Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-01-01

Steamer Red Cross with American Red
1 Cross nurses and surgeons sailed from
( New York
Sept. a. Retreating German army
matted in strongly intrenched position
: along the Aisne river. Amiers reoccuped
by the French
Sept. 22.-Three British cruisers were
! torpedoed and sunk by German submarine
| In the North sea-
Sept 26.-British troops from India
landed at Marseilles.
Sept. 20.-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 LycE, East Prus-
! STA
! Oct. 10.-German army of 10000 was re-
pulsed at Quatrecht. east of Client
,. oct IT, il;-Germany imposed war fine OF
si0o.o00,0G0 on Antwerp
Russian cruiser Pallada sunk by German
submarines.
Oct. 12.-Ghent occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 13-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 I.-Germans occupied Ostend and
| Bruges.
oct l6.-Brtish cruiser Hawke SUN in
the North sea by German submarine
Oct H.-Japancse cruiser Takachiho
! sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay
BRUSH cruiser Undauntcd and four de-
stroyers sunk four German destroyers in
North sea
Oct B.-Allies recaptured Armentieres
OCT. lo.-Desperate fighting along Bel
gran coast. British warshins taking part
oct &.-French retoOk Altkirch, Alsaoe
at the point of the bayonet
oct. A-Ten days battle before War
saw ended In German defat
Oct. S.-GeTmans crossed River User
and slowly pressed toward the south.
oct. 28.-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.
Non FalkenhaYn, German minister of
war, made chief of staff to succeed Won
&Toltke.
Oct. 8.-De Wet and Beyers joined in
South Africa revolt
British dreadnaught Audacious sunk by
mine
Russians reoccupied LODI and Radon.
Germans retrcating
oct. S.-Prinzip was sentenced to 20
wears imprisonment; four Of his accom-
rices sentenced to death and others to
various terms of imprisonment
Rotha reported the rOut of the rebel
3oarg
German cruiser Emden torpedoed Rus
sian cruiser and French destroyer in Pc
nang harbor
Oct. 29-Turkey began war on Russia.
the cruiser Breslau bombarding Odessa,
Theodosia and other places on the Black
sea.
Nov. I.--l'ritlsh cruiser fsr1-rles 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 Akahah,
Arabia
Germans abandoned left bank of the
User below Dxmude
Nov. 5.-France, Great Britain and Rus
STA declared war on Turkey. Great Brit
8n annexed Cyprus.
Nov. 6.-The sheik-ul-Islam ordered a
holy war against Russia, France and Eng
and.
Nov Herman fortress of Using Tao,
China. stOrmed by Japanese and British
and captured.
Nov 9.-Relgian troops penetrated to
0Steud
Ynres set fire by German shells and de-
3troved.
German cruiser Emden driven ashore
on COcos islands and destroyed by Aus
'ralidn cruiser Sydney.
Nov. 10 Russian fleet in Black sea sank
Sour Turkish transports.
Nov 11--British gunboat Niger sunk by
4 torpedo of Deal
Russians occupied Johannesburg, East
Prussia
Germans captured DiXmude
Nov l5.-Germans forced from all posi-
ions on left bank of the User.
British destroyed Turkish fort at en-
rance to Red sea.
Nov. fe. Floods in West Flanders ont
II large number of Germans
Pope issued encyclical urging cessation
Il warfare
Nov lS-Russians checked by Germans
SOldau after four days of bloody fight
ng
Nov. %. -Ypres bombarded by Germans. :
own hall and market place being de-
trcyed.
Nov. % Russians won great victory
rver Germans who were advancing on
Warsaw.
Nov. 24-Germans opened terrific at
'ack on the allies from Yprcs to La
3assee.
Naval base of Germans at Zeebrugge de-
Tolshed by shells from British fleet.
Nov 25.-British battleship Rulwark de-
StrOyed by explosion off Sheerness
Nov. 27.--Gerrans renewed fierce bonn
bardmcnt of Reims
Two British ships sunk off Havre by
German submarines. and one off Grlmsby
by a mine
Dec 1-Germans cut their way out of
the Russian trap in POLAND but with great
losses.
General De Wet Boer rebel leader. can
tured.
Dec. 2.--Germans in Poland resumed the
offensive
Belgrade. capital of Servia. occupied by
the Austrians
Dec. 6.-Germans occupied LODI Rus
sian Poland. after severe commandment
Dec 7.-Germans defeated Russians
north and south of Lodz.
Dec Sherman cruisers Scharnhorst. +
Gncisenau Eeipzig and Nuremberg. under
Admiral Won Spec. sunk by British squad
ron under Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick
Sturdee off the Falkland islands. The
Dresden, badly damaged. escaped.
Emperor William i'll in Berlin
General Beyers, rebel Boer leader, re-
ported dead.
Turkish forces at Kurna, at head of Per-
sian gulf, surrendered to British expedi-
tionary force from India.
Dec. 9.-Terrific fighting around Lowicz.
Russian Poland.
Dec. 10-Allies captured Roulers and
Armentieres
Austrians in Servia compelled to re-
treat.
Dec. n.-Russians checked three of the
five German columns advancing On War
saw
Allies repulsed violent attacks of Ger
mans near Ypres
German submarine attack on Dover re-
pulsed