at Quatrecht. east Of Ghent
Oct. u.-Germany imposed war hne OF
500 900 900 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines
Oct, 12-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 13-Belgian government moved to
Havre. France.
Colonel Maritz and his troops In the
northwest of Cape province. South Africa.
rebeiled. Martial law proclaimed through
out Union OF 5outH ALIicd-
Oct. 5.-Germans occupied Ostend and
Bruges.
Oct. ls.-British cruiser Hawke sunk In
the North sea by German submarine.
Oct. 17.-Japanese cruiser Takach!ho
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. 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast, British warships taking part
Oct. Y.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace.
at the point OF the bayonet.
Oct. 4.-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct. 3-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south.
Oct. 2s.-Germans bombarded Nieuport
but were checked by allies
Martz and his rebel force defeated by
Union OF South Africa troops.
Prinzip. slayer of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife. and Q others
found guilty of treason.
Won Falkenhayn, German minister of
war. made chief OF stan to succeed Won
Moltke.
Oct. 2s-De Wet and Beyers Joined In
South Africa revolt.
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Russians reoccuped Lodz 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.
| Nov I-British cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits.
| Five German warships engaged four
| British warshps OF the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third the
| fourth escaped.
Nov s-British and French fleet bonn
| barded the Dardanelles forts. and British
vessels destroyed the barracks OF Akabah.
| Arabia
Germans abandoned left bank Of the
User below Dixmude.
| Nov. 5.-France. Great Britain and Rus
| sla declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus.
Nov. S.-The sheik- Islam ordered .
| holy war against Russia, France and Eng
land.
Nov. 7.-German fortress Of Using Tao.
China. stormed by Japanese and British
| and captured.
Nov. 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. ll-British Eunboat Niger sunk BY
! a torpedo of Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg East
! Prussia.
| cermans caotured DISnude
| Nov. 15.-Germans forced from all POSI-
| tons on left bank Of the User.
| British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
| trance TO Red sea.
Nov. lS.-Eloods In West Flanders cut
| on large number OF Germans
| Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
| of warfare.
| Nov. N-Russians checked by Germans
| at Soldau after four days Of bloody fight
| ing.
| Nov c2-Ypres bombarded by Germans,
town hall and market place being de-
| stroyed.
Nov 2.-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
| Warsaw.
| Nov. o4-Germans opened a terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
| Bassee.
| Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugse de-
molished by shells from British fleet
Nov. 2s.-BritIsh battleship Bulwark de-
| stroyed by explosion OFF Sheerness
Nov. 2.--Germans renewed fierce bonn
| bardmcnt of Rems.
| Two British ships sunk off Havre by
| German submarines. and one off Grtmsby
by 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. o-Germans in Poland resumed the
| offensive.
| Belgrade. capital OF Servia, occupied by
| the Austrians.
| Dec. s.--Germans occupied LODI Rus
| sian Poland. after severe bombardment
| Dec 7.-Germans defeated Russians
| north and south of Lodz.
| Dec. s.--German cruisers Scharnhorst
| Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg, under
| Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad
| WON under Vice Ere1arIcG