Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
Chronology Of the Year, Giving
the Most important Events
in All Countries.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT WAR
Sinking Of LusItanIa and the TeutonIe
Drives Through Poland and Ser.
bla, the Outstanding Features
Prominent Persons Who
Passed Away.
EUROPEAN WAR

l.
4 Jan. 1-British battleship Formidable
Aaunk by German submarine In the Eng
s3Iish channel. with $40 of crew.
4 Jan. 6.-Russians annihilated Ninth
.3Turkish army corps and routed First and
s3Tenth corps In the Caucasus.
Y Russians forced Uzsok pass in the
Carpathians.
Jan. Io.-I.ille evacuated by Germans
Iiand occupied by British.
a Jan. 17.-Russians stormed southern
FiCarpathian pass and entered Transyl-
vania.
Jan. ls.-six German zeppeiins raided
the Norfolk coast. dropping bombs In
Yarmouth. sandringham. Kings Lynn.
Conner. 6herringham and Beeston. caus-
4 ing heavy damage and some loss Of life.
Jan. ca-German armored cruiser Blue
cher sunk and two battle cruisers Grip
pied by Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron
\ In running fight In North sea.
Jan. s6.-Austro- Hungarian forces occu-
I pied Kielce. Russian Poland.
Jan. N.-Austrians drove Russians from
! Ussok pass In Carpathians.
Feb. 1.-French torpedo boa sunk OF
Nieuport.
Feb. 2-Ansio-French feet destroyed
I, -four forts in the Dardanelles.
Feb. Germany declared waters
Feb. 6-Russians crossed River Rawka,
( penetrating German front west OF War
'saw. ea dAM
Feb. s.-Germans violently bombarded
iSoissons. setting It afire.
y Feb. 10.-Russians repulsed Austro-Ger-
mans in Carpathians but were driven back
British held cargo of food ship VIII
lhelmina.
: Feb. u.-United States warned Germany
,!Against destroying American vessels or
Hives Of American citizens In attacking
Iuhipping. and warned Great Britain of
1.-THE danger to American interests in the
juoe Of American nag by British vessels.
Germans evacuated Lodx, but drove the
Russians out of East Prussia.
Feb. H.-0ermany replied unfavorably
leo American warning not to sink Ameri-
loan ships. and Great Britain refused to
1modify its chipping orders.
Z Germany began blockade Of England by
lsinIsing two vessels.
Feb. 1.-German blockaders sank
American steamer Garth, Norwegian ship
lRegin, damaged British collier and three
IBritish merchant steamers.
Reims bombarded by Germans. 20 CT
Williams killed.
\ Feb. 25.-AIlied fleets reduced Turkish
;forts at entrance Of Dardanelles.
u Feb. 2s-Dacia seized by French cruiser
h i
March 27GAect ~Britein ls.a embargo
agaibat shipment of all commodities into
Germany.
Hamburg American of1icials indicted in
New York by federal grand Jury for con-
spiracy TO, defraud the United States.
March 6.-Austrians evacuated Czerno-
witz. Bukowtna.
March s-zeppelin airship LIS de-
etroyed near Tiriemont and IT OF crew
KILLED.
March 1o-American ship william p.
Frye sunk by German cruiser Prinz Eftel
lFriedrich. Prinz Eitel at Newport News
with captain and crew of Frye.
March 1i.-German submarine U-12 sunk
BY British torpedo boat Ariel.
v British took Neuve Chapelle.
Germans abandoned Augustowo. Po-
land.
March 15.-British order in council shut
ioff all trade with Germany. ordering tech
lnical blockade.
German cruiser Dresden sunk on Falk-
Hand islands by British warships Glasgow
and Kent and Japanese converte.' cruiser
Drama. ~ Is.
4 March 18.-American sanitary commits
sion organized for work in Serbia.
4 British battleships Irresistible and Ocean
and French battleship Bouvet sunk, by
mines in the Dardanelles.
March 2-Austrian fortress Of Prem
Turks massacred thousands Of Chris
|tians at Urumiah. Persia.
March 23.-Germans in Client executed
~ Belgians a. spies.
Germans drove Russians out Of East
Prussia
XIiiss landed forco on Gallipoli PENN
!sula.
March N.-Russians forced way through
tCarpathians into Hungary.
March 8-Twenty-day battle in Cham
lpagne country won by French. Germans
losing $4,000.
German submarine sank British steam
lers Aguilar and Falaba. about 40 lives
,1being lost.
! April 4-Russians cleared Besiid range
4 Turkish cruiser Metidieh sunk by Rus
I SIAN mine.
Aprfl s.-Germany agreed to pay for
sinking American ship William p. Frye.
! April 10.-Steamer Harpalyce. FIRST re-
1l1sf ship Of New York to Belgium. sunk
In North sea by torpedo or mine.
April n.-United States replied to Ger
man governments criticism Of its for
eign policies. denying allegations and re-
5ecting suggestions that expectation Of
arms be prohibited.
\ April 26.-French cruiser Leon Gambet-
3,ta sunk By Austrian torpedo. 552 lives
hOst
y April 0.-0erman air raiders dropped
bncendiary bombs on I'VE English east
3ooast towns.
Russians occupied Loubnia. northeast
Ne Uxsok pass.
~ April So -British announced destruction
~ eight German submarines within week
10y mines and net traps.
May 1-British torpedo boat destroyer
and two German torpedo boats sunk In
Stnght in North sea.
(" American tank steamer Gulflight tor