Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-01-05

French troops reoccupied Luneville and
Scissors.
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. H. - 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 26.-British troops from India
Sept. 29.-Germans began ettack on de-
lenses Of Antwerp.
Oct 2-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct 5.-Belgian government moved to
Ostend
Oct. s.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lyck, East Prus-
sia
Oct. 10.-German army of 10000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht, east Of Client.
Oct. u.-Germany imposed war fine OF
s1o0. OO0. 900 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines
Oct. 12-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 13.-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.
Oct. 16-British cruiser Hawke sunk in
the North sea by German submarine
Oct. H-Japanese cruiser Takachiho
Ct IFlr hrr a. L.,
British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North sea-
Oct. 1S.--Alles recaptured Armentferes
Oct. 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
gian coast. British warships taking part.
Oct. B.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace,
at the point of the bayonet
Oct. A.-Ten days battle before War
saw ended in German defat.
Oct. 3.-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south.
Oct. 26.-Germans bombarded Newport
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 % others
found guilty of treason.
Won Falkenhayn, German minister of
war, made chief of staff to succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. 2s.-De Wet and Beyers joined in
South Africa revolt.
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine.
Russians reoccupied Lodz and Radon,
Germans retreating.
Oct. 28.-Prinzip was sentenced to 20
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. 29.-Turkey began war on Russia,
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa,
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea.
Nov. british cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits
Five German warships engaged four
British warships off the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; the
fourth escaped.
Nov 3-British and French fleet bonn
barded the Dardanelles forts, and British
vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah,
Arabia
Germans abandoned left bank of the
User below Dixmude
Nov. 5.-France, Great Britain and Rus
STA declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus.
Nov 6.-The sheik- ul-Islam ordered a
holy war against Russia France and Eng
land.
Nov Herman fortress of Using Tao,
China, stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov. s.-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. 10-Russian fleet in Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov 1.-British gunboat Niger sunk by
a torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg, East
Prussia.
Germans captured Dixmude.
Nov. 15.-Germans forced from all posi-
tons on left bank of the User.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
trance to Red sea.
Nov. 16.-Floods in West Flanders cut
off a large number of Germans.
Pope issued encychcal urging cessation
of warfare.
Nov. 1S-Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four days of bloody fight
ing.
Nov. 22.-Ypres bombarded by Germans,
town hall and market place being de-
stroyed.
Nov 2s-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw.
Nov A.-Germans opened terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
Bassee
Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge de-
molished by shells from British fleet.
Nov. 26-Brittsh battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion off Sheerness.
Nov. H.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
bardment of Reims
Two British ships sunk off Havre by
German submarines. and one off Grimsby
by mine.
Dec. 1-Germans cut their way out of
the Russian trap in Poland but with great
losses
General De Wet, Boer rebel leader, cap
tured
Dec. 2-Germans in Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade. capital of servia, occupied by
the Austrians.
Dec. 6.-Germans occupied LODI, Rus
sian Poland. after severe bombardment.
Dec 7-Germans defeated Russians
north and south of Lodz
Dec. Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst
Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg. under
Admiral Won Spec, sunk by British squad
run NiCS-<AuAllIdi CiE rESQSIICk
Sturdee off the Falkland islands. The
Dresden, badly damaged. escaped.
Emperor William III in Berlin.
General Beyers. rebel Boer leader, re-
ported dead.
Turkish forces at Kurna, at head of Per-
sian gulf. surrendered TO British expedi-
tionary force from India
Dec 9-Terrific fighting around Lowicz,
Russian Poland.
Dec 1o.-AlIies captured Roulers and
Armentieres.
Austrians In Servia compelled to re-
treat
Dec. 11.-Russians checked three of the
five German columns advancing on War
saw.
Allies repulsed violent attacks OF Ger
mans near Ypres.
German submarine attack on Dover re-
pulsed.
Dec 12-German barracks at Kiei de-
stroyed bv fire
Governor Goethals asked that destroy
ers be sent to Panama canal at once TO
enforce neutrality.
British submarine passed under mines
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