The Cordova daily times., 1916-01-05
EUROPEAN WAR MOVEMENTS IN
 FIELD AND IN THE NAVAL ZONES
Campaign Against Russia on Its Eastward Sweep---COn. quest of Warsaw and
 Other FOrtresSes.
JANUARY.


 1. Battleship Sunk: British battleship Formidable sunk fin the English chan nel by German submarine or mine: over GOO drowned. 8. France: Germans attacked by the al- lies at Soissons, France. l2 France: High water in the Aisne compelled the allies to retreat. h. France: Allies withdrew south of the Aisne at Soissous, losing 5000 prison CTS and many guns. 22. France: Allies captured La Bassee, in France.
 A. Cruiser Sunk: In a German naval at tack on the English coast the German cruiser Bluecher was sunk, with about 7OO of ber crew, British cruiser Lion disabled.
 %. Submarines: German submarines att tackled British ships in the Irish sea. 800 miles from the nearest German naval base on the Belgian coast
 FEBRUARY. 3 Cruiser Lost: British cruiser Clan MacNaughton. with crew of 2S0 men, lost while cruising off the British coast
 Turkey: Turks, estimated at 1000 att tackled British guards along Suez ca- nal south of Ismailia. Egypt. { Naval War Zone: German admiralty declared a war zone in the English CndIlnel on ana utter r cb' To- [ East Prussia: Germans by forced march, turned the Russian flank at Johannisburg, in East Prussia, and forced the enemy to retreat hurried ly to Russian territory. IS. Austrian Front: Austrians reoccupied' Czernowitz, Bukovina, which the Rus sians captured early in the war. War Zone: The German war zone de- cree went Into effect warning neu- trals of danger in the English channel. %. Ship Evelyn Sunk: American mer- chant ship Evelyn mysteriously sunk in the British war zone in the Irish sea.
 24. Poland: Germans stormed and cap tured Przasnysz, Poland, an impor- tant Russian post north of Warsaw. The Dardanelles: Allied fleet lombard ed Turkish forts guarding the Darda- nelles strait. sea entrance to Constan- tinople.
 MARCH. 1. War Blockade England announced her intention to stop all ships to and from the seaportS of Germany. g. Submarine: Three British merchant vessels sunk by German submarines off the coast of England. 10 Cruiser Raider: German auxiliary Prince Eitel Friedrich made port at Newport News, Va. at the end of 5000 mile sea raid, having on board 342 passengers and crew of vessels sunk by her, including the American ship W. r. Frye. l2 Submarine: British. 1 French and Swedish merchant vessels torpedoed by German submarine C20 in British waters British auXilIary cruiser Bayamo sunk by a mine or German submarine off the coast of Scotland; about 200 Britons drowned. A. Naval: German cruiser Dresden. which survived the battle of Falk- land Islands sunk in battle with British fleet near San Juan Fernan- dez island, off Chile. l6. British Blockade: Great Britain is sued a sweeping order in council cut ting of all outside trade with Ger many and refused to enter into an agreement with Germany to modify the war zone blockade. l8 Naval: British battlesnips Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bou- vet sunk by mines during a naval at tack in the Dardanelles. 22 Fall of Przemysl: The Austrian for tress of PrZemysl, in Galicia. surren- dered to the Russian army after a gallant and prolonged defense.
 APRIL. 6 Naval: British battleship Lord Nel- son destroyed by Turks in Darda- nelles strait.
 l6 Aerial Warfare: German airships dropped bombs near London in day light.
 q Western Front: Germans captured the heights of Les Eparges on the Mouse line and recaptured Hart mannsweilerkopf. in the Vosges noun talns They repulsed an attack by the allies along the Ypres canal with asphyxiating gas and crossed this bar Tier to the west side. 8 Dardaneles: Allied troops landed on the shore of the Dardanelles under fire from the Turkish guns- G Submarine: French steamer Leon Gambetta torpedoed by an Austrian submarine in the strait of Otranto 500 seamen drowned. 90 Belgium: German artillery at Nieu- port, Belgium. bombarded Dunkirk. on the French channel coast infticting casualties at 2 mile range.
 MAY. | Lusitania: The Cunard liner Lusita- nia sailed from New York for Liver pool on her hapless voyage. Submarine: American steamer Gulhight from Port Arthur, Tex, to Liverpool, England, torpedoed off Scilly islands. The captain was killed; the vessel and 8 of the crew saved. T. Lusitania Sunk: The Lusitana was torpedoed and sunk off Kinsale, Mum ster coast, Ireland. There were 2,lQi persons on board, of whom 1,100, in- cluding about 100 Americans, were lost.
 Submarine: British battleship Goliath torpedoed in the Dardanelles with loss of 500 lives. IA Italy: The Italian cabinet resigned on account of the war pressure. Galicia: AIstro-German recaptured Ja- roslav on the west bank of San river, Galicia, forcing the Russians to hur- riedly abandon the Carpathian noun tains.
 4 Italy: The king of Italy declared war on Austria Hungary. having previous ly denounced the treaty of alliance with the Teutonic powers, Clash of troops on the frontier. 3. Italy: Austrian navy and airships at tackled Italy's coast. Italian troops