Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-01-20

S'eoincr heu cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York.
Sept. II. - Retreati1g German army
halted i'm strongly intrenched position
along the Aisne river Amiens reoccupied
by the French
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine
in the North sea
Sept e6-British troops from Ind.
landed at Marseilles
sept. S-Germans began attack on de-
lenses or Antwerp
Oct c.-Germans defeated at AuK,is,owo
AID forced out OF Russia
oct 5.-Belsian government moved 10
Ostend.
Oct s.-Germans entered Antwerp.
RUSSIAN army occupied Lyck. East Prus-
sia.
Oct. 1o-German army Of Il 600 was re-
pulsed at Ouatrecht. east OF Client
oct n--Germany imposed war fine o.
ioo.ooo.ooo on Antwerp
Russian cruiser P,lll9da sunk by German
submarines
Oct l2-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans
Oct 13-Belgian government moved TO
Havre. France
Colonel Marltz and his troops In the
northwest OF Cape province. South Africa,
re ,. I Martial law proclaimed through
out Union OF South Africa.
Oct 15.-Germans occupied Ostend and
Bruges
Oct 1s.-Br;ish cruiser Hawke sunk in
the North sea by German submarine
Oct i.-Japanese cruiser Takachiho
sunk hv torredo In Kiauchau bay.
British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North son.
Oct E-Allies recaptured Armentlere.
OCT. l9-Desperate lighting along Bel
gan coast. British warshiDs taking part
Oct. %.-French rctook Altkirch. Alsace.
at the point of the bayonet
Oct. 4-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat
Oct. 25.-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south
Oct. 26.-Germans bomba rded Nieuport
but were checked by allies
Mnritz and his rebel force defeated by
Union OF South Africa troops
Prinzip. slayer OF Archdukc Francis
Ferdinand and his wife and q others
found guilty Of treason.
Won Falkenhayn. German minister OF
war, made chief OF STAFF To succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. $-De Wet and Bcyers TONED in
South Africa revolt
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk 10y
mine
Russians reoccuplrd Lodz and Radon
Germans ret-eatinE
Oct. 2s.-Prinzip was Sentenced to 9n
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 Fmden torpedoed Rus
sian cruiser and French destroyer In Pc
nang harbOr.
Oct. 2s.-TurlSey began war on Russia.
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea
NOV. british cruiser TIermes sunk by
German submarine In Dover straits.
Five German warships Engaged four
British warships on the coast OF Chile
and sank two ana disabled a third; the
fourth escaped
Nov 3-British and French feet 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
sia declared war on Turkey Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus
Nov. 6.-The sheik- ul-Islam ordered
holy war against Russia. France and Eng
land.
Nov. Herman fortress Of Using tho
China. stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov e.-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. 10.-Russian fleet In Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov 1l-British gunboat Niger sunk by
n torpedo or Deal
Russians occupied Johannesburg. East
| Prussia
Germans captured DIKmude
Nov l5.-Germans forced from all posi-
tons on left bank OF the User.
British DESTROYED Turkish fort at en-
trance to Red sea.
Nov. 16.-Floods in West Flanders c,,t
on large number OF Germans
Pop" issued encyclical urging cessation
OF warfare
Nov. H.-Russians checked by Germans
~ soidau after four days Of bloody H@ht-
Nov. 22-Ypres bombarded by Germans
town hail and market place being dc
stroyed
Nov p Russians won great victor
over Germans who were advancing on
Nov. 2i-Germans opened terrific AZ.
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
Bassee
Naval base OK Germans a Zeobrugge de-
molished bv shells from British fleet
NOV. @.--Brltish battlcship rulwark de-
stroved by explosion or Sheeruess
Nov. 27.-Ccrmans renewed fierce horn
b1rdmcnt OF Reins
Two British ships sunk or Hav-. ~
German submarines. and one oN Crirnyby
by n mine.
Dec. 1-Gcrmans cut their way oil, n,
the Russian trap IN Poland but with ereo.
losses
General De Wet. Boer rebel leader. 0l5-
turcd
Dec. 2-Germans IN Poland resumed tie.
Offensive.
peI0rade carttst 81 cor,.t. ,-,..,.-t., .
tho Austrians
Dec. 6--Germans occupied LODI gus.
sian Poland after severe bomhardrner,.
Dec 7-GcrDane defeated Russians
north and south Of LODI
Dec. Sherman cruisers Scharnhors.
Gnciscnau. Leipzig and Nuremberg under
Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad
ron under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick
Sturdee or the Falkland islands. The
Dresden. badly damaged. escaped