Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10


 and occupied by allies.
 Steamer Red Cross with American Red Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from New York.
 Sept. H - Retreating German army halted in strongly intrenched position along the Aisne river Amiens reoccupied by the French.
 Sept. 2.-Three British cruisers were torpedoed and sunk by German submarine fin the North sea.
 Sept S.-British troops from India landed at Marseilles.
 Sept. 2s.-Germsns began attack on de- lenses of Antwerp.
 Oct 2-Germans defeated ct Augustcwo and forced out of Russia.
 Oct. a-Beigian government moved to Ostera
 Oct. s.-Germans entered Antwerp
 Russian army occupied iyck. East Prus- sia
 pulsed at Ouatrecht. east of Ghent
 Oct. n.-Germany imposed war fine of sloo. .ono. .e0o on Antwerp.
 Russian cruiser Pallsda sunk by German submarines Oct. le-Ghent occupied by the Ger mans
 Oct. Is-Belgian government moved to Havre. France.
 Colonel Maritz and his troops in the northwest of Cape province. South Africa, rebelled. Martial law proclaimed through out Union of South Africa.
 Oct l5.-Germans occupied Ostend and Bruges Oct. is-British cruiser Hawke sunk in the North sea by German submarine.
 Oct. 17.-Japsnese cruiser Takachiho sunk hy torpedo in Kiauchau bay
 British cruiser Cndaunted and four de stroyers sunk four German destroyers in North sea
 Oct. 1s.-Allies recaptured Arment'ere>. Oct. l9.-Desperate fighting along Bel gian coast. British warships taking part. Oct. @.-French retook Altkirch, Alsace, at the point of the bayonet.
 Oct. 2I-Ten days battle before War saw ended in German defat
 Oct. S.-Gernans crossed River Yser and slowly pressed toward the south. Oct. 2s.-Germans bombarded Nieuport but were checked by allies
 Maritz 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 staff 10 succeed Won Noltke.
 Oct. 2S-De Wet and Beye-s Joined in South Africa revolt
 British dreadnauGht Audacious sunk by mine
 Russians reoccupied Lodz and Radon, Germans TetreatinE.
 Oct. 2s.-Prinzip was sentenced to % years imprisonment: four of his accom- pllces sentenced to death and others to various terms of imprisonment
 BO'ha reported the Tout Of the rebel Boers
 German cruiser Fmden torpedoed Rus sian cruiser and French destroyer in Pc nanK harbor.
 Oct. 2s-Turkey began war on Russia. the cruiser BreslaU bombardinc Odessa. Thcodosla and other places on the Black sea.
 Nov 1-Trftisr cruiser Hernes sunk by German submarine in Dover straits Five German warships engaged four British warships nG the coast of Chile and sank two and disabled third; the fourth escaped
 Nov 3-Britlsh and French fleet bonn barded the Dardanell-s forts, and British vessels destroyed the barracks Of Akabah. Arabia
 Germans abandoned left bank of the Yser below Dixmude.
 Nov. 5.-France. Great Britain and RTs- sia declared war on Turkey. Great Brit ain annexed Cyprus
 Nov 6-The sheik-ul-Islam ordered a holy war against Russia, France and Eng land.
 Nov. 7-German fortress of T.ing Tao. China, stormed by Japanese and British and captured.
 Nov. e.-Belgian troops penetrated to Ostend.
 Ypres set fire by German shells and de- stroyed
 German cruiser Emden driven ashore on Cocos islands and destroyed by Aus tralian cruiser Sydney.
 Nov. 1o-Russian fleet in Blaci. sea sank four Turkish transports.
 Nov. 1l.-British gunboat Niger sunk by a torpedo of Deal
 Russians occupied Johannisburg, East Prussia.
 Germans captured Dixmude
 Nov 15.-Germans forced from all posi- tons on left bank of the Yser.
 British destroyed Turkish fort at en- trance to Red sea.
 Nov 1s.-FIoods in West Flanders cut off large number of Germans
 Pope issued eHcyclicai urging cessation of warfare.
 Nov Is.-Russians checked by Germans at Soldau after four days of bloody fight ing.
 Nov. 22-Ypres bornbarded by Germans. town hall and market place being de- stroyed.
 Nov. S-Russians won great victory over Germans who were advancing on Warsaw.
 Nov. 2i--Germans opened terrific at tack on the allies from Ypres to La Bassee.
 Naval base of Germans at Zee brugge de- molished by shells from British fleet Nov. 25.-British battleship Bulwark de- stroyed by explosion of Sheerness. Nov. 27.-Germans renewed fierce bonn bardrnent of Reims.
 Two British ships sunk of Havre by German submarines. and one of Grimsby by a mine.
 Dec. I-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 servis. occupied by the Austrians
 Dec. 6-Germans occupied Lodz Rus sian Polar nd. after severe bonlbardment Dec 1.-Germans defeated Russians north and south of Lodz.
 Dec. s-German cruisers Scharnhorst Gneisenau. Leipzig and Nuernberg under Admiral von Spec. sunk by British squad ron under Vice-A3mirai Sir Frederick sturdee off the Falkland islands. The Dresden. badly damaged. escaped
 Emperor William III in Berlin.
 General Beyers, rebel Boer leader. re-