Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
pnrsr Germany addresses ultimatum to
Belgium demanding free passage for her

Aug. A.-England sends ultimarum to
Berlin, demanding unqualified observance
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
warning nations.
Aug. 6-Austria declares war on Russia
Aug. 7.-Germans enter Liege; Wrench
invade southern Alsace
Aug 8-Italy reaffirms neutrality
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aug. l0.-France proclaims state OF
war with Austria.
Aug. 13.-England declares war on Aus
tria.
Aug. B.-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 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
gian army retreats ons Antwerp.
Aug. 23.-Germans begin attack on
Mons; Austria announces victory over
Russians at Krasnik.
Aug. 24-Germans enter Namur; British
begin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops
bombs into Antwerp.
Aug 2S-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. 27.-Louvain burned by Germans:
Japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug. 29-Germans capture LaFere: Rus
slams defeated in three days battle near
Tannenl erg.
Aug. 30.-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 Lenlberg.
Sept. 5.-Battle begins south of the
Marine and east of Paris in which the
German right wing is pushed back, fol-
lowed by a general retreat.
Sept. 7.-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept. 10-The kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use of dunn dunn bull
lets and civilian excuses by the allies
Sept. 12.--German retreat halts on the
Aisne.
Sept. 16.-Belgian commission protests
to President Wilson against German
atrocities"
Sept. 17.-Austrian armies effect Juno
ton 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. &.-British troops from India land
at Marseilles
Sept 2S-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. 3O-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 SHERMAN attacks of Lassigny re-
pulsed; Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Osteud
Oct 7.-Bombardment of Antwerp be-
gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer; Japanese seize Caroline islands.
Oct. 8.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct. 9.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 10.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazebrouck.
Oct. u.-German advance I'm Poland ap-
proaches the Vistula and threatens War
saw; Austrian r-offensive in Galca
Oct. ia Boer commander in the Cape
province mutinies and martial law is de-
clared throughout the South African
Union.
Oct. 13.-Belgtan government transferred
from Ostend to Havre.
Oct. 14-Alies occupy Ypres: battle be-
Oct. 15.-Ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct. 16.-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct. T.-Japanese cruiser Takachimo
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay
Oct. N.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
coast to Lille
Oct. 20.-English gunboats participate in
battle at Newport on Belgian coast
Oct. 24.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
ends in German defeat
Oct. 26-After a week OF furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nieu-
port to Ypres slacken
Oct N.-South African sedtion spreads
General DeWet in revolt Russians pur-
sue retreating Germans and reoccupy
Lodz and Radon.
Oct. S.-Berln 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 S0.-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.
Nov. SHERMAN squadron makes q raid
to British coast near Yarmouth