The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-01-14
REPORT OF 1915
THROUGHOUT WORLD
Chronology of the Year, Giving the
Most Important Events.

deaths of Americans resulting from sub
marine attacks and give guarantees
against repetition of offense.
May 12.-British battleship Goliath tor
pedoed In Dardanelles. 800 lost.
May l3-President Wilson's note to Ger
many cabled
May 17.-zeppelin attacked English
coast towns and was driven off and Grip
pied by aeroplanes.
May 21.-French won entire Lorette hill
north of Arras after six months Of con-
tinuous fighting
May 22.-Russan battleship Pantelei-
mon sunk In Black sea with Loo men.
May 23.-Italy declared war against
Austria Hungary.
May 2o.-Italy invaded Austria at head
Of Gulf of Venice, Selling four towns.
British warship Triumph sunk by tor
pedo in Dardaneles
May 26.-American steamer Nebraskan.
from Liverpool without cargo, struck and
crippled by torpedo off Irish coast.
Italy invaded the Trentlno.
May N.-British battleship Majestic de-
stroyed by torpedo In Dardanelles
British auxiliary steamship Princess
Irene blown up in Sheerness harbor. 430
lives lost.
May So.-German reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
May alderman ZeppelIns made raid
on London
June s.-Przemysl recaptured by Ger
mans and Austrians.
June 11.-Italians took Gradisca and
other important towns.
June 15.-Austro-G Germans. advancing
on Lemberg. captured Mosciska
Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
ruhe. killing 27 persons.
Zeppelin raided English northeast coast.
killing IL persons.
June 16.-Russians driven over Galician
border.
Germany called 100000 young trained
men to the colors.
June 2l-Austro-Germans took Rawa
Ruska from Russians
General De Wet found guilty of trea-
son.
June. 2s.-Lemberg captured by Austro-
Germans.
French took German work called the
Labyrinth. west of Lens.
June 2S.-Italy broke diplomatic rela-
tions with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
bJ Germans. 20 Americans lost
June 30-Russians began retreat from
Vistula river In Poland.
July Twenty allied aeroplanes ra1ded
Bruges. destroying docks.
". S. navy department seized German
wirelesc plant at Sayville, L. l., for
breaches of neutrality.
July 5.-Gernany'o reply to American
note on submarine warfare unyielding in
most important particulars.
July 9.-German forces in German
Southwest Africa surrendered to General
Botha.
British liner Orduna. bringing Ameri-
cans homo from Europe. attacked by
German submarine with torpedo and
shells.
July 1s.-Italian cruiser Giuseppe Carl
baldi sunk by Austrian submarine.
July 22.-American reply to Germany.
reaff1rming former stand, sent to Berlin.
Terrible massacres of Armenians by
Turks reported.
July 25.-American steamer Leelanaw
sunk by German submarine; crew saved
July 27.-Austrians made air raid on
Verona.
July 3O.-Austrians occupied Lublin.
July 31.-Leyland liner Iberian sunk by
German torpedo boat; seven of crew
killed.
Aug 2.-Mitau, capital of Courland.
taken by Germans
Aug 5.-Great Britain fatty rejected
American contentious against blockade.
Aug. 5.-Warsaw occupied by the Ger
mans
Aug. s-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug 9.-British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
Turkish batleship Kheyr- Ed-Din Bar
barossa sunk by submarine in Darda-
nelles.
Germans occupied Praga.
Zeppelins raided English east coast.
killing Is; one Zeppelin destroyed.
Aug. 10.-U. 8 rejected Austro- -HunEar-.
ian views on shipment OF war supplies
Aug 11-British submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and
Goeben
Aug. 14-British troopship Royal Ed
ward sunk by submarine In Aegean sea:
800 lost.
Aug. 17.-Germans took fortress OF Kov-
Greek cabinet resigned and venizelos
was invited to form new ministry.
u 8. accepted German offer OF compen-
sation In Frye case
Zeppelins raided British east vcoast.
killing ten civilians.
Aug. 1s-White Star liner Arabic. Liv-
erpool for Boston. torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine OF Irish coast; 46 lost.
Including two Americans
Aug. 20 0--German feet engaged Russian
fleet in Gulf of Riga. each side losing sew
eral vessels.
Germans took Russian fortress of Novo-
georgievsk
Aug 21.-Italy declared war on Turkey
German cruiser sunk by British sub
marine in Baltic sen.
British eeaplane sank loaded Turkish
troopship In Sec of Marmora
Germans captured Bielsk. Russia
Aug 23.-Germanr occupied Russian
fortress Of Ossowetz.
Aug. 25-Germans took Biaiystok and
Brest-Litovsk.
Aug. &-Germans captured Russian
fortress O. Olita.
Germany declared tho sinking Of the
Arabic II done by German submarine
vas decidedly condemned by the German
and full repAration would BE-
made.
Aug. n-Adolphe Pegoud. notec French |
aviator. killed In action.
Germanr took Russian fortress Of
Lutsk.
Sept 2-Germa6 oA to submit Lu-
sitania and ANog knsation clsims |
to The Hague