The weekly soliphone., 1915-07-02

on September 26 and were immedi- ately dispatched to the northward. Before their arrival at their desti- nation the Germans had inaugural ed siege of Antwerp, which re- suited in the Belgian government moving from that city to Ostend. Two days later the bombardmert of Antwerp began. The Belgian government remained at Ostend for about a week and then removed to Havre, France. Forty-eight hours later the Germans captured Ostend. Meanwhile the allied troops occu- pied Ypres and desperate battle had begun on the Vistula river. German assaults upon the allied lines between Ypres and Nieuport continued for a week and then weakened.
 BRITISH REVOLT IN AFRICA.
 The Germans operating in Rus sia meantime had been defeated after a ten days battle before Warsaw.
 In Africa revolt and mutiny broke out. These disorders were headed by the Boer leaders, Gen. De Wet, Gen. Beyers, Col. Maritz and others.
 Col. Maritz was driven from Cape Colony, Gen. Beyers was kill ed at Vaal river, and Gen De Wet was captured after he had been in the field for more than a mouth. Native troops in the African prov inces belonging to Germany, Great Britain and France were lined up on the borders of the respective provinces. Fighting was general.
 During the latter part of October the British dreadnaught Audacious was sunk off the Irish coast; the Russians successfully attacked Lodz and and Radon, driving out the invading Germans. Turkey joined the war at that juncture by naval operations in the Black sea. Odessa was attacked.
 November opened with a Ger man naval victory over British squadron off the coast of Chile and the Turkish warships bombaroed Sebastapol. Two days later Ger man warships ventured from their anchorage behind the naval base at Heligoland and bombarded the British coast in the vincity of Yarmouth On November 5, Great Britain and France declared the entrance to the Dardanelles were bombarded by a fleet of allied Eng fish and French warships. On the north the Russians reoccupied Jar oslav after several days of ferociOus fighting.
 The German cruisers which had been. stationed in foreign waters at the opening of the war had by that time given good account of them selves. The Emden, operating in the Indian ocean and adjacent wa ters, overlook and sunk more than a score of mercantile ships belong ing to the nations allied against Germany before she was finally run down and destroyed off Cocos island. In the Atlantic the Karls ruhe and a number of auxiliary cruisers performed similar duties. They, too, sent to the bottom more than a score of ships.
 FIGHTING IN EAST PRUSSIA.
 On land the armies of the bellig erents settled down to hold their positions for the winter months. Activities from November II, when the German forces captured Dix nude, resulted in Russian defeats at Vlotslavek, Lopno and Kutno. The battle in Flanders progressed at intervals, vigorous actions talk ing place and thousands of men on DOIn S1uoS DelnS kllleu or WOunucu. Intrenched for the winter, the arm ies contented themselves principal i ly with holding the positions they | had gained. In the Serbian-Aus- trian campaign there was consider able activity during the early months. The Austrians occupied Belgrade, the Serbian capital, on December 2, and retained it until December IS, when, after the Serb ians had captured large forces of Austrians, they were driven back into their own territory.
 In East Prussia, during the win ter, there was severe fighting, re- sulting in the loss of many men, dead, wounded and captured. The German armies operating in East Prussia held off and dispatched a Russian army of vast proportions, finally driving it back into it's own territOry