Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-01-08

Sept 13.-Lille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by allies.
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York.
Sept. IA. - Retreating German army
halted in strongly intrenched position
along the Aisne river. Amiens reoccupied
by the French.
Sept. 22.-Three British cruisers were
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine
In the North sea-
Sept. 26.-British troops from India
landed at Marseilles.
Sept. 29.-Germans began attack on de-
lenses of Antwerp
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct 6.-Belgian government moved to
Ostend.
Oct. 9.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyck, East Prus-
STA.
Oct. 1o-German army of 10000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht, east of Client
Oct. n.=Germany imposed war fine of
Sl60OO0,0 600 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,
rebelled. Martial law proclaimed through
out Union of South Africa
Oct. 15.-Germans occupied Ostend and
| Bruges.
Oct. 16-British cruiser Hawke sunk in
the North sea by German submarine.
! Oct. T.-Japanese cruiser Takachiho
| sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
| stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North sea-
Oct. 1S.-Allies recaptured Armentieres.
Oct. 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast, British warships taking part.
Oct. 2S.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace,
at the point of the bayonet
Oct. 2.-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct. 2.-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the SOUTH
Oct. 26.-Germans bombarded Newport
but were checked by allies.
Maritz and his rebel force defeated by
Union of South Africa troops.
Prinzip, slayer of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife, and % others
found guilty Of treason.
| Won Falkenhayn, German minister of
war, made chief of staff to succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. 2S.-De Wet and Beyers Joined in
South Africa revolt.
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon,
Germans retreating.
| Oct. 28.-Prinzip was sentenced to 20
years Imprisonment; four of his accom-
pllces 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. british cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits.
| Five German warships engaged four
British warships off the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; the
fourth escaped.
| Nov. 3.-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
slaughtered war ON Turkey. Great Brit
| ain annexed cyprus.
Nov. 6.-The sheik- ul-Islam ordered a
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
land.
Nov. Herman fortress of Using Tao,
China, stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov. s.-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. n.-British gunboat Niger sunk by
a torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg, East
Prussia.
Germans captured Dixmude.
Nov. 15.-Germans forced from all posi-
| lions on left bank of the User.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
| trance to Red sea-
| Nov. 16.-Floods in West Flanders cut
Off large number of Germans.
Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
Of warfare
| Nov. 1S.-Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four days of bloody fight
| ing.
| Nov. 22.-Ypres bombarded by Germans,
town hall and market place being de-
| stroyed.
| Nov. 23.-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
| Warsaw.
Nov. A.-Germans opened terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
| Bassee.
| Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge de-
molished by shells from British fleet.
| Nov. 26.-British battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion off Sheerness.
| Nov. N.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
| bardment of Reims.
| Two British ships sunk off Havre by
! German submarines, and one off Grmsby
| 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. 2.-Germans in Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade, capital of Servia, occupied by
the Austrians.
Dec. 6.-Germans occupied LODI, Rus
sian Poland, after severe bombardment.
Dec. 7.-Germans defeated Russians
north and south Of LODI.
Dec. Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst.
Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nuremberg. under