Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01

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Serbian arms after FIVE days of lighting
and the Austrians were routed.
In the meanwhile the battle Of Lor-
ralne had opened and the German
troops had entered Brussels. the Bel
gian capital.
A few day. later. August %, the vic
torious Germans entered Namur and
began an attack on Mons. defended
principally by tho first British expedi-
tionary force. The next day the Brit
ish troops began a retreat from their
position and from Their on until sep.
tember IL the German troops drove
Trough Franco under the leadership
Of General Won kluck. zeppelins bonn
barded Antwerp; the French We're
forced to e~vacuate Mulhausen; the
Germans took and swept over Longwy
and reached Senlis. 90 miles from
] Paris, where the columns swung to
the eastward The French government
fed to Bordeaux.
In the meantime German and Austrian
troops had met the Russians, 4 victory
at krasnik was announced by the Aus
TRAN government on August % while on
August % the German army under Cen
eral Won H~indenburg defeated another
Russian force in a battle at Tanneburg,
which lasted three days. Louvain was
burned by the Germans on the same day
that the Japanese blockade of Tsingtau
was begun. The blockade was maintained
more than two months before Tsingtau
surrendered.
FRENCH CAPITAL AT BORDEAUX.
Two days after the French government
~..l " 49, % 49,
Marine was begun. a few hours before
Russian troops succeeded In occupying
LENDERS. the capital of Galicia.
Before the French and British troops
the Germans In France We're forced t.
retreat as far as the Aisne. Events OF
the next few days included the lombard
ment Of rheims by the Germans, and
the sinking by a German submarine Of
the British cruisers Aboukir, Cressy ant
Hogue. on the same day the Russian
troops attacked przemysl and tool
Jaroslav.
British troops from India were landed
from transports at Marseilles on Septem
Der rs and were Immediately dispatched
to the n~orthward. Before their arriva
al their destination the Germans had in
augurated a siege Of Antwerp. which re
suited in the Belgian government moving
from that city to Ostend. Two days late
the bombardment Of Antwerp began. Th'
belgian government remained at Osten'
for about a week and then removed t.
Havre, France. Forty-eight hours late
the Germans captured Ostend. Meanwhile
the allied troops occupied Yples. and
desperate battle had begun on the Wis
tula river German assaults mon Nh
allied lines between ypres and Nieupor
continued for n week and then weakened
The Germans operating in Russia mean
battle before Warsaw.
REVOLT AND MrTINy.
In Africa revolt and mutiny broke out
These disorders We're headed by tn
Boer leader. General de Wet, Genera
Beyers, Colonel Maritz and others.
Colonel Maritz was driven from cap
Colony. General Beyers vas killed a
Naal river. and General de Wet va
. c captured after he had been in the fell
for more thar a month, Native troops ii
the African provinces belonging to Ger
many. Great Britain and France wer
lined up on the borders of the respectiv
provinces. Fighting was general.
During the latter part of October tn
| British d~readnought Audacious was sun
=, off the Irish coast; the Russians success
-, fully attacked LODI and Radon. drivinI
out the invading Germans. Turkey ioine'
!, the war az that iuncture by naval oper
atoms in the Black sea. Odessa was AZ
tackled.
November opened with a German naVa
victory over a British squadron off tn
:, coast of chile and the Turkish Warship
. bomharded Sebastapol. Two days late
German warships ventured from thei
anchorage behind the naval base n
Heligoland and rded the BIRTHS
coast in the vicinity of Yarmouth. o
November ., Great Britain and Franc
declared war on Turkey and the fort
were bombarded by a fleet Of allied Ems
lish and French warships. On the mort
the Russians reoccupied JaroslaV ate
several days of ferocious fighting.
: German cruisers which hal been st;
toned in foreign waters at the openir
of the war had by that time given
good account of themselves. The E,mde
operating in the indian ocean and ~
iaCent waters overlook and sunk mo
than n score of mercantile ships heloni
s ing 10 the nations allied against German
y before she was finally run down and d
.e stroyed off Cocos island, In the Atlant
= the Karlsruhe and a number Of a~uxiliai