The Holly chieftain., 1916-01-07
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF 1915
Progress of the Great European War ReewedNotab Occur
rences and Achievements Outside the Zone of Bae-Chron
oogicaI Record Of Outstanding Incidents of
Year lust Closed
take Brest-Litovsk.

2S.-Germans take Olita
Se.-Austro-German cross the Zlota-Lipa.
SI-Pegoud. first man to loop the loop in
aeroplane. killed in air battle with Ger
mans.
Sept. 1.-Ambassador Won Bernstorff gives
Secretary of State Lansing written as
surances submarines Will respect lives of
noncombatants. Germans take Lutsk.
Germany announces she has taken l.
100. 600 Russian prisoners since May 2.
3.-Teutons take Grodno.
4.-American steamship Hesperian tor
pedoed. two Americans killed and "A
7-S.-Zeppelins raid England. Grand Duke
Nicholas deposed by car and sent to
Caucasus
Scar of Russia takes personal COM
mand of his armies. Germans take mile
of Argonne trenches.
S9.-Second Zeppelin raid on England in
"a hours.
9.-U. S. demands recall Of Doctor Dumba.
Austro-Hungarian ambassador. Com
mander of submarines says Ar.bic
turned to attack her and he then tor
pedoed her
ANGLO French financial commission
lands in New York.
n.-Zeppeiins raid London.
l5.-Germans take PinSk
l6-$15 COO. 900 In American meat conflscated
by British prize courts. Germans take
| 19-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
hsorT Freach and faKs
square miles and 5000 prisoners in
Champagne; British less successful due
to bunglng. Greek army mobliZes.
26.-Commisson on Armenian atrocities
ANNOUNCES half a million Christians have
been killed.
$500 100000 U. S. loan to allies an
| nounced Internal explosion destroys
Italian ship Benedetto Brin in Brindisi
harbor; 324 killed.
30.-F>rench 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
| bard German communications.
4-french and British land troops in Sa-
ioniti Germans estimate allied loss
In western September battle at 10000:
| 6.-Bulgaria sends ultimatum to Serbia
Zaimis new Greek premier.
| 7.-Great Teuton offensive against Ser
~ bia starts; star Russ Russians bombard yarna.
n.-Bulgaria inyades Serbia at three
points.
12.-Germans take Illukst
| 13.-Zeppelins lombard London. Fifty
| raid on London
14.-Greece renounces her treaty with
| Serbia.
16.-Great Britain declares war on Bull
garia,
1s.-sir Edward Carson quits British cab
met. General Ian Hamilton deposed as
| British Dardanelles commander. French
and British attack Strumnitza, Bulgaria
2.--Bulgarians take Vranja. and cut Nish-
Saloniki railroad. Italy declares war on
| Bulgaria.
21.-Great Britain offers Greece Cyprus If
she will assist Serbia. Russians take
! CzernoWtz and attack Germans at
| Mitau. Bulgarians occupy Kumanova.
22-Minister Whitlock's report shows
Miss Cavell. English nurse. was rushed
| to death in Brussels by firing squad de-
| spite American and Spanish appeals.
Russians take $500 prisoners and attack
| Baronowitschi
| 23.-Russians take 1850 prisoners north of
| Tarnopol
24.-Bulsarans take Krupili.
25:-Bulsarans- take Uskub Germans
| 2S.-Viviani ministry falls. BRAND forms
new cabinet. King Georges horse falls
upon him while inspecting his army in
| France.
26-Bulgarans and Teutons effect q juno
| ton.
Nov. 1.-Germans take Kragujevac.
| 3.-First of Germany's no-meat days.
| 4.-Zaimis cabinet resigns.
6.-Bulgarians take Nish. Germans push
Russians across Strpa river
IaAustrians sink Italian liner :Ancona
POS killed. II 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.
| 1O-Austrian submarine sinks Italian lin
| er Ancona, seven naturalized Americans
12-Winston S. Churchill leaves British
cabinet to go to the front. Greek
| chamber dissolved.
| 15.-Twenty-eight killed in Austrian air
raid on Verona.
| 21-Germans take Cacak Serbian tempo
rary capital.
22-serbians begin retreat into Montene-
| gro.
24.-German 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 manifests 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
take Monastir.
4.-Henry Ford sails from New York in
amateur effort to end the war. $1,000
| Teuton troops rushed to Rutschuk on
| the Danube to meet Russian threat
| 5.-British admit Mesopotamian expedi-
ton has been defeated and has retreat
ed.
6.-Bulsarians attack French and British
| In Serbia with great energy.
clares In reichstag allies must seek
peace
| R.-Stern note to Austria on Ancona sink
ing is made public.
| 13.-Germany announces two Franco
British divisions have been annihlated
in retreat to Grecian soil.
| 16.-Italy admits destroyer Intrepido and
transport Re Umberto sunk by Aus
| trians
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