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


capital of Bosnia, after futile attempt
had been made to blow them up with
bomb.
July 23-Austria sent peremptory note
to Servia demanding punishment of all
accomplices in murder Of Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand and suppression OF all so
cieties which had fomented rebellion in
Bosnia.
July 26-Troops modified by Austria,
Servia Russia and Montenegro. Servians
moved their capital to Nish.
July 2S-Austria declared war against
Eervia.
July 29.-Austrians invaded Servia and
shelled Belgrade.
July S1.-Kaiser demanded Russian mob
flization cease and car refused. Martial
law proclaimed In Germany.
Stock exchanges in nearly all cities Of
the world closed.
Aug 1-Germany declared war on Rus
sia and modified its army. Car declared
martial law and France issued decree of
mobilization. Italy declared its neutral
tty.
Aug. 2.-German troops advanced on
Trance through neutral Luxembourg.
Russia began invasion of East Prussia
and Posen.
Aug 8-Germans started three armies
toward France, through Belgium, violat-
tuR I16 neutrality OIL lIldl COuhllys
French troops crossed German frontier
in Vosges mountains.
Aug 4.-Great Britain demanded that
Germany withdraw her troops from Bel
GUM. 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 S.-Twenty thousand English troops
landed on French coast. French invaded
Alsace-Lorraine and captured Altkirch
and Muehlhausen.
italy reaff1rmed Its neutrality.
Auak Torrance Aoke off diplomatic
relatSks with Austria-Hungary.
Aug. '1f.-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. 1D-Jdpan issued ulIlIldluT1 TO deT-
many demanding withdrawal of German
warships from the Orient and evacuation
Of Kiauchau.
Aug 17.-Belgan seat of government
was transferred from Brussels to Ant
werp.
Beginning of five days battle in Lor-
raine, ending in repulse of French across
frontier with heavy loss. Beginning of
Ave 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 $4,000 Austrians at
Shabats, forty miles west of Belgrade.
Aug. 20.-French recaptured Muelhausen,
Alsace, but were driven back in Lorraine.
Aug. H.-Germans began bombardment
of Namur forts and levied war tax of
t40000,000 on Brussels and s100OO,000 on
Lege.
Aug. 22.-Germans occupied Client and
Bruges.
Aug. @,-Japan declared war on Ger
many.
Luneville France occupied by the Ger
mans
Russians drove back the Germans from
the eastern frontier.
Aug 4.-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 %.-Austria declared war on ia
pan.
Germans levied a war tax Of sso,ooo, 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 Gall
clan frontier. Louvain sacked and burned
by Germans.
Aug. T.-British cruiser Hghf1yer de-
stroyed German armed merchant cruiser
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse off west coast
of Africa.
Aug. 2S.-Britsh feet sunk five German
warships off Helgoland.
Allies checked the march of Germans to
Paris and terrific battle was begun at
krras and one near Nancy.
Austria declared war on Belgium,
Aug 9.-British forces from New Zea-
land seized Apia, chief town of German
Samoa.
Russians defeated near Tannenberg
Aug. s0.-Germans occupied Amens
Sept z-oeHt OF tTencn government
moved TO Bordeaux.
Russians captured Lemberg. Austria,
after seven days battle.
Sept. 6.-Germans captured Reims.
Sept. 6.-Bftsh cruiser Pathfinder sunk
by torpedo in North sea.
Sept. 7.-Alies victorious in a 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. S--Allies pushed back the entire
line of invading Germans.
Sept 9.-British forced Germans to re-
treat along the river Marine.
Sept. n-Russians drove the Germans
from several fortified positions in Russian
Poland, but repulsed with heavy losses in
East Prussia
Sept H.-Britsh warships from AUS
tralia took Herbertshoehe. seat Of govern