Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-01
outbreak Of Long-Dreaded War Marks Year Just Close

mans. Japanese blockade Tsingchau.
( August 2s-Brltish fleet sinks five
German warships off Iielgoland
! August 29-Gcrmans capture LaFcrc
J Russians defeated in three days battle
near Tannenberg.
| August 30-Gcrmans occupy Amicns
! September 1-St. Petersburg to be
known hcnccforth as ,Petrograd by i'm
| pcrial decree.
! September 2-Germans advance pen
etrates to Crell, about thirty miles from
! Paris, and swings eastward. French
, centre between Vcrdun and Rheims
ment removed 10 bordeaux.
September 3-Russians occupy Lem
I berg.
! September 5-Battle begins south OF
the the Marne and east of Paris. in which
back, followed by u general retreat.
! September 7-Maubcuge taken by the
Germans.
! September 10-The Kaiser protests &c
! President Wilson against use Of dunn.
/ dunn bullets and civilian excesscs BY
( the allies.
! September 12-German retreat halts
! on the Aisne.
September 1G-Belgian commission
| protests TO President Wilson against
| German atrocities"
September l7-Austrian armies eff.
! feet junction and hold line OF Sar
| River against Russians.
; September 20-Ger1nans lombard
Rheims and injure the famous cathe-
dral.
| September 22-Gcrman submarine
sinks British cruisers Aboukir. Greasy
and lioSue in the North Sea. Russians
capture Jaroalav and invest Przemysl
September 25-Gcrmans forced back
| from Ossowiecz, in Russia.
September 26--British troops from
India land at Marscilles.
! September 2S--Germans begin siege
OF Antwerp. Russian patrols penetrate
Carpathian passes into Hungary.
/ September 29-Germans deliver fierce
attacks around Noyon. French press
forward from foul and Verdun
September 30-German warships bonn
bard Japanese position before Kiau-
chau.
October 1-IIeavy lighting near Arras
beg ms.
October END OF weeks battle 1T
AugustOwo, IN which the Germans are
defeated and forced out OF Russian ter
ritory.
October 3-5-Russians occupy towns
! in hungary.
! October sherman attacks OF Las
siSny rcpulscd. Belgian government
removed from Antwerp TO Ostend
october I-Bombardmcnt OF Antwerp
begins. British submarine sinks Ger
man destroyer. Japanese seize Caro-
lima Islands.
'''optt S--Itppel!nS DOmDard Ant
werp.
October s--Antwerp occupied by the
Germans.
October lo--French win cavalry en-
gasement around IIazebrouck.
October l1-German advance in Po-
land approaches the Nistula and
threatens Warsaw. Austrian counter
offensive in Galicia.
October ia Roer commander in the
Cape Province mutinies and martial
law is declared throughout the South
African Union.
transferred from Ostend to Havre.
October 1i-AlIies occupy Tyres. Bat
tie begins on the Vistula.
October l5-Ostcnd occupied by the
Germans
October 1G-British cruiser Hawke
sunk By German submarine.
october l7-Japanese cruiser Tack
achino sunk by torpedo In Kiauchau
Bay
October ls-Belglan army effects
junction with allied left. battle on from
Channel coast TO Lille.
October 2O-Engi!sh Eunboats par
, ticipatc In battle at Newport. on Bel
CLAN coast.
October 24-Tcn days battle before
Warsaw ends in German defeat.
October e6-After a week of furious
fighting. German assaults on allied limo
I
October 27--South African sedition
spreads General De Wet in revolt.
Russians pursue retreating Germans
and reoccupy Lodz and Redom.
October 2S-Berlin admits retreat
from Warsaw and 1vangorod. German
cruiser Emden enters harbor of Penang
and torpedoes Russian cruiser and
French destroyer
October 2s-Turkey begins war on
Russia By naval attacks on Odessa.
Novorossysk and Theodosia in the Cri-
mea
October so-Colonel Maritz. rebel
leader in Cape Province. beaten and
driven out of the colony.
November IA squadron OF FIVE Ger
man cruisers. including the Gneisenau
and Scharnhorst, defeated n British
squadron off Coronel, on the coast OF
Chile. Turks lombard Sebastopol.
November = German squadron
makes n raid to British coast near Var
mouth.
November 3-Republican landslide in
United States elections.
November Herman cruiser Yorck
strikes mine in Jade Bay and sinks
Heavy lighting around Ypres.
November 5-England and France de-
clare war on Turkey. Dardenclles
, forts bombarded. Russian reoccupy
Jaroslav.
November 6-Tsingchau surrenders
November German light cruiser
Geier interns in Honolulu. Austrians
report advance in Servia. Russians
reach Pieschen, in Silesia. and enter
East Prussia.
November e-Carranza fees from
Mexico City.
November l0-The Emden defeated
and forced ashore at North Keeling
Island. In Bay of Bengal. by Austria
liam cruiser Sydney.
November 11-Germans capture Dix
nude. German submarine sinks Brit
ish gunboat Niger off Deal.
November l2- Russians occupy
JOHANNESBURG, In East Prussia. Rus
SLAMS defeated at Vlotslavek.
November 13-Fighting renewed at
| Newport
November 15-Russians defeated at
IiDno and Kutno. Battle in Flanders
nttains climax with charge of the Prus-
sian Guard against Yprcs.
November 1.-THE Sheikh- ul-Islam
at Constantinople proclaims holy