The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-01-14
EUROPEAN WAR

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. 10.-I.ille evacuated by Germans
and occupied by British.
Jan. 17.-Russians stormed southern
Carpathian pass and entered Transyl-
vania
Jan. 19-six German zeppelins raided
the Norfolk coast, dropping bombs in
Yarmouth. Sandrngham. Kings Lynn.
Conner. Sherringham and Beeston. caus-
ing heavy damage and some loss Of life.
Jan. cf-GermaA armored cruiser Blue
cher sunk and two battle cruisers Grip
pied by Vice Admiral Beatty's squadron
in running fight in North sea.
Jan. c6.-Austro-H Hungarian forces occu-
pied Kielce, Russian Poland.
Jan. 27.-Austrians drove Russians from
Uzsol1 pass in Carpathians.
Feb. 1.-French torpedo boa sunk Off
Nieuport
Feb. 2-Anglo- French fleet destroyed
four forts in the Dardanelles.
Feb. 4.-Germany declared waters
around British ISL s a war zone.
Feb. 6.-Russians crossed River lwlsa,
penetrating German front west OF War
saw.
Feb. s.-Germans violently bombarded
Scissors, setting it afire.
Feb. 10.-Russians repulsed Austro-Ger-
mans in Carpathians but were driven back
in Bukowina.
British held cargo OF food ship VIII
helmina
Feb. 11.-United 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 Hag by British vessels.
Germans evacuated Lodz. but drove the
Russians out of East Prussia.
Feb. T.-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
Reg;n, damaged British collier and three
British merchant steamers.
Reims bombarded by Germans. 20 ci-
villains killed.
Feb 25-Allied fleets reduced Turkish
forts at entrance of Dardanelles.
Feb 2s.-Dacia seized by French cruiser
and taken to Brest
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against shipment of all commodities into
Germany.
Hamburg American officials indicted in
New York by federal grand jury for con-
spiracy to defraud the United States.
March 5.-Austrians evacuated Czerno-
witz. Bukowina.
March S-Zeppelin airship LIS de-
stroyed near Tirlemont and II of crew
killed.
March 10.-American ship William P.
Frye sunk by German cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich. Prinz Eitel at Newport News
with captain and crew of Frye.
March 11.-German submarine U-12 sunk
by British torpedo boat Ariel.
British took Neuve Chapelle.
Germans abandoned Augustowo Po-
land.
March 15.-British order in council shut
off all trade with Germany. ordering tech
nical blockade
German cruiser Dresden sunk off Falk-
land islands by British warships Glasgow
and Kent and Japanese converte cruiser
Drama.
March 18-American sanitary commits
sion organized for work In Serbia
British battleships Irresistible and Ocean
and French battleship Bouvet sunk by
mines in the Dardanelles.
March 22-Austrian fortress of Przem-
wi surrendered to Russians.
Turks massacred thousands of Chris
tians at Urumiah. Persia.
March 23.-Germans In Ghent executed
Deisians as speS
Germans uroVe Hussiahs out OF East
Frussia.
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