Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-12-30
EUROPEAN WAR

| IAN. 1-British battleship Formidable
sunk by German submarine In the Eng
Iiph channel. with $40 of crew.
Z Jan. 6.-Russians annihilated Ninth
Turkish army corps and routed t1rst ana
Tenth corps in the Caucasus.
Russians forced Uzsok pass In the
Carpathians.
IS Jan. .1o.-Liile evacuated by Germans
and occupied by British.
( Jan. T.-Russians stormed southern
ICarpathian pass and entered Transyl-
wanna
ian. 1s.-Six German zeppelins raided
the Norfolk coast. dropping bombs In
Yarmouth. Sandringham. Kings Lynn,
Conner, Sberringham and Beeston. caus-
ing heavy damage and some loss OF HE.
/ Jan. 2l-German armored cruiser Blue
! cher sunk and two battle cruisers Grip
pied by Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron
I. IN running fight in North sea-
/. Jan. 2s-Austro-H Hungarian forces occu-
pied Kielce. Russian Poland.
/ Jan. N.-Austrians drove Russians from
| lUxsok pass In Carpathians.
Feb. 1.-French torpedo boa sunk on
Nieuport.
! Feb. 2.-Anglo-French fleet destroyed
4 -four forts In the Dardanelles.
| Feb. 4.-Germany declared waters
around British isles a war zone.
Feb. 6.-Russians crossed River Rawka,
I penetrating German front west OF War
saw.
Feb. 9.-Germans violently bombarded
| scissors. setting 1t aflre
! Feb lo.-Russians repulsed Austro-Ger-
mans In Crrpathians but were driven back
! In Bukowina-
/ British held cargo of food ship Will
| helmina.
1 ! Feb. u.-United States warned Germany
against destroying American vessels or
I Hives of American citizens in attacking
! whipping, and warned Great Britain or
I - I,ta &c In, ha
( 1se of American flag by British vessels.
: Germans evacuated LODI, but drove the
! Russians out of East Prussia.
| | Feb. T,-Germany replied unfavorably
to American warning not to sink Ameri-
can ships, and Great Britain refused to
I modify Its shipping orders.
/ Germany began blockade Of England by
sinking two vessels.
II Feb alderman blockaders sank
American steamer Carib Norwegian ship
: Rsgin. damaged British collier and three
British merchant steamers.
1 Williams killed
\ Feb 2.-Allied fleets reduced Turkish
korts at entrance of Dardanelles.
n Feb 2s.-Dacia seized by French cruiser
and taken to Brest.
March 2.-Great Britain laid embargo
aEainst shipment of all commodities into
Germany.
Hamburg American officials indicted in
New York by federal grand jury for con-
spiracy to defraud the United States.
March 5.-Austrians evacuated Czerno-
witx. Bukowina.
March 8.-Zeppelin airship LIS de-
stroyed near Tirlemont and II OF crew
KILLED
March 10.-American ship william p.
Frye sunk by German cruiser Prinz Eftel
Friedrich. Prinz Etel at Newport News
with captain and crew of Frye.
4 March 11.-German submarine U-2 sunk
by British torpedo boat Ariel
British took Neuve Chapelle.
Germans abandoned Augustowo. Po-
land.
March 15.-British order in council shut
on all trade with Germany, ordering tech
nical blockade.
| German cruiser Dresden sunk Off Falk-
/ land islands by British warships Glasgow
and Kent and Japanese converte. cruiser
! Drama
March 1S-American sanitary commits
sion organized for work in Serbia.
British battleships Irresistible and Ocean
and French battleshlp Bouvet sunk by
mines In the Dardanelles.
March 2.-Austrian fortress of Prem
| yxl surrendered to Russians
Il Turks massacred thousands OF Chris
| tians at Urumiah. Persia.
| March 23.-Germans In Client executed
! II Belgians as spies.
/ Germans drove Russians out of East
/ Prussia.
Allies landed force on GaIipoli penin-
sula,
March N.-Russlans forced way through
| Carpathians into Hungary
| March 28.-Twenty day battle In Cham
payne country won by French Germans
losing $1,000.
German submarine sank British steam
ers Aguilar and Faiaba, about 40 lives
being lost.
of Austrians
Turkish cruiser Mejidieh sunk by Rus
sian mine
April s.-Germany agreed to pay for
sinking American ship William p. Frye.
April 10.-Steamer Harpalyce. first re-
lief ship OF New York to Belgium. sunk
IN North sea by torpedo or mine.
April H.-United States replied to Ger
man governments criticism of its for
eigf1 policies, DENYING allegations and re-
( tscting suggestions that expectation of
| Arms be prohibited.
April 26.-French cruiser Leon Gambet-
T. sunk by Austrian torpedo. 652 lives
lost.
| April 4.-German air raiders dropped
incendiary bombs on nve English east
| coast towns.
Russians occupied Loubnia, northeast
! of Uzsok pass.
April 3n British announced destruction
of eight German submarines within week
by mines and net traps.
May british torpedo boat dA6ffQeor
and two German torpedo boats sung In
| fight In North sea.
American tank steamer Gulnight tor
pedoed by Germans OF Scilly islands, cap
/ tain and two seamen lost. ~
May 6.-Austro- German forces occupied
Tarnow. "a Nsa
May 7-Cunard liner Lusitania torpedoed
and sunk by Germans OF coast of Ireland
| with iosss If l,2o6 lives, including Ifs
Americans: among the latter A. g.. Van
derblt. Ebert Hubbard. Chas. Frohman
Cha1- Klein and Charles Plamondon..
May 6.-Britiah DESTROYER Maori sunk
i by mine
Russian naval base of Libau captured
n Germans-