The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-01-07

jan british battleship Formidable
sunk by German submarine in the Eng
lish channel. with 579 OF crew.
Jan 5.-Russians annihilated Ninth
Turkish army corps and routed First and
Tenth corps In the Caucasus.
Russians forced Uzsok pass in the
Carpathians.
Jan 1O.-I.ille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by British.
Jan. H.--Russians stormed southern
Carpa;hian pass and entered Transyl-
vania.
Jan. 19-six German Zeppelins raided
the Norfolk coast. dropping bombs I'm
Yarmouth. Sandringham. Kings Lynn,
Conner. Sherringham and Beeston. caus-
Ing heavy damage and some loss OF life.
Jan. Alderman armored cruiser Blue
cher sunk and two battle cruisers Grip
pied by Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron
In running fight in North sea.
Jan. 26-Austro-Hungarian forces occu-
pied Kielce. Russian Poland.
jan N.-Austrians drove Russians from
Cxsok pass In Carpathians
Feb. French torpedo boa. sunk OF
Newport
Feb 2-Anglo-Frenc feet destroyed
four forts in the Dardanelles.
Feb. 4.-Germany declared waters
around British isles war zone.
Feb. 6.-Russians crossed River Rawka,
penetrating German front west OF War
saw.
scissors. setting II afire.
Feb. io.-Russians repulsed Austro-Ger-
mans In Carpathians but were driven back
In Bskowina
British held cargo OF food ship WILL
helmina
Feb. u--United States warned Germany
against destroying American vessels or
ftyA 90 L.
shipping. and warned Great Britain OF
the danger to American interests In the
Use Of American flag by British vessels
Germans evacuated Lodz. but drove the
Russians out OF Fast Prussia.
Feb. n.-Germany replied unfavorably
TO American warning not TO sink Ameri-
can ships. and Great Britain refused to
modify its shipping orders.
Germany began blockade Of England by
sinking two vessels
Feb. 23-German blockaders sank
American steamer Carib, Norwegian ship
Regin. damaged British collier and three
British merchant steamers
Reims bombarded by Germans 20 CT
VILLAINS killed.
Feb 25-Allied fleets reduced Turkish
forts at entrance OF Dardanelles
Feb 2S.-Dacia seized by French cruiser
and taken TO Brest
March 2--Great Britain laid embargo
against shipment OF all commodities into
Germany.
New York by federal grand jury for con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
March 5.-Austrians evacuated Czerno-
WITT. Bukowina
March s.-zeppelin airship LIS de-
stroyed near Tiriemont and II Of crew
killed
March 1o.-American ship William p.
~,
Friedrich. Prinz Eitel at Newport News
with captain and crew OF Frye
March n.-German submarine U-12 sunk
by British torpedo boat Ariel
British took Neuve Chapelle.
Germans abandoned Augustowo. Po-
lard.
March 15.-British order I'm council shut
of all trade with Germany. ordering tech
meal blockade
German cruiser Dresden sunk off Falk-
land islands by British warships Glasgow
and Kent and Japanese convertec cruiser
Drama
March ls-American sanitary commits
sion organized for work I'm Serbia
British battleships Irresistible and Ocean
and French battleship Bouvet sunk by
mines In the Dardanelles
March 2.-Austrian fortress OF Prem
wi surrendered TO Russians
Turks massacred thousands of Chris
tians at Urumah. Persia.
March 23-Germans In Client executed
i Belgians spies.
Germans drove Russians out OF East
Prussia
Allies landed force on GaIlpon PENN
sula
March T-Russians forced way through
Carpathians into Hungary.
March 2S.-Twenty-day battle in Cham
payne country Won by French. Germans
losing so COO
German submarine sank British steam
ers Aguilar and Falaba. about 40 lives
being lost
April 4-Russians cleared Beskid range
of Austrians
Turkish cruiser Mejidieh sunk by Rus
sian mine.
April s.-Germany agreed 10 paw for
sinking American ship William p FRYE
April l0.-Steamer Harpalyce first re-
lief ship Of New York TO Belgium. sunk
in North by torpedo or mine
April q United States replied To Ger
man governments criticism OF its for
eign policies. denying allegations and re-
jecting suggestions that expectation OF
arms be prohibited.
April 26-French cruiser Leon Gambet
ia sunk by Austrian torpedo. $50 lives
lost
April &.-German air raiders dropped
incendiary bombs on five English east
Russians occupied Loubnia. northeast
OF Uzsok pass
April 81 British announced destruction
OF eight German submarines within week
by mines and net traps.
May british torpedo boat destroyer
and two German torpedo boats sunk in
fight in North sea
American tank steamer Gulfiight tor
pedoed by Germans OF Scllly islands, cap
tain and two seamen lost
May e-Austro-German forces occupied
Tarnow.
May I--Cunard liner Lusitania torpedoed
and sunk by Germans OF coast OF Ireland
with loss az 1.s6 lives. including lis
Americans; among the latter A. q. Van
derbilt. Ebert Hubbard. Chas. Frohman.
Chas. Klein and Charles Plamondon-
May s.-British destroyer Maori sunk
by mine.
Russian naval base OF Libau captured
Sy Germans