The Elbert County tribune., 1915-01-01

and occupied by allies
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York.
Sept. a. = Retreating German army
halted in strongly intrenched position
along the Aisne river. Amiens reoccuped
by the French.
Sept. 22.-Three British cruisers were
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine
In the North sea.
Sept g.-British troops from India
landed at Marscilles
Sept. 2s-Germans began attack on de-
fenses of Antwerp
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia.
Oct 5.-Belgien government moved to
Ostend
Oct. a.-Germans entered Antwerp.
Russian army occupied Lycl. East Prus-
sia.
Oct 1o-German army of 20.00o was re-
pulsed Mt Quatrecht. east OF Ghent.
Oct 11.-Gerrnany Imposed war fine of
s1oo. 100000 on Antwerp
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines.
Oct i2.-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct la.-Beigian government moved to
Havre. France.
Colonel Maritz and his troops in the
northwest OF Cape province. South Africa.
rebelied- Martial law proclaimed through
out Union of South Africa
Oct. 15.-Germans occupied Ostend and
Bruges.
Oct 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk In
the North sea by German submarine.
Oct. H.-Japanese cruiser Takachiho
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North sea
Oct 1s.-Ailies recaptured Armentieyes.
Oct. 1e.-Desperatc fighting along Bel
gian coast. British warships taking part.
Oct 2s.-French retook Aitkirch. Alsace.
at the point of the bayonet.
Oct. 24-Ten days battle before War
saw ended In German defat.
Oct. 25.-Germans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south
Oct, 26.-Germans bombarded Nieuport
but were checked by allies.
Martz and his rebel force defeated by
Union OF South Africa troops.
Prinzip. slayer of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and his wife, and % others
found guilty OF treason.
Won Falkenhayn. German minister of
war, made chief OF stan to succeed Won
Motke.
Oct 2s-De Wet and Beyers Joined in
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon.
Germans retreating.
Oct. 2s-Prinzip was sentenced to 20
years imprisonment; four of his accom-
plices sentenced to death and others to
various terms of imprisonment.
Botha reported the rout of the rebel
Beers.
German cruiser Emden torpedoed Rus
sian cruiser and French destroyer in Pc
nang harbor.
Oct. 29-Turkey began war on Russia
the cruiser Brcslau bombardlng ODESSA
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea
Nov. british cruiser Herrnes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits
Five German Yhrships engaged four
British warships OF the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled third; the
fourth escaped
Nov. 3.--Britlsh and French feet bonn
barded the Dardanelles forts. and British
vessels destroyed the barracks of Akabah
Arabia.
Germans abandoned left bank OF the
User below Dixmude
Nov. 5.-France. Great Britain and Rus
sia declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
ain annexed Cyprus
Nov. 6.--The sheik- k-u-Islam ordered a
holy war against Russia. France and Eng
land
Nov. 7.-German fortress of Using Tao
China, stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov. s.-Belgian troops penetrated to
Ostend.
Ypres set fire by German shells and de-
stroved.
German cruiser Emden driven ashore
on Cocos Islands and destroyed by Aus
tralan cruiser Sydney.
Nov. 1o.-Russlan fleet in Black sea snnk
four Turkish transports.
Nov. 11--British gunboat Niger sunk by
n torpedo off Deal.
Russians occupied Johannesburg East
PRUSSIA.
Germans captured Dixmude
Nov. 15.-Germans forced from all posi-
tions on left bank OF the User
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
trance to Red sea.
Nov. 16.-Floods in West Flanders cut
Off large number of Germans
Pope issued encycllcal urging cessation
of warfare.
Nov. 1s.-Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four daya of bloody fight
ing
Nov. 22,-Ypres bombarded by Germans.
town hall and market place being de-
stroyed.
Nov. 23-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw.
Nov. 24,-Germans opened terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
Bassee.
Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugse de-
Nov. 26.-British battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion of Sheerness
Nov. G.-Germans renewed fierce bonn
bardment of Rems.
Two British ships sunk Off Havre by
German submarines, and one OFF Grimsby
by mine.
Dec. 1.-Germans cut their way out of
the Russian trap in Poland but with great
losses.
General De Wet. Boer rebel leader cap
tured.
Dec. 2.-Germans in Poland resumed the
offensive.
Belgrade. capital of Servia, occupied by
the Austrians.
Dec. 6.-Germans occupied Lodz, Rus
Sian Poland. after severe bombardment.
Dec 7.-Germans defeated Russians
north and south of Lodz.
Dec. Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst.
Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuremberg. under
Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad
ron under Vice-Aduural Sir Fredericlx