The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-01

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Sept. 13.-Lille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by allies
Steamer Red Cross with American Red
cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
New York
Sept. IA. - Retreating German army
matted 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
In the North sea.
Sept @-British troops from India
landed at Ma.geiIles.
sept. 29-Germans began attack on de-
lenses of Antwerp.
Oct 2.-Germans defeated at Augustowo
and forced out of Russia
Oct. 5.-Belgian government moved to
ostend.
Oct. 9.-Germans entered Antwerp.
russian army occupied Lyck, East Prus-
sia
Oct. 10.-German army Of 10000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht, east of Client.
oct. n.-Germany imposed war fine of
siOO.OOO0O0 on Antwerp.
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines
Oct. R.-Ghent occupied by the Ger
| mans.
Oct. 1s.-Belgian government moved to
Havre. France.
Colonel Maritz and his troops In the
northwest Of Cape province. South Africa,
repeiIed. Martial law proclaimed through
OUT Union of South Africa.
Oct 15.-Germans occupied Ostend and
| Bruges
oct B-British cruiser Hawke sunk in
the North sea by German submarine.
oct H-Japanese cruiser Takachfho
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
| British cruiser Undaunted and four de-
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| North sea-
| Oct B.-Allies recaptured Armentieres.
| Oct 19.-Desperate fighting along Bel
CLAN coast, British warships taking part
Oct &.-French retoox Altkirch, Alsace,
at the point of the bayonet.
Oct. 4.-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 Newport
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 to succeed Won
Moltke
Oct. 2S.-De Wet and Beyers Joined in
| South Africa revolt
| 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
/ al IN ortIica nd t.. De-
| nang harbor.
Oct. 29.-Turkey began war on Russia,
the cruiser BresIau bombarding Odessa,
4 Theodosia and other places on the Black
| sea.
Nov. british cruiser Hermes sunk by
German submarine in Dover straits.
Five German warships engaged four
British warships off the coast of Chile
and sank two and disabled a third; the
! fourth escaped.
Nov. 3.-British and French fleet 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
STA 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. Herman fortress of Using Tao.
China, stormed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov 9.-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. f0.-Russian fleet in Black sea sank
four Turkish transports.
Nov. 11.-British gunboat Niger sunk by
a 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 a large number of Germans
Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
of warfare.
Nov. 1s.-Russians checked by Germans
at Soldau after four days of bloody fight
ing.
Nov. 22.-Ypres bombarded by Germans.
town hall and market place being de-
stroyed.
Nov. 2s.-Russians won great victory
over Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw
Nov. 24.-Germans opened a terrific at
tack on the allies from Ypres to La
Bassee.
| Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge de-
molished by shells from British fleet
Nov. 26.-Brtish battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion on Sheerness.
| Nov. 27-Germans renewed fierce bonn
bardment of Reims.
Two British ships sunk off Havre by
German submarines, and one of 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
lured.
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 T.-Germans defeated Russians
| north and south of Isodz.
Dec Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst
Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nuremberg under
Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad.
ron under yiee-Admiral Sir Frederick
Sturdee off the Falkland islands. The