The Winslow mail., 1915-01-09


of Belgian neutrality: Germany rejects
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 AIsace
Aug. S.-Italy reafirms neutrality;
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. 10.-France proclaims a state Of
war with Austria.
Aug. 1S.-England declares war on Aus
tria.s
Aug. 13.-President Carbajal leaves Mex
leo City.
Aug. 15.-Austrians enter Servia; Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany
Aug. 17.-British eXpeditionary force
completes it's landing in France; Belgian
capital removed from Brussels; beginning
of a 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
Jadar, ending in Austrian rout
Aug. 20.-Germans enter Brussels; Bel
CLAN army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug. 23.-Germans begin attack on
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. N.-Louvain burned by Germans;
Japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug. 29.-Germans capture LaFere; Rus
slams defeated in three days battle near
Tannenberg.
Aug. 9O.-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
Marne 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.
OSpl 1U-IL0 KAISER pTOLeSLS TO PreSl-
dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bull
let's and civilian excesses by the allies.
Sept. 12.-German retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept. 16-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities
Sept. T.-Austrian armies effect juno
tion and hold line of San River against
| Russians
Sept. 20-Germans lombard Reims and
inJure the famous cathedral.
Sept. 22.-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue in
the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav
and invest Przemysl
Sept. 6.-British troops from India land
at Marseilles.
Sept. 28.-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. 30-German warships lombard
Japanese position before Kiauchau
OCTOBER.
Oct 1-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.-Russians occupy towns in
| Hungary.
| Oct 5.-German 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. 10.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazebrouck.
| Oct. 11.-German advance in Poland ap-
proaches the Vistula and threatens War
! saw; Austrian counter-offensive in Galicia.
| Oct PA Boer commander in the Cape
| province mutinies and martial law is de-
clared throughout the South African
| Union.
| Oct. 13-Belgian government transferred
| from Ostend to Havre.
Oct. 14.-Allies occupy Ypres; battle be-
gins the Vistula.
| Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
| Oct. 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
| Oct. H.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
| Oct. 18-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
| coast to Lille
| Oct 20-English gunb oats participate in
battle at Nieuport on Belgian coast.
| Oct A.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
| ends in German defeat
| Oct. 26.-After a week IF furious fighting
| German assaults on allihd line from Nieu-
| port to Ypres slacken
| Oct N.-South African sedition spreads,
General DeWet in revolt; Russians pur-
sue retreating Germafs and reoccupy
Lodz 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-
stroyer.
| Oct 29.-Turkey begins war on Russia
| by naval attacks on Odessa, Novorossysk,
| and Theodosia in the Crimea
Oct 30.-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 a British squadron
! off Coronel, on the coast of Chile; Turks
lombard Sebastopol