Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-08-13

around Fazebrouc!x, northwest Of Lille
over German raiding troopers
10 Belgian government transferred from
Ostend to Havre. France; third 70.
moval in two months.
IA. Allies occupied Ypres Belgium.
10. Ostend occupied by Germans. who
marched out to attack the French
fortress Of Dunkirk on the channel
coast.
1S. Belgian army, which had escaned fron
the lines at Antwerp, reached Ypres.
70 English gunboats participated in bat |
tie Of Newport. on Belgian coast en-
gagins the German batteries on land.
"a. Heavy fighting on the Belgian coast;
the Germans crossed the Yser-Ypres
/ canal, nc.r Newport.
In rattle on the coast of Belgium Ger
| man siege guns drove back British
| Warships in the English channel.
| ~. Belg1ans flooded the German camps on
the river User, in Belgium, by cutting
| the bikes and forced the German troops
| to withdraw.
NOVEMBER, 1914.
Z. The kaiser's troops made series Of
! attacks from their lines at Arras and
| In the Vosges and Argonne forests.
southeastern France.
II. Germans crossed the Ypres canal Bel
GUM, at two points after defeating the
allies.
To- French and Belgian troops repulsed
Germans on the User and regained lost
ground
1917. German long range guns bombarded
Rheims the second time
DECEMBER 1914.
I. German outpost in front of La Bassee,
France, captured by the allies.
t6-18 French and Belgian troops advanc-
ed on the User and at Ypres. forcing
| loo l- TOW ri
r. Fierce artillery battle along the entire
front in southea stern France. French
air scouts located German targets for
allied guns.
French were advancing in Asace and
firmly held the Vosges passes.
II. French captured important ground at
Steinbach, in Alsace
JANUARY, 1915.
4. French troops recaptured Steinbach, in
Alsace.
; s. Germans attacked by the allies at
scissors, France.
: Il. Flood the Aisne prevented the al
: lies from reinforcing their line north
h Of the river.
: IA. Allies withdrew south of the Aisne,
losing 5000 prisoners and many guns
10. Heavy fighting at Arras, in Belgium
and Alsace. Germans captured trenches
from the French at st. Mihiel.
). 2. Allies captured La Bassee, in France
\ German aviators dropped bombs al
Dunkirk.
FEBRUARY, 1915.
: 21-22 Germans threw 1900 shells into city
f. Of Rheims.
MARCH, 1915.
e TO- Beginning Of British attacks Ger
" man line at Ncuve Chapele France
The village captured.
Il 1913. French attacks and German cOun
ter attacks continued at Neuve Cha
IN pclle, with heavy losses on both sides
OF q. French troops captured the German
IN position HartmannsWeilerkOpf i
S APRIL 1915.
. 10. French occupied Les Eparges. Ger
mans bombarded Rheims.
49, German attack at Les Eparges re
!" pulsed with heavy loss.
%. Germans captured the heights Of LIE
FL Eparges on the Mouse line and RECAP
tured Hartmannsweilerkopf, in tn
Vosges mountains. They repulsed a
e' attack by allies along the Ypres cana
- with asphyxiating gas and crosse
10 that barrier to the west side.
lis a. Fighting continued at Ypres, bot
sides gaining ground at separat
q. French recaptured Hartmannsweile
kOpf in Alsace.
j.. 80. German artillery at Newport, Belgium
bombarded Dun!zrk, on the Frenc
cnannel COAST, lI1llCllIlS CdSudlllcS,
by % mile range.
let MAY, 1915.
w. 3. Germans captured important position
En- in Flanders, including Hill No.
where British defenders were owe
J. come by gas.
JUNE, 1915.
l. British army casualties to date
out France and Belgium 258, 069, includil
ter 5O342 killed.
ven II. French troops, with heavy artille
re- support gained ground north of Arr
en-. in France. They also advanced
Alsace.
of 10. French forces made gains around A
vas ras. where there was a fierce bait
re- over a point known as the Labyrinth
e. French troops occupied the Labyrin1
JULY, 1915.
g. Germans forced the French line ba
in Alsace. -
1s. Souchez cemetery and trenches ne
Arras, France, captured by German
IT, Germans captured mile OF Fren
trenches in the Argonne.
a. In the Argonne the French repuls
'as' German attacks and gained ground
%. French reports stated that there u
tho q violent cannonade in LIE Pret-e f
est German bombardment Of Point
the Monsoon and ALSO sOf HartmannaW,