The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-01

and occupied Dy aii1eS.
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York.
Sept. H. - 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 or 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 fisherman army Of 10000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht. east of Client.
Oct 11.-Germany imposed war fine OF
500, 10000 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines
Oct. 12-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 1s-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. T7.-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-AIlies recaptured Armentieres.
Oct. 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast British warships taking part.
Oct. 2S.-F'rench retook Altkirch, Alsace.
at the point of the bayonet.
Oct. H.-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct. 25-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 Grea0nauSht AudaclouS SUNK py
mine
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon.
Germans retreating.
Oct. 2S.-Prinzip was sentenced to q
years imprisonment; four of his accom-
plices 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.
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa
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 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.
| STA declared 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. 7-German fortress of Using Tao
China, stormed by japanese and British
and captured.
Nov. s.-Belgian troops penetrated e
Ostend. a.
| 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 sanl
| four Turkish transports.
Nov. 11.-British gunboat Niger sunk BY
| a torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg, Eas
| Prussia.
| Germans captured Dixmude.
Nov. 15.-Germans forced from all posi-
| lions on left bank of the Yser
| British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
| trance to Red sea.
| Nov 16.-Floods in West Flanders Gu
off large number of Germans
| Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
of warfare.
| Nov 1S-Russians checked by German
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 victor,
over Germans who were advancing OF
Warsaw.
Nov. 24-Germans opened a terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to L
| Bassee.
Naval base Of Germans at Zeebrugge de
| molished by shells from British fleet.
Nov. 23.-British battleship Bulwark de
stroyed by explosion off Sheerness.
Nov. N.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
bardment Of Reims
Two British ships sunk off Havre b
German submarines. and one off Grimsb
by mine.
Dec. L-Germans cut their way out G
the Russian trap in Poland but with grea
losses
j General De Wet. Boer rebel leader. car
tured
Dec. 2-Germans In Poland resumed til
offensive.
Belgrade. capital of servia. occupied b
the Austrians.
Dec. 6.-Germans occupied LODI, Rus
sian Poland. after severe bombardment
Dec 7.-Germans defeated Russian
north and south Of Lodz.
Dec. Sherman cruisers Scharnhors
Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg. unde
Admiral Won Spec, sunk by British squad
| ron under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederic
Sturdee off the Falkland islands. TIL
Dresden, badly damaged. escaped.
Emperor William i'll in Berlin.
General Beyers, rebel Boer leader. r,
ported dead.
Turkish forces at Kurna. at head Of Pei
sian gulf, surrendered to British exped
tionary force from India.
Dec. 9.-Terrif1c fighting around Lowic
4 Russian Poland.
Dec. 10.-Allies captured Roulers an
Armentieres.
Austrians In Servia compelled to r,
| treat.
Dec. 11.-Russians checked three Of I'll
five German columns advancing On Wa
saw
Allies repulsed violent attacks Of Ge
mans near Ypres.