Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-01-20
Nov. s-Tsing Tao surr-uders 20 the


japanese
Nov T.-German light cruiser Ge!er In
terms in Honolulu Austrians report ad-
vance in Servia: Russians reach Pleschen
in Silesia aud enter East Prussia.
Nov. 9.-CarrGnza fees from Mexico
City.
Nov To- - The Emden defeated and
forced ashore at North Keeling island In
Bay of Bengal. by Australian cruiser sgd
ney.
Nov. n.-Germans capture Dixmude,
German submarine sinks British gunboat
Niger off Deal
Nov. 12-Russians occupy Johannesburg
In East Prussia; Russians defeated at
Vlotslavek.
Nov. 1S-Fighting renewed at Newport.
Nov. 15.-Russians defeated at Lipno and
Kutno: battle in Flanders attains climax
with charge of the Prussian Guard
against Ypres; battle in Flanders attains
climax with charge of the Prussian Guard
against Ypres.
Nov. 16-The Sheikh- I'LL Islam at Con-
stantinople proclaims Holy War against
the allies: British house of commons votes
a war loan of 225.00.OO0 pounds.
Nov. T.-Berln announces Austrian VIC
tory over Servians at Valjevo.
Nov. 1S.-French capture Tracy-le-Val;
Naval battle in Black sea, in which Turks
and Russians both claim victory.
Nov. 19.-HOuse of commons votes new
army of 10O0. 0C0 men: more than 100000
men already under arms. exclusive of ter
ritorials Germans pierce Russian center
south of LODI.
Nov. 22.-Russians surround two Ger
man corps south of Lodz.
Nov. 26.-Brtish battleshIp Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion in the Midway river;
Germans break through Russian circle
near Lodz.
Nov. 26-American army evacuates Vera
Cruz.
Nov. 2s-Russians fail in assault on
Darkehmen in East Prussia.
Nov. SO.-Artillery fighting renewed
aong the User.
DECEMBER.
Dec. 1.-German Reichstag votes new
credit of five billion marks; Russians oc
cupy Plotsk on the Vistula: King George
visits the army in Flanders; French cap
ture Chateau of Vermelles.
Dec 2.-Austrians take Belgrade by
storm: Germany claims $4,000 Russian
prisoners since November IL; General De
Wet captured
Dec 3.-London war office announces
landing of Australians and New Zealan-
ders in Egypt; Italian premier in parlia-
ment finds no reasons for a change Of
policy: Servians turn on Austrians In
three days battle which ends In a nota-
BILE Servian victory.
Dec. 6.-Germans occupy LODI
Dec. French attack to the north Of
Nancy repulsed.
Dec. 8.-The German squadron under
Rear Admiral Won Spec Is attacked In the
South Atlantic off the Falkland islands
by a British fleet under Admiral Sturdee,
and the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau
Leipzig and Nuremberg are sunk; British
occupy Bassorah in Asia Minor.
Dec. 10-Unoffcial reports speak of a
German submarine attack on Dover.
Dec. 11.-Russians claim to have beaten
back thre Grman attacks on Warsaw.
Dec 12.-Berlin announces the Russians
lost 900 men at LODI; French state left
bank of the User is free of Germans Col
onel Goethals asks two destroyers to pro-
tect the neutrality of the Canal Zone.
Dec 1s-French bombardU hs> forts
Dec H.-The Servians having cut an
Austrian army to pieces. reoccupy Bel
grade.
Dec. H.-British announce the submarine
Bill dived under FIVE rows of mines and
sank the Turkish battleship Messudieh.
Dec. 15.-Three thousand u. s. troops
ordered to Mexican border at Waco.
fifty-two persons on the American side.
General attack by the allies in Flanders
and France.
Dec. 16-Seven German cruisers shell
Hartlepool Scarborough and Whitby in
England; at least ninety-f1ve killed and
one hundred wounded