Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-01-01

BELGIUM demanding free passage for her
troops.
Aus. A-Engiand sends ulumaum TO
Berlin. demanding unqualified observance
Of Belgian neutrality. Germany rejects
ulumatumi German troops begin attack
on Llege. President Wilson issues procia-
nation OF neutrality.
Aus. b-Engiand a~nnounces existence Of
state OF war with Germany: President
Wilson tenders his good offices to the
warning nations.
Aug 6-Austria declares war on Russia.
Aug T.-0ermans enter Liege: French
invade southern Alsace.
Aug. 6-Itaiy reafhrms neutrality;
French occupy Muelhausen.
Aus n-France proclaims a state Of
war with Austria.
Aug. 1~s.-Engiand declares war on Aus
tria.
Aug n.-Presldent carbajal leaves Mex
leo City.
Aug. B-Austrians enter servia; Japan
sends ultimatum to Germany.
Aug H.-British e~Npeditionary force
completes its landing IN France: Belgian
capital removed from Brussels; beginning
% a five days battle IN Lorraine. ending
In repulse Of French across frontier with
heavy loss. beginning OF five days battle
between servians and Austrlans on the
Jadar. ending in Austrian rout.
Aug. m.-Germans enter Brussels: Bel
gia army retreats on Antwerp.
Aug 0.-Germans begin attack on
Mons. Austria announces victory over
Russians az Krasnlk.
Aug. A.-Germans enter Namur. British
tegin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops
bombs Into Antwerp.
Aug. G.-Austria declares war on Japan:
Muelhausen evacuated by the French.
Aus. @-Non-partlsan French cabinet
organised Germans take Longwy.
A. o. n-HaH.N. a. 49,
warships on Helogoland.
Aug. 2T.-Louvain burned by Germans;
Japanese blockade Using Tao.
Aug B.-Germans capture LaFere: Rus
sians defeated In three days battle near
Tannenberg.
Aug. 0-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 30 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 Lemberg.
sept. b.-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. T-Maubeuge taken by the Ger
mans.
Sept iO.-The kaiser protests to Presi-
dent Wilson against use OF dum-dum bull
lets and civilian eNcesses by the allies,
Sept. alderman retreat halts on the
AiBne.
Sept. i6.-Belgian commission protests
atrocities"
Sept. 17.-Austrian armies effect juno
ton and hold line OF San River against
Russians.
Sept. @.-Germans lombard Reims and
inIure the famous cathedral.
Sept. 2-German submarine sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue in
the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav
aud Invest Przemysl.
Sept 8.-BHtlsh troops from India land
at MarseiIles.
Sept. 2S-Germans begin siege OF Ante
werp; Russian patrols penetrate Carpa-
THAN passes into Hungary.
sept 2-Germans deliver fierce attacks
around Noyon; French press forward
from Toul and Verdun.
Sept. O.-German warships lombard
Japanese position before Kiauchau.
OCTOBER.
Oct L-Hesvy 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 S5.-Russians occupy towns In
Hungary.
Oct. 5.-German attacks OF Lassigny re-
pulsed; Belgian government removed
from Antwerp to Ostend.
Oct. 7-Bombardment OF Antwerp be-
gins; British submarine sinks German de-
stroyer; japanese seize Caroline Islands.
Oct. 6.-Zeppelins lombard Antwerp.
Oct 9.-Antwerp occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct 1O.-French win cavalry engagement
around Hazebrouck.
Oct. 1i.-German advance in Poland APP
proaches the Vistula and threatens War
saw. Austrian counter-onensive in Galicia.
oct ia Boer commander in the Cape
province mutinies and martial law Is de-
clared throughout the South African
Union.
oct. 13.-Belgian government transferred
from Ostend to Havre.
oct A-Allies occupy Ypres. battle be-
gins on the VistulR.
oct 15.-ostend occupied by the Ger
mans.
Oct ls-British cruiser Hawke sunk by
German submarine.
Oct. f~L-JapRnese cruiser TakachImo
sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay.
Oct. B.-Belgian army effects junction
with allied left, battle on from Channel
coast 10 Lille.
VT 0s-EnBusu kuuDohIA participate In
battle at Newport on Belgian coast.
Oct. A.-Ten days battle before Warsaw
ends In German defeat
Oct. 26.-After a week OF furious fighting
German assaults on allied line from Nleu-
port 10 Ypres slaeken.
oct 27.-South African sedition spreads.
General DeWet IN revolt; Russians pur-
sue retreating Germans and reoccupy
LODI and Radon.
Oct. 2.-Berlin admits retreat from
Warsaw and %Ivangorod: German cruiser
Emden enters harbor OF Penang and tor
pedoes Russian cruiser and French de-
Eroyer.
Oct z9.-Turkey begins war on Russia
by laval attacks on Odessa. Novorossysls.
and Theodosia In the Crlmea.
Oct. @-ColOnel Maritz. rebel leader in
Cape Province, beaten and driven out OF
the colony.
NOVEMBER.
Nov Ia squadron OF i've German
cruisers. Including the Gneisenau and
s~chaTnhorst. defeated a British squadron
on Coronel. on the coast OF Chile; Turks
lombard Sebastopol.
Nov. Alderman squadron makes a raid
TO British coast near Yarmouth.
Nov. 3-Republlcan landslide In United
States elections.
Nov. Alderman cruiser York strikes
milne In Jade Bay and sinks; heavy light
ing around Ypres.
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