The Green Forest tribune., 1915-01-01

Aug. 4.-England sends ultimatum to Berlin, demanding unqualified observance or 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.-Austria declares war on Russia. Aug. 7.-Germans enter Liege; French invade southern Alsace
 Aug. S.-Italy reaffirms neutrality; French occupy Muelhausen.
 Aug. N.-France proclaims state of war with Austria
 Aug. 13.-England declares war on Aus tria.
 Aug. 13.-President CarbaJal leaves Mex ico City.
 Aug. 15.-Austrians enter servia; Japan sends ultimatum to Germany.
 Aug. T7.-British expeditionary force completes its landing in France; Belgian capital removed from Brussels; beginning of 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 g1an army retreats on Antwerp
 Aug. 23.-Germans begin attack on Mons; Austria announces victory over Russians at Krasnk.
 Aug. A.-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-partisan French cabinet organized; Germans take Longwy
 Aug. 26.-British fleet sinks five German warships off Helogoland
 Aug. 2I-Louvain burned by Germans; Japanese blockade Tsing Tao.
 Aug. 29.-Germans capture LaFere; Rus sians defeated in three days battle near Tannenberg
 Aug. 3o-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 Verdun and Reims driven back; seat of French government removed to Bordeaux
 Sept. 3.-Russians occupy Lemberg.
 Sept. 5.-Battle begins south of the Marne and east of Paris in which the German right wing is pushed back, fol- lowed by a general retreat.
 Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger mans.
 Sept. 1o-The kaiser protests to Presi- dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull lets 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. T.-Austrian armies effect juno ton and hold line of San River against Russians. Sept. 20.-Germans lombard Reims and injure the famous cathedral Sept. 22.-German submarine sinks Brit 1sh cruisers Aboukir, Greasy and Hogue in the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslay and invest Przemysl Sept. &.-British troops from India land at Marseilles.
 Sept. 28.-Germans begin siege of Ant werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa- thian passes into Hungary
 Sept. 29.-Germans deliver fierce attacks around Noyon; French press forward from Foul and Verdun Sept. 3O.-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. 3-5.-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. 8.-Zeppelins Lombard Antwerp Oct. 9.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger mans.
 Oct. 10.-French win cavalry engagement around Hazebrouck. Oct. 11.-German advance in Poland ap- breaches the Vistula and threatens War saw; Austrian counter offensive in Galicia. Oct. 12.-A Boer commander in the Cape province mutinies and martial law is de- clared throughout the South African Union.
 Oct. 13.-Be1gian 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. H.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
 Oct. 1S.-Belgian army effects junction with allied left, battle on from Channel coast to Lille.
 Oct. 20.-English gunboats participate in battle at Nieuport on Belgian coast
 Oct. A-Ten days battle before Warsaw ends in German defeat
 Oct. 26.-After week of furious fighting German assaults on allied line from Nieu- port to Ypres slacken.
 Oct. H.-South African sedition spreads, General DeWet in revolt; Russians pur- sue retreating Germans and reoccupy Lodz and Radon.
 Oct. B.-Berlin admits retreat from Warsaw and Ivangorod; German cruiser Emden enters harbor of Penang and tor pedoes Russian cruiser and French de- stroyer
 Oct. 29.-Turkey begins war on Russia by naval attacks on Odessa Novorossysk, and Theodosia in the Crimea.
 Oct. 30.-Colonel Maritz, rebel leader in Cape Province, beaten and driven out of the colony.
 NOVEMBER.
 Nov. LA squadron of five German cruisers including the Gneisenau and