The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-01-08

Aug. 4-England sends ultimatum t
Berlin. demanding unqualified observanc
Of Belgian neutrality; Germany reject
ultimatum; German troops begin attacl
on Liege; President Wilson issues procla
nation of neutrality.
Aug. b.-England announces existence o
state Of war with Germany; Presiden
Wilson tenders his good offices to tn,
warning nations.
Aug. e--Austria declares war on Russia
Aug. 7.-Germans enter Liege; French
| invade southern Alsace
Aug. 8-Italy reaffirms neutrality
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. D.-France proclaims state o.
war with Austria.
| Aug. 1s.-Engiand declares war on Aus
/ tria
Aug. 1s-President CarbaJal leaves Mex
| leo City.
| Aug. 15.-Austrians enter servia; Japar
sends ultimatum to Germany.
| Aug 17-British expeditionary force
completes its landing in France; Belgian
capital removed from Brussels; beginning
of five days battle In Lorraine. ending
In repulse of French across frontier with
heavy loss; beginning of five days battle
between Servians and Austrians on the
Jadari ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. 20.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
gian army retreats on Antwerp.
ave- -S1Si DC6ih dtldCh Oii
Mons; Austria announces victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug. A.-Germans enter Namur British
begin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
Aug. 25.-Austria declares war on Japan
Muelhausen evacuated by the French.
Aug. 26-Non-partisan French cabinet
organized; Germans take Longwy
Aug. 26.-British fleet sinks five German
warships off Helogoland.
Aug. 27.-Louvain burned by Germans;
japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug. 29.-Germans capture LaFere; Rus
SLAMS defeated in three days battle near
Tannenberg
Aug. 30.-Germans occupy Amiens.
SEPTEMBER.
Sept 1-St. Petersburg to be known
henceforth as Petrograd by Imperial de-
cree
Sept. 2.-Germans advance pentrates to
Creil, about 80 miles from Paris and
swings eastward; French center between
Verdun and Reims driven back; seat of
French government removed to Bordeaux.
Sept. 3-Russians occupy Lemberg.
Sept. 5.-Battle begins south of the
Marine and east of Paris in which the
German right wing is pushed back, fol-
lowed by a general retreat.
Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 1o.-The kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
let's and civilian excuses by the allies.
Sept. R.-German retreat halts on the |
Aisne.
Sept. 16.-Belgian commission protests |
to President Wilson against German |
Atrocities
Sept. T.-Austrian armies effect juno
ton and hold line of San River against |
Russians
Sept. 2o.-Germans lombard Reims and
n1ure the famous cathedral.
Sept. 22.-German submarine sinks Brit
Ssh cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue in
he North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav
and invest Przemysl
Sept. 26.-Brtish troops from India land
1T Marseilles
Sept. 2S-Germans begin siege of Ant
werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
.hian passes into Hungary.
Sept. 29.-Germans deliver fierce attacks
around Noyon French press forward
from Toul and verdun.
Sept 30.-German warships lombard
Japanese position before Kiauchau.
OCTOBER.
Oct. L-Heavy fighting near Arras be-
yins.
Oct. END of weeks battle at Angus
owo in which the Germans are defeated
nd forced out of Russian territory.
Oct. 3-5.-Russians occupy towns In
hungary
Oct. Sherman attacks of Lassigny re-
ulsed; Belgian government removed ,
rom Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 7-Bombardment Of Antwerp be-
ms; British submarine sinks German de-
troyer; Japanese seize Caroline islands.
Oct. 8.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. 9.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
1ans.
Oct. 10.-French win cavalry engagement '
round Hazebrouck
Oct. u.-German advance in Poland ap- !
reaches the Vistula and threatens War
aw; Austrian counter-offensive in Galicia
Oct. IA Boer commander in the Cape [
rovince mutinies and martial law is de- 2
Jared throughout the South African /,
Tnion.
Oct. 13-Belgian government transferred l
-om Ostend to Havre.
Oct. 14.-Allies occupy Ypres; battle be-
ms on the Vistula
Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger I
lans. Z
Oct. 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
ernan submarine. ,
Oct. T.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
Ink by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
Oct. 1S.-Belgian army effects junction b
18th allied left battle on from Channel
vast to Lille. !.
Oct. 20.-English gunboats participate in
title at Newport on Belgian coast.
Oct. 2.-Ten days battle before Warsaw r
Ids in German defeat r
Oct. 26.-After week of furious fighting !,
srInan assaults on allied line from Nieu-
'rt to Ypres slacken.
Oct. 27.-South African sedition spreads, | C.
eneral DeWet in revolt; Russians pur n
e retreating Germans. and reoccupy ),