Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-31
OF WAR
BROUGHT UP TO DATE
1914.
June.

1914.
June.
2S-ArchGuke Ferdinand and Duchess
of Hohenberg assassinated at SaraJeV0'
Bosnia, by Serbian student, Princip
July.
23-Austria, In note to Serbia de-
mands punishment Of assassins and sup
preston of Pan-Serbianism.
27-England appeals for mediation
Austria, Serbia, Russia mobilize.
2S-Austria declares war on Serbia;
Germany mobilizes.
29-Austrians lombard Belgrade.
30-Germany sends ultimatum 20
Russia.
3l-Worlds stock markets close.
August.
1-Germany declares war on Russia.
3-Germany declares war on France
and Belgium. German troops start on
way to France through Belgium and
Luxembourg. Italy proclaims neutrality.
England declares war on Germany;
Germans attack Liege.
Kitchener appointed secretary for
war: Montenegro declares war on Aus
tria.
austria declares war on Russia.
British sieze Togoland; first Brit
ish troops land in France.
SERBIA declares war on Germany.
11-Germans penetrate into France at
Longwy; Montenegro declares war on
Germany; France on Austria.
12-England declares war on Austria.
20--Germans occupy Brussels; levy
$50, 000, 900 on inhabitants.
2S-Japanese lombard Tsingtau.
25-Austria declares war on Japan;
Germans destroy Louvain.
27-Allies retreat to Somme; Rus
SLAMS enter East Prussia.
28-British win naval battle in North
sea; five Germans ships sunk.
29-Austria declares war on Belgium.
3O-Germans take Amiens; allies re-
treat to Seine.
September.
2-Russians defeat Austrians at Lem
berg.
3-Paris government moves to Bor-
deaux; Russia occupies Lemberg.
4-Germans cross the Marine, toward
Paris.
5-England, France and Russia make
no-separate-peace agreement.
German retreat begins, at the
Marne, first big battle of the war.
22-German submarine U9 sinks Brit
ish cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue,
with loss of 1,422 lives, excluding off,
GERS.
26-Russians occupy Przemysl.
pathians.
October.
2-Serbians stop Austrians near the
Drina.
9-Russians advance to Lyck in East
Prussia: Germans take Antwerp.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS defeat $4,000 Aus
trians near Sarajevo; trial of Princip
begins.
14-AIlies occupy Ypres.
16-Germans occupy Ostend; rebels
defeated in South Africa.
17-German troops before Warsaw.
a3-Germans cross User; Russians in
great battle trying to hold Przemysl.
26-Generals De Wet and Beyers re-
volt in South Africa; routed.
2s-Princip, assassin of Archduke
Ferdinand, gets ten years; four accom-
plices sentenced to be hanged.
30-Russia declares state of war with
Turkey .
German squadron wins naval bat
tie with British off Chile.
5-Great Britain declares state Of
war with Turkey; Russians capture
Jeroslau, Galicia; Great Britain annexes
island of Cyprus; South African revolts
crushed; Serbia breaks relations with
Turkey. a.
Japanese capture kiauchau.
9-Germans surrender Tsinglau.
27-Austria admits evacuation of
Czernowitz, Bukowina.
December.
General De Wet captured.
2-Austrians capture Belgrade.
S-British fleet sinks four German
cruisers off Falkland islands.
14-Serbians occupy Belgrade.
16-Germans raid British coast towns,
killing ninety persons.
30-German airplanes raid Dunkirk,
killing fifteen, wounding thirtytwo.
1915.
January.
S-British reply to American note on
detention of neutral ships, claims right
25-German armored cruiser Bluecher
sunk in North sea in running fight with
British squadron. d,
February.
Great Britain makes all food ship
ments contraband.
3-Anglo-French fleet destroys four
forts in Dardanelles.
British defeat Turks north of
Suez; heavy German losses on east
front.
10-Russians abandon Czarnowitz
20-Allied fleet bombards DardanelIes
forts.
27-General Botha invades German
West Africa.
Great Britain declares blockade of
German coast.
10-Prinz EiteI Friedrich, German
raider, puts in at Newport News, and
announces sinking American ship Will
liam 2. Frye.
1S-British battleships Irresistible
and Ocean and French battleship Bou-
vet sunk in Dardanelles
22-Przemysl, Austrian fortress in
Galicia, surrenders
23-Allied troops landed in GaIIipoli,
Dardanerlcs.
April.
5-America demands PREPARATION from
Germany for sinking William P. Frye.
l1-Kronprinz Wilhelm. German raid
er arrives at Newport News.
May.
2-Austrians take 10000 Russian pris-
oEcTs.
British liner Lusitania sunk by
German submarine, LOO lost, including
100 Americans.
12--British battleship Goliath sunk
in DardanelleS. British suhnoa riua at MIS-