The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-28
ASSOCIATED Press)

war with Germany, and two days later
the Germans entered Liege as the
French invaded Southern Alsace.
These events were quickly followed
by an affirmation on the part of Italy
for her neutrality, by an Austrian in
vasion of Servia and by the sending
by Japan of an ultimatum to Ger
many. This had to do with the Ger
man possession of Kiao- Chow of which
Tsingtau was the pert.
By August II the first British ex-
peditionary force had completed its
landing in France and on the day there
began also fierce battle on the Jadar
between the Austrian and Servian
troops. Victory was with the Servian
arms after five days of fighting and
the Austrians were routed.
In the meanwhile the battle of Lor-
raine had opened and the German
troops had entered Brussels, the Bel
gian capital.
A few days later, August %, the
victorious Germans entered Namur
and began an attack on Mons, de-
Tended principally by the first British
expeditionary force. The next day the
British troops began retreat from
their position and from then on until
September II the German troops
drove through France under the lead
ership of General Won Kluck. Zeppe-
Inns bombarded Antwerp; the French
were forced to evacuate Mulhausen;
the Germans took and swept over
Longwy and reached Senlis, thirty
miles from Paris, where the columns
swung to the eastward. The French
government fed to Bordeaux.
In the meanwhile German and Aus
trian troops had met the Russians. A
victory at Krasnik was announced by
the Austrian government on August
%, while on August 20, the German
army under General Won Hindenburg
defeated another Russian force in a
battle at Tanneburg, which lasted for
three days. Louvain was burned by
the Germans on the same day that
the Japanese blockade of Tsingtau
was begun. The blockade was main
tanned more than two months before
Tsingtau surrendered.
Two days after the French govern
ment moved to Bordeaux the battle
of the Marne was begun, a few hours
before the Russians had succeeded in
occupying Lemberg, the capital of
Galicia.
Before the French and British
troops, the Germans in. France were
forced to retreat as far as the Aisne.
Events of the next few days included
the bombardment of Rheims by the
Germans, and the sinking by a Ger
man submarine of the British cruis-
ers, Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue. On
the same day the Russian troops at
tackled Przemysl and took Jaroslav.
British troops from India were land
ed from transports at Marseilles on
September 26 and were Immediately
dispatched to the northward. Before
their arrival at their destination the
Germans had inaugurated a seige of
Antwerp, which resulted in the Bel
gian government moving from that
city to Ostend. Two days later the
bombardment of Antwerp began. The
Belgian government remained at Os-
tend for about a week and then re-
moved to Havre, France Forty
eight hours afterwards the Germans
captured Ostend. Meanwhile the al
lied troops occupied Ypres, and a des-
perate battle had begun on the Vistu-
la river German assaults upon the
allied lines between Ypres and Nieu-
port continued for week and then
weakened.
The Germans operating in Russia
in the meantime had been. defeated
after a ten days battle before War
saw
In Africa revolt and mutiny broke
out. These disorders were headed by
the Boer leaders, General de Wet,
General Beyers, Colonel Maritz and
others.
Colonel Maritz was driven from
Cape Colony, General Beyers was