The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-02

of Belgian neutrality; Germany rejects
| ultimatum; German troops begin attack
on Liege; President Wilson issues procla-
nation of neutrality
Aug. 5.-England announces existence OF
state of war with Germany; President
| Wilson tenders his good offices TO the
warning nations.
| Aug. 6-Austrla declares war on Russia.
Aug. 7.-Germans enter Liege; French
| invade southern Alsace
Aug. S.-Italy reaffirms neutrality;
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. 10.-France proclaims state OF
war with Austria.
Aug 1s.-England declares war on Aus
| tria.
Aug. is.-President Carbajal leaves Mex
| leo City.
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter Servla; Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany.
| Aug. H.-British expeditionary force
completes Its landing in France; Belgian
capital removed from Brussels; beginning
| of a five days battle in Lorraine, ending
in repulse of French across frontier with
heavy loss; beginning of five days battle
between Servians and Austrians on the
Jadar, ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. 20.-Germans enter Brussels: Bel
CLAN army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug. 2s.-Germans begin attack on
Mons Austria announces victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug. 2-Germans enter Namur; British
begin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
Aug. 25.-Austria declares war on Japan;
Muelhausen evacuated by the French.
Aug. 26.-Non-partlsan French cabinet
organized; Germans take Longwy
Aug. 26-British fleet sinks five German
warships OFF Helogoland.
Aug. H-Louvain burned by Germans
Japanese blockade Using Tao
Aug. 29.-Germans capture LaFere: Rus
slams defeated in three days battle near
Tannenberg.
Aug. O.-Germans occupy Amiens
SEPTEMBER.
Sept. 1-St. Petersburg to be known
henceforth as Petrograd by Imperial de-
cree
Sept. 2.-Germans advance pentrates to
Creil, about 30 miles from Paris and
swings eastward; French center between
Nerdun and Reims driven back; seat of
French government removed to Bordeaux.
Sept. 3.-Russians occupy Lemberg
Sept. 5.-Battle begins south of the
Marine and east of Paris in which the
German right wing is pushed back, fol-
lowed by general retreat
Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 10-rhe kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
let's and civilian eXcesses by the allies
Sept. R-German retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept. 16.-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities"
Sept. 17.-Austrian armies effect juno
ton and hold line of San River against
Russians.
Sept. 20.-Germans lombard Reims and
in1ure the famous cathedral
sept. R.-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue in
the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav
and invest Przemysl.
Sept. 5.-British troops from India land
at Marseilles
Sept. 8.-Germans begin siege of Ant
werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
THAN passes into Hungary.
Sept. 29.-Germans deliver fierce attacks
| around Noyon; French press forward
| from Toul and Verdun.
Sept 30.-German warships lombard
japanese position before Kiauchau.
OCTOBER.
Oct. 1-Heavy fighting near Arras be-
gins.
Oct. 2.-End of weeks battle at Angus
| towo in which the Germans are defeated
| and forced out of Russian territory
Oct. 3-e.-Russians occupy towns in
| Hungary.
Oct. 5.-German attacks of Lassigny re-
pulsed Belgian government removed
| from Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 7.-Bombardment of Antwerp be-
| gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer; Japanese seize Caroline islands.
| Oct. S-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. s.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
| mans.
Oct. 10.--French win cavalry engagement
| around Hazebrouck
4 Oct. H.-German advance in Poland ap-
| proaches the Vlstula and threatens War
| saw: Austrian counter offensive in Gaiicin
nas A D..
province mutinies and martial law is de-
clared throughout the South African
Union.
Oct. 1s.-Belglan government transferred
from Ostend to Havre.
Oct. H.-Allies occupy Ypres: battle be-
gins on the Vistula.
Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk BY
German submarine.
Oct T.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
sunk by torpedo In Riauchau bay.
| Oct S.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
coast to Lille
oct. @.-English gunboats participate In
battle at Nieuport on Belgian coast.
Oct A.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
ends In German defeat
Oct 26.--After a week of furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nieu-
port to Ypres slaclSen
Oct. T.-South African sedition spreads
General DeWet In revolt; Russians pur-
sue Tetreating Germans and reoccupy
Lodz and Radon.
Oct. 2S.-Berlin admits retreat from
Warsaw and Ivangorod: German cruiser
Emden enters harbor of Penang and tor
pedoes Russian cruiser and French de-
stroyer.
Oct. 9.--Turkey begins war on Russia
by naval attacks on Odessa, Novorossysle
and Theodosia in the Crlmea
Oct. @.-Colonel Maritz. rebel leader In
Cape Province. beaten and driven out OF
the colony.
NOVEMBER.
Nov. IA squadron OF five German
cruisers, including the Gneisenau and
Scharnhorst, defeated British squadron
| OF Coronel. on the coast of Chile; Turks
lombard Sebastopol