Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16
RECORD OF 1915 THROUGHOUT WORLD Chronology of the Year, Giving the Most important Events
 in All Countries. PROGRESS OF THE GREAT WAR Sinking of tusitanla and the Teutenle Drives Through Poland and Ser oia. tne ogtstsnoino Features
 Prominent Persons Who
 Passed Away.
 COMPLIED BY E. W. PACKARD.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT WAR
EUROPEAN WAR

eQLk by GeTnGL slbnafltS lN me EIs- nsa channel. with 57s of crew. Jan 5-Russ'ans anniIlate1 Ninth Turkish army corps and routed First and Tenth corps In the CaucasIs- Russians forced Uzsok pass in the Csrpathisns
 Jan. I0-I.lue evacuated by Germans and occupied by British.
 Ian. I7-RussiAns storrned southern csTpathian pass and entered Transyi- vsn!a-
 Jan ls-slx German ZeTpelirs rai5ed the Norfolk coast dropping bombs In Yarmouth. Ssni-iRsham. Kings Lynn. Cor.er. Sherringhaln and Beeston. caus- ing heavy damage and some loss of lie Jan Alderman armorec cruiser Blue cher sunk and two battle cruisers crip- pied by Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron in running HGht !n North sea Jan g -Austro- Hungarlan forces occu- pied Kieice. Russian Poland. Jan. @s.-Au=triars drove Russians from rZs7k pass ir Carpathians
 Feb. i-French torpedo boat sunk o6 Nieuport
 Feb. 2-Anglo- French feet destroyed foHr forts in the Dardanelles. Feb. 4-Gernary declared waters around British isles a war zone Feb. s-Russians crossed River RswGs. penetrating German front west of War sa~.
 Fea s-Gernsus violently homsar.ed soissons setting ii sr-e
 Feb. O-Russians repulsed Austro-Ger- mans Tn CHrparhlans but were driven back Tn Bukowina
 British held cargo of food ship VII heln:ina
 Feb. u-Unlted States warned Germany against destroying American vessels or lives of American citizens in attacking 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 East Prussia.
 Feb IT-Germsny replied untavorah!y to American warning not to sink Aneri- can ships. and Great Britain refused To modify il. shipping orders.
 Germany began blockade of England by sinking two vessels
 Feb. Alderman blockaders sank American steamer Csrib. Norwegian ship Begin. damaged British collier and three British merchant steamers.
 Relms bomharded by Germans. 2 ci- williams killed.
 Feb S-Allied fleets reduced Turkish forts at entrance of Dardaneiles. Feb es-Dscia seized by French cruiser and taken to Brest
 March 2-Great Britain laid embargo against shiprnea: of all commodities into Germany.
 Hamburg American officials indicted in New York by federal grand jury for con sp,racy to defrsud the United States. March 5.-AustriaHs evacuated Czerno- wi,z. Bukowina-
 March s-Zeppelin sirshIp Is de. stroyed near Tirlemont and r of crew Killed
 March l0l-American ship William P Frye sunk by German cruiser Prinz Eite Friedrich PrfnE Eitel 6; Newport New. with captain and crew O: Frye
 March Alderman submarine U-I2 sunk by British torpedo boat Ariel
 British took NeIve Chspelle.
 Germans abandoned Augus:owo. Pc srd
 March B-British order in council shut or sii trade with Germany. ordering tech, niral bIocksds.
 German cruiser Dresden sunk of Falk hand islands by British varships Glasgow and Kent and Japanese converted cruisei Drama
 March is-Amer'can sanitary commi. sion organized for work Tn Serbia
 British bsttl-sh!ps Irresistible and ocear snd French battleship Bouyet sunk bI mines In the Dsrtanelies-
 March 2 Y-AUstrisn fortress Of Przem yEl surrendered to Russians.
 Turks rnassaCr-d thousands Of Chris pans at t'rumIsh. Persia.
 Nsrch 2 s-Germans in GEent executed r 3elgians as spies.
 Germans drove Russians out Of Eas Prussia
 Allies landed force on GaIlipon benin March N.-Russlsns forced way througl Carpsihians into Hungary.
 March 2s-Twen-y-day battle in Cham pzsHe country won by French. German losing 5000.
 German submarine sank British steam @r- aEuiIar and Falaba. sboat 10 live being lost
 aprfi .-Russisns cleared Beskid rang of AUstrians-
 sisr mine
 Apr.l s.-Gs-rnany agreed to pay fo .inEinz American ship Wpaam P. Frye April io-Steanaer Harpalyce, first re lief ship If New York to Belgium, sun ir Sorth sea by torpedo or mine.
 apr!i 2 United States replied 10 Ger man soyernmenrs criticism Of its for eign policies. denying allegations and re jerting suzr-~tions that expcrtation o arms b. prohibited
 April % French cruiser Leon Ganbe' "a sunk by Austrian torpedo. sS2 live lost
 iucrrd,sry bombs on five English eas
 R,.stans occupied LoubnIa. northes. ef Uysok pass
 ss-,i 9s British snnoun~ed d~siructio O, Q yttt German submarines within zee b. mines srd nFf traps
 May T. British torpedo boat destroys erf tgo German torpedo bOats suak srst ID North sea.
 Eu.rt~ar tank steamer Guliight to ,,@ao-h by Germans or Scilly isia nds. cal tain and TWO sesmsn lost
 May Ausfro-German forces occupie Tsrnow
 May --Cuusrd liner Lusitsnis torpedos and sunk oy G-rfnans oG coast Of lrelar win srss of l.os lives. including l Irsr~ans. among the latter A. c. Val derettt Ebert Hubbard. Chas. Frohma Ch.s Klein and Charles Planondon-
 May s-Brfish destroyer Maori sur ty mtB-
 Russian naval base of LiSRu csptur' by Germans