Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-01-01
burg: Germany addresses ultimatum to
Belgium demanding free passage for her

VII 4ASc8oS 1IcBlUSuI WILSON l88ueS 0rOCy0..
nation Of neutrality.
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 Alsace.
Aug. s.-1taly reaffirms neutrality:
French occupy Muelhausen.
war with Austria.
Aug. 13.-England declares war ON Aus
tria.
Aug. 1s.-President carbajal leaves Mex
leo City.
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter servia: Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany.
Aug. N.-British expeditionary force
completes its landing in France: Belgian
capital removed from Brussels; beginning
In repulse Of French across frontier with
heavy loss; beginning Of five days. battle
between Servians and Austrians on the
Jadar, ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. 3.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
CLAN army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug 2s-Germans begin attack on
Mons: Austria announces victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug N-Germans enter Namur; British
bombs into Antwerp
Aug. 25.-Austrfa 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. &.-Germans capture LaF'ere; Rus
SLAMS defeated in three days battle near
Tannenberg
aug. 0.-Germans occupy Amiens.
SEPTEMBER.
Sept. LIST. 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
German right wing is pushed back, fol-
lowed by general retreat.
Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 10.-The kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use Of dum-dum bull
lets and civilian excuses by the allies.
Sept. R.-German retreat hats on the
Aisne.
Sept. 16.-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities"
Sept. 17-Austrian armies effect 1unc-
ton and hold line Of San River against
Russians,
sept. O.-Germans lombard Reims and
fnjure the famous cathedral,
Sept. 22.-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir, Greasy and Hoeue in
the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslay
and invest Przemysl.
Sept 26:-British troops from India land
at Marseilles.
Sept. 2S.-Germans begin siege of Ant
werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
THAN passes into Hungary.
Sept. 9-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-FIeavy sighting near Arras he.
gins.
Oct. END Of weeks battle at Angus
towo in which the Germans are defeated
and forced out Of Russian territory.
Oct. 3-5.-Russians occupy towns in
Hungary.
Oct. SHERMAN attacks Of Lassigny re-
pulsed; Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 7.-Bombardment of Antwerp be-
gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer; Japanese seize Caroline islands.
Oct. S-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. 9.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 1o-French win cavalry eneagement
around Hazebrouck.
Oct. l.-German advance in Poland ap-
proaches the Vistula and threatens War
saw; Austrian counter-offensive in Galicia.
Oct. IA Boer commander In the Cane
province mutinies and martial law is de-
clared throughout the South African
Union.
Oct. 13-Belgian government transferred
from Ostend to IIavre.
Oct. H.-Allies occupy Ypres: battle be-
gins on the Vistula.
Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger.
mans.
Oct. 1e.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct. H.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
Oct. 1S.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
coast to Lille.
Oct. @.-Enslish gunboats participate in
battle at Newport on Belgian coast
Oct. A.-Ten days battle before warsaw
ends in German defeat
Oct. 26.-After week Of furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nieu-
port to Ypres slacken.
Oct 9-South African sedition spreads.
General DeWet in revolt; Russians pur-
sue retreating Germans and reoccupy
Lode and Radon.
Oct. 8.-Berlin admits retreat from
Warsaw and Ivangorod: German cruiser
Emden enters harbor of Penang and tor
pedoes Russian cruiser and French de-
atroyer.
Oct. 2e.-Turkey begins war on Russia
by naval attacks on Odessa. Novorossysk
and Theodosia In the Crimea.
Oct. 3o.-Colonel Maritz, rebel leader in
Cape Province, beaten and driven out Of
the colony.
NOVEMBER.
Nov. Ia squadron of five German
cruisers. including the Gneisenau and
scharnhorst, defeated British SQUADRON
on Coronel, on the coast of Chile; Turks
lombard Sebastopol.
NOV. 3.-German squadron makes q raid
TO British coast near Yarmouth.
Nov. 3.-Republican landslide In United
States elections.
Nov. 4-German cruiser York strikes
mine In Jade Bay and sinks; heavy fieht-
ing around Ypres.
Nov. k-NnO1ooA o-A