The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-01-08
EUROPEAN WAR STANDS FIRST
MexIco's MuddIed Affairs-Pope Plus,
and Earl Roberts Among the u.
Iustrious Dead - Disasters
and sports-FinanciaI and
Industrial Happenings.
COMPILED BY E. W. PIcKARD.
EUROPEAN WAR

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ganatic wife, the duchess of Hohenberg,
shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo,
capital of Bosnia, after a futile attempt
had been made to blow them up with q
bomb.
July 23.-Austria sent peremptory note
to Servia demanding punishment of all
accomplices in murder Of Archduke Fran
cis Ferdinand and suppression OF all So
cieties which had fomented rebellion IN
Bosnia.
July 8.-Troops modified by Austria.
Servia Russia and Montenegro Servtans
moved their capital to Nish.
July 2S-Austria declared war against
Servia.
July 29-Austrians invaded Servia and
shelled Belgrade.
July 81-Kaiser demanded Russian mob
Ilization cease and car refused. Martial
law proclaimed in Germany.
Stock exchanges in nearly all cities or
the world closed.
Aug. 1.-Germany declared war on Rus
STA and modified its army. Car declared
martial law and France issued decree or
mobilization. Italy declared Its neutral
fty.
Aug. 2.-German troops advanced on
France through neutral Luxembourg.
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and Posen.
Aug. 3.-Germans started three armies
toward France, through Belgium, violat-
Ing the neutrality of that country.
French troops crossed German frontier
In Vosges mountains.
Aug. 4.-Great Britain demanded that
Germany withdraw her troops from Bel
gium. Germany and England declared
war on each other and Germany declared
war on Belgium. France declared war on
Germany.
United States proclaimed its neutrality.
Aug. 5.-Germans repulsed at Liege by
Belgians.
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener made
British secretary Of state for war.
President Wilson offered the services OF
the United States as mediator.
Aug. 6.-Austria- Hungary declared war
on Russia.
British cruiser Amphion sunk by Ger
man mine.
Aug. 7.-Germans entered Liege.
Aug 8.-Twenty thousand English troops
landed on French coast. French invaded
Alsace lorraine and captured Altkirch
and Muehlk..!sen.
Italy reaf y..ied its neutrality.
Aug, 10-France broke off diplomatic
relations with Austria Hungary
Aug, 11.-French driven out of Cernay
and Muelhausen.
Aug. 13.-Germans occupied Hasselt,
Tongres and ST. Trond. Belgium. France
and England declared war on Austria.
Aug. 15-Japan issued ultimatum to Ger
many demanding withdrawal of German
warships from the Orient and evacuation
Of Kiauchau.
Aug. IT,. Belgian seat of government
was transferred from Brussels to Ant
werp. 49,.
Beginning Of five days battle in Lor-
raine, ending in repulse Of French across
frontier with heavy loss. Beginning of
five days battle between Servians and
Austrians on the Jadar, ending In Aus
TRAN rout.
Aug. 19-Brussels occupied by the Ger
mans the allies retiring to Antwerp.
Servians defeated $1,000 Austrians at
Shabats, forty miles west of Belgrade.
Aug. 0.-French recaptu4ed Muelhausen,
Alsace. but were driven back in Lorraine.
Aug. H.-Germans began bombardment
of Namur forts and levied war tax of
$40, 900, 900 on Brussels and $10,0O0,000 on
Liege.
Aug. 22.-Germans occupied Client and
Bruges
Aug. 2s.-Japan declared war on Ger
many
Luneville, France, occupied by the Ger
mans,
Russians drove back the Germans from
the eastern frontier.
Aug, rA.-The allied armies along the
line from Mons to the Moselle defeated
and driven back by the Germans
Germans captured Namur. drove the
French out Of Alsace and advanced from
Lorraine into France.
Japanese warships began bombardment
Of Using Tao. fortified seaport Of Kiau-
chau.
Aug. a.-Austria declared war on ia
pan. .iz,f a
Germans levied a war tax Of 500, 900
on the Belgian province of Brabant.
Aug. 26.-French cabinet resigned and
new cabinet formed by Premier Viviani.
Russians took Marienburg. German is
land of zap near Guam seized by Japa-
nese. Austrian defeated Russians on Cali
clan frontier Louvain sacked and burned
by Germans. .-.e
Aug. H.-British cruiser Highf1yer de-
stroyed German armed merchant cruiser
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse off west coast
of Africa.
Aug. 2S.-British fleet sunk five German
warships off Helgoland.
Allies checked the march or Germans TO
Paris and terrific battle was begun at
Arras and one near Nancy.
Austria declared war on Belgium.
Aug. 29-British forces from New Zea-
land seized Apia, chief town Of German
Samoa
Russians defeated near Tannenberg.
Aug. 3O.-Germans occupied Amiens.
Sept 2.-Seat of French government
moved to Bordeaux.
Russians captured Lemberg, Austria,
after seven days battle.
Sept. 5.-Germans captured Reims.
Sept 6.-British cruiser Pathfinder sunk
by torpedo in North sea.
Sept 7-Allies victorious in battle
along the line from Nanteuil to Verdun.
the imperial guard under the German
crown prince being nearly annihilated by
the British.
Germans destroyed Dinant and captured
Maubeuge.
Sept. 8-Allies pushed back the entire
line Of invading Germans,
Sept 9.-British forced Germans to re-
treat along the river Marine.
Sept. 11.-Russians drove the Germans
from several fortified positions in Russian
Poland, but repulsed with heavy losses in
Hast Prussia. U %aE
Sept. R-British warships from Aus