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the British Dreadnought Audacicus
was sunk OFF the Irish coast: tho Rus
SLAMS successfully attacked LODI and
Radon, driving out the invading Ger
mans. Turkey joined the war at that
)uncture by naval operations In the
Black Sea. Odessa was attacked.
November opened with German
naval victory over British squadron
OFT the coast OF Chile. and the Turkish
whrships bombarded Sebastopol Two
days later German warships ventured
from their anchorage behind the naval
base at Helsoland and bomharded the
British coast in the vicinity OF Var
| mouth. On November Great Britain
, and France declared war on Turkey,
and the forts guarding the entrance
TO the Dardanelles were bombarded by
a fleet of allied English and French
warships. On the north the Russians
! rcoccupied Jaroslav. after several DAYS
of ferocious lighting.
GERMAN CRUISERS GIVE GOOD
! ACCOUNT OF THEMSELVES
German cruisers which had been sta :
TONED III foreign waters at the open-
! ing of the war had by that time given
a good account of themselves. The
Emden, operating in the Indian Ocean
and adjacent waters, overlook and
sunk more than score OF mercantile
! ships belonging to the nations allied
against Germany before she was final
| ~ run down and destroyed off Cocos
island. In the Atlantic, the Karlsruhe
and a number of auxiliary cruisers per-
formed similar duties. They, too, sent
| to the bottom more than a score of
ships.
! On land the armies of the hellig-
crents settled down TO hold their posi-
! lions for the winter months. Activi-
| ties from November IL. when the Ger
man FORCES captured DiNmude, resulted
IN Russian defeats at Vlotslavek
Lopno and Kutno. The battle i'm
FLANDERS progressed at intervals, Wig
| orous actions taking place and thous-
ands OF men OH both sides being killed
or wounded. Intrenched for the win
ter. the armies contented themselves
! principally with holding the positions
they had gained. In the Serbian Aus
trian campaign there was considerable
activity during the early winter
months. The Austrians occupied Bel
grade, the Serbian capital on Decem-
Der 2. and retained it until December
10, when, after the Serbians had cap
tured large forces OF Austriaas, they
were driven back into their own terri
tory.
In East Prussia during the winter
there was severe fighting, resulting i'm
the loss of many men. dead, wounded
and captured. The German armies
operating in East Prussia held off and
dispatched a Russian army OF vast
! proportions. finally driving it back
| well Into its own territory.
On the sea n British squadron signal
"a nfA
which was victorious off Chile This
engagement took place off the Falk-
land Islands. German cruisers bonn
! barded IIartlepool and SCARBOROUGH,
and the German armored cruiser
Bluecher Was sunk in the North Sea
by section of the British fleet operat-
ing there. German submarines became
especially active during the winter
| months, sinking many warships and
merchantmen.
| REPRISALS by BRITISH
! AGAINST GERMANS
March opened with an announcement
| of British reprisal- measures against
| the Germans for the submarine war
| fare and the development OF battles
| in France.
! British troops In France again be-
came active, making a notable advance
at Neuve Chapelle. BY the cnd OF
March the Russian troops had pcne-
trated the Dukla Pass and entered
Hungary April saw the beginning OF
violent assaults upon the German lines
| by Ihe French east OF Ncrdun and tho
! Meuse. The French stormed the Ger
| man position at Les Eparges. and about
| the same time it was officially an
nounced that the total of British cas-
ualties TO that date were 1884 BY
! the middle of April the Russians had
penetrated Hungary to a point twenty
| miles over the border, and the Ger
| mans had begun successful assault
| upon the allied lines near Ypres. For
| several weeks the armies struggled
| back and forth, losing thousands of
men, gaining ground one day and be-
| ing forced to eracuate their positions
| the next. In Galicia during the hrst
three days OF May the German-Aus-
! trian forces broke through the Russian
! lines and forced retreat. Fifty
| thousand prisoners it was recited,
were taken.
Around Ypres the British forces lost
| ground, and were finally forced to
| evacuate an especially strong position
| they had gained at an elevation, desig-
mated as hill No. Co. Almost stimuli
| taneously the Russians began re-
| treat from tho Carpathian passes, and
| while this was in progress the Cunard
liner Lusitania, bound from New York
! 10 Liverpool. was sent to the bottom
! by torpedo fired by a German sub
| marine. Approximately 1900 lives
| were lost in the disaster.
/ The loss of Americans in the Lusi-
| tania and other vessels which were
| victims OF Germany's submarine war
/ fare resulted in President Wilson pro-
| testing against a continuance of such
| tactics.
| On May. 90 italy declared war on
! Austria Hungary, after having de-
| nounced early in the month the triple
| alliance treaty. The declaration of
war was quickly followed by raids
! ,anaI, Tho "a liz n g citiea h,.