Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01

Soissons
Sept 1s.-Lille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by allies.
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York.
Sept. u. - 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 2s.-British troops from India
landed Mt Marseilles.
Sept. 2s.-Germans began attack on de-
fenses of Antwerp.
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct 5.-Belgian government moved to
Ostend.
Oct 9.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyclt, East Prus-
Oct 1o-German army of 5000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht. east OF Ghent
Oct n.-Germany imposed war fine of
800, 600 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines.
Oct 12.-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 1a.-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.
the North sea by German submarine.
Oct. H-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.-Allies recaptured Armentieres.
Oct. 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
CLAN coast. British warships taking part.
Oct 2.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace.
at the point of the bayonet.
Oct. 2I.-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 Nieuport
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 q others
found guilty of treason.
Won Falkenhayp, German minister of
war. made chief of STAN to succeed Won
Moltke.
Oct. 2s-De Wet and Beyers Joined in
South Africa revolt.
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine.
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon.
Germans retreatinE.
Oct. 2s.-Prinzip was sentenced to %
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.
Oct. ce.-Turkey began war on Russia,
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa,
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea.
Nov. 1.-British cruiser Hcrmes sunk by
German submarine In Dover straits.
Five German warships engaged four
British warships on the coast Of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; the
fourth escaped.
Nov, 3.-British and French feet bonn
barded the Dardanelles forts. and British
vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah.
Arabia
Germans abandoned left bank of the
User below Dixmude.
Nov. b.-France. Great Britain md Rus
sia declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus.
Nov. 5.-The sheik-ul- Islam ordered a
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
lnnd
Nov. 7.-German fortress of Using Tao.
China. stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov. Belgian troops penetrated to
ostend
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. I0.-Russian fleet In Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov. n.-Britlsh gunboat Niger sunk by
a torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg. East
Prussia.
Germans captured Dixmude.
Nov. i5.-Germans forced from all post
tions on left bank OF the User.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
trance to Red sea
Nov. l6.-Floods In West Flanders cut
on large number of Germans
Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
OF warfare
Nov. 1s.-Russians checked by Germans
at soldau after four days OF bloody fight
ing
Nov. ea-Tprrs bombarded by Germans.
town hail and market place being de-
stroyed.
Nov. 23.-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw.
Nov. 2i.-Germans opened a terrific at
tack on the allies from Yprss to La
Bnssee.
Naval base OF Germans at zeebrugge de-
molished by shells from British fleet.
Nov. 2G-British battIeshIp RuIwark de-
stroyed by explosion of Shcerness.
Nov. 27.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
barlment of Reims.
Two British ships sunk off Havre by
German submarines, and one Off Grlmsby
by a mine.
Dec. I.-Germans cnt their way out Of
the Russian trap in Poland but with grent
losses.
General De Wet. Boer rebel leader. cap
tured.
Dec. 2-Gcrruans In Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade. capital OF servia. occupied by
the austrlans.
Dec. s.-Germans occupied I>od2 Rus
Sian Poland. after severe bombardment.
Dec 7.-Germans defeated Russians
north and south OF Lodz.