Meade County news., 1915-01-07

Nov. 6.-Tsing Tao surrenoers tn the
Japanese.
Nov 7-German light cruiser Geier in
terms in Honolulu; Austrians report ad-
vance in Servia; Russians reach Pleschen
in Silesia and enter East Prussia.
Now 9.-Carranza fees from Mexico
City.
Nov TO- The Emden defeated and
forced ashore at North Keeling island in
Bay of Bengal by Australian cruiser sgd
ney.
Nov. 11.-Germans capture Dixmude;
German submarine sinks British gunboat
Niger off Deal.
Nov. 12-Russians occupy Johannesburg
in East Prussia; Russians defeated at
Vlotslavek.
Nov. 3-Fightngs renewed at Nieuport.
Nov. 15.-Russians defeated at Lipno and
Kutno; battle in Flanders attains climax
with charge of the Prussian Guard
against Ypres: battle In Flanders attains
climax with charge of the Prussian Guard
against Ypres.
Nov. 16-The Sheikh -ul-Islam at Con-
stantinople proclaims Holy War against
the allies, British house of commons votes
war loan of 225.0O,OOO pounds.
Nov. H.-Berln announces Austrian VIC
tory over Servians at Valjevo.
Nov. 1S.-French capture Tracy-le-Val:
Naval battle in Black sea, In which Turks
and Russians both claim victory.
Nov. 19-House Of commons votes new
army of 100000 men; more than 100000
men already under arms exclusive of ter
ritorials; Germans pierce Russian center
south of Lodz.
Nov. 22.-Russians surround two Ger
man corps south of Lodz.
Nov. 26.-British battleship Bulwark de-
stroyed by explosion in the Medway river:
Germans break through Russian circle
near Lodz.
Nov. 26.=SAmerican army evacuates Vera
Cruz.
Nov. 29.-Russlans fail In assault on
Darkehmen in East Prussia
Nov. 3O.-Artillery fighting renewed
aong the User.
DECEMBER.
Dec. 1.-German Reichstag votes new
credit of five billion marks; Russians oc-
cupy Plotsk on the Vistula; King George
visits the army in Flanders; French cap
ture Chateau Of Vermelles.
Dec. 2.-Austrians take Belgrade by
storm; Germany claims $4,000 Russian
prisoners since November H. General De
Wet captured.
Dec. 3.-London war office announces
landing of Australians and New Zealan-
ders in Egypt; Italian premier in parlia-
ment finds no reasons for a change of
policy; Servians turn on Austrians in
three days battle which ends In a nota-
BILE Servian victory:
Dec. 6.-Germans occupy LODI.
Dec. 7.-French attack to the north Of
Nancy repulsed.
Dec. S.-The German squadron under
Rear Admiral Won Spec is attacked In the
South Atlantic off the Falkland islands
by British fleet under Admiral Sturdee,
and the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau.
Leipzig and Nuremberg are sunk; British
occupy Bassorah. in Asia Minor.
Dec. 1O-Unoffcial reports speak of
German submarine attack on Dover.
Dec. 11.-Russlans claim to have beaten
back thre Grman attacks on Warsaw.
Dec. 12.-Berln announces the Russians
lost 10000 men at Lodz; French state left
bank of the User Is free of Germans; Col
onel GOethals asks two destroyers to pro-
tect the neutrality of the Canal Zone.
Dec. 13.-French lombard Metz forts.
Dec. 1.-THE Servans having cut an
Austrian army to pieces, reoccupy Bel
grade.
Dec. H-British announce the submarine
Bill dived under five rows of mines and
sank the Turkish battleship Messudeh.
Dec. 15.-Three thousand U. s. troops
ordered to Mexican border at Waco,
where wander bullets killed and wounded
| fifty-two persons on the American side.
General attack by the allies In Flanders
and France.
/ Dec. 16.-Seven German cruisers shell
| Hartlepool Scarborough and Whitby in
England; at least ninety-five killed and
one hundred wounded.