Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-01-01

Aug. 4-England sends utiinarum 20
Berlin, demanding unqualified observance
OF Belgian neutrality; Germany rejee,s
ultimatum; German troops begin attack
on Liege; President Wilson issues procla-
nation Of neutrality.
Aug. 5.-England announces existence of
state of war with Germany: President
Wilson tenders his good Offices to the
warning nations
Aug 6--Austria declares war on Russia.
Aug. 7-Germans enter Liege: French
Invade southern Alshce
; Aug. Sl-Italy reaffirms neutrality.
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug lo.--France proclaims,,a state of
war with Austria. -
Aug. 13.-England declares war on Aus
tria.
Aug. 13.-President Carbajal leaves Mex
leo City
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter servia; Japan
sends ultimatum TO Germany.
Aug. H.-Britlsh 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 i've days battle
between servians and Austrians on the
Jadar. ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. 20.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
gan army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug. 23.-Germans begin attack on
-
Mons; Austria announces victory over
Russians Mt fSrasnik
Aug A-Germans enter Namur; British
begin retreat from Mons: Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
Aug. @.-Austria declares war on Japan;
Mueihausen evacuated by the French
Aug. B-Non-partisan French cabinet
organized; Germans take Longwy.
Aug. 26.-British fleet sinks Ave German
warshlps Off Helogoland.
Aug. H.-Louvain burned by Germans:
Japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug. @.-Germans capture LaTere; Rus
SANS defeated In three days battle near
Tannenberg.
Aug. So.-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 30 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. 6.-Battle begins south of the
Marine and east of Paris In which the
ierman right wing Is pushed back, fol-
lowed by a general retreat.
sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 10.-The kaiser protests 10 Presi-
dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
lets and civilian excuses by the allies
Sept. ALDERMAN retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept. 6.-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities"
Sept. H.-Austrian armies effect Iunc-
ton and hold line of San River against
Russians
Sept. 2O.-Germans lombard Reims and
in1ure the famous cathedral
Sept. 22.-German submarine sinks Brit
ism cruisers Aboultir, Cressy and Hopue In
the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav
and invest Przemysl
Sept. a.-British troops from India land
at Marseilles
Sept 2S.-Germans begin siege OF Ant
werp. Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
THAN passes into Hungary.
Sept 29.-Germans deliver fierce attacks
around Noyon; French press forward
from Toul and verdun.
Sept. 3o.-German warships lombard
japanese position before Kiauchau.
OCTOBER.
Oct, L-Heavy fighting near Arras be-
gins.
Oct END of weeks battle at Angus
towo In which the Germans are defeated
and forced out of Russian territory
Oct 3-5.-Rua'ians occupy towns In
Hungary.
Oct. 5.-German attacks OF Lassigny re-
pulsed; Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Ostend
Dot. 7.-Bombardment OF Antwerp he
gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer; Japanese seize Caroline islands.
Oct. S.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. s-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 10.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazebrouck.
Oct. ALDERMAN advance in Poland an
the Vistula and threatens War
saw; Austrian counter-offensive In Galicia.
Oct. ia Boer commander In the Cane
province mutinies and martial law Ia de.
clared throughout the South African
Union.
oct. 1S.-Belgian government transferred
from Ostend to Havre
oct. i.-Allies occupy Ypres; battle be-
Oct. 15.-ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 1s.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct H.-Japanese cruiser Takachino
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
Oct. B.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left. battle on from Channel
coast to Lille
Oct 20-English gunboats participate I'm
battle at Newport on Belgian coast
Oct 2.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
ends In German defeat
Oct 26.-After a week of furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nleu-
port to Ypres slacken.
Oct. H.-South African sedition spreads
General DeWet in revolt; Russians pur-
sue retreatlng Germans and reoccupv
Lodz and Radon.
Oct. @.-Berlin admits getreat from
Warsaw and Ivangorod: German cruiser |
1mden enters harbor of Penang and tor |
,edoes Russian cruiser and French de- |
Itroyer.
Oct. 29.-Turkey begins war on Russia
~ naval attacks on Odessa, Novorossysk. |
md Theodosia in the Crimea.
oct. S0-Colonel Maritz. rebel leader I'm |
cape Province, beaten and driven out of |
he colony.
NOVEMBER.
Nov. LA squadron OF Ave German
ruisers, including the Gneisenau and
;charnhorst, defeated a British squadron
m Coronel. on the coast of Chile: Turks
lombard Sebastopol.
Nov. 3.-German squadron makes a raid
o British coast near Yarmouth.
Nov. 3.-Republican landslide in United
states elections
Nov 4-Garman cr,,isar vo.t, ..,, |