The Spectator., 1916-01-07
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF 1915
Progress of the Great European War RevewedNotab Occur rences and Achievements Outside the Zone of Bae-Chron oogica Record of Outstanding Incidents of
 Year Just Closed.
25,-Germans take Brest-LItovsk.

25.-Germans take Brest-Litovsk. 2S.-Germans take Olita. 29.-Austro- German cross the Zlota-Lipa. Sl.-Pegoud, first man to loop the loop In aeroplane. killed in air battle with Ger mans.
 Sept. 1.-Ambassador von BernstorfT gives Secretary of State Lansing written as- surances submarines will respect lives or noncombatants. Germans take Lutsk. Germany announces she has taken l- 100000 Russian prisoners since May q 3.-Teutons take Grodno. 4'-American steamship Hesperian tor. pedoed, two Americans killed and A others. | 7-S.-zeppelns raid England Grand Duke Nicholas deposed by czar and sent to Scar of Russia takes personal com mand of his armies Germans take mile of Argonne trenches. S-9.-Second Zeppelin raid on England in 24 hours.
 s.-U S demands recall of Doctor Dumba. Austro-H Hungarian ambassador. Com
 turned to attack her and he then tor pedoed her.
 1o:-Anglo- French financial commission lands in New York. 11.-Zeppelins raid London. ] 15.-Germans take Pinsk. l6.-s15 GOO, ,0o0 in American meat confiseated by British prize courts. Germans take | 1s.-Germans take Wilma. 22.-French aviators Lombard royal pal ace in Stuttgart. Bulgaria orders mo- | 25.-Great Franco British offensive starts in Champagne and Artois. After most | history. French charge and take ie square miles and 25.0oo prisoners in Champagne: British less successful due | to bunglng. Greek army moblizes. | 26.-Commission on Armenian atrocities announces half a million Christians have been killed.
 nounced. Internal explosion destroys | Italian ship Benedetto Brin in Brindisi harbor; 324 killed. | 3o.-French announce Germans have lost 10000 in four days in West | Oct. 3-Russia demands Bulgaria dismiss | all Teuton officers from her army in A | hours: French air fleet of 65 flyers bonn 1 bard German communications. | 4.-French and British land troops fin Sa-
 loniki. Germans estimate allied loss
 in western September battle at lso.oco 6-Bulgaria sends ultimatum to Serbia Zaimis new Greek premier. lI-Great Teuton offensive against Ser
 bia starts. Russians lombard Narna. | l0.-Austro-Germans capture Belgrade. u.-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three 1 points.
 I2.-Germans take Illukst,- | l3.-Zeppelins lombard London. Fifty
 five killed and IA injured in Zeppelin | raid on London.
 4.-Greece renounces her treaty with Serbia
 16,-Great Britain declares war on Bull | garia.
 | 1S.-Sir Edward Carson quits British cab l
 British Dardanelles commander. French l and British attack Strumnitza, Bulgaria 20.-Bulgarians take Vranja and cut Nish-
 Saloniki railroad. Italy declares war on l Bulgaria. ..
 21.-Great Britain offers Greece Cyprus If
 she will assist Serbia. Russians take
 Szernowitz and attack Germans at 22.-Minister Whitlock's report shows
 Miss Cavell English nurse. was rushed
 to death in Brussels by firing squad de-
 ita nd Sh Ia
 Russians take S'5oo prisoners and attack | Baronowitscht.
 23.-Russians take 7.5OO prisoners north of
 Tarnopol.
 24-Bulgarians take Krupili. t25-Bulgarians take Uskub. Germans
 storm llluxt near Dvinsk. | 2S-Viviani ministry falls Briand forms
 new cabinet. King Georges horse falls
 upon him while inspecting his army in
 France.
 26-Bulgarians and Teutons effect a june Nov. L-Germans take KraguJevac. S.-First of Germany's no-meat days. | 4.-Zalmis cabinet resigns.
 6.-Bulgarians take Nish. Germans push
 Russians across Stripa river.
 I-Austrians sink Italian liner Ancona:
 205 killed Il Americans. venizelos hav-
 ing overturned the Zamais cabinet.
 Skouloudis becomes head of new Greek
 cabinet: U. s. note protesting at Brit
 aims blockade, made public
 10-Austrian submarine sinks Italian lln- CT Ancona. seven naturalized Americans
 killed.
 12-Winston S Churchill leaves British
 cabinet to so to the front. Greek
 chamber dissolved
 15-Twenty-eight killed in Austrian air
 raid on Verona.
 21-Germans take Cacak Serbian tempo
 rary capital.
 ?2-Serbans begin retreat into Montene-
 gro.
 alderman papers full of talk of peace. 29-Germany announces the successful
 completion of her campaign against
 Serbia.
 Dec. 2.-Dr Karl Buenz. managing d.
 rector of the Hamburg American line.
 found guilty of falsifying mnnifests in
 New York. and sentenced to two years
 in Atlanta prison. | 3-United States demands recall of Cap
 tains Boy-Ed and Won Papen German | military and naval attaches Bulgarians
 take Monastir.
 4-Henry Ford sails from New York in
 amateur effort to end the war. 5000 | Teuton troops rushed to Rutschuk on | the Danube to meet Russian threat 5.-British admit Mesopotamian eXped-
 tion has been defeated and has retreat
 ed.
 6.-Bulgarian attack French and British | In Serbia with great energy. 9.-Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg de-
 clares In reichstag allies must seek | peace.
 12.-Stern note to Austria on Ancona sink
 ing is made public | B-Germany announces two Franco
 British divisions have been annihlated
 in retreat to Grecian soil.