Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-11
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR

1
plain mobilization of Russian troops.
| German Reserve officers called out,
July 31-General Russian mobiliza-
| ton ordered. Stock markets the world
over close their doors.
Aug. 1-Germany declared war on
Russia.
Aug. 3-Germany declared war on
France and Belgium. German troops
entered Belgium and took possession
OF Arion, a town.
Aug. 4-England declared war on
Germany. Congress of United States
voted relief for stranded Americans
abroad Montenegro declares war on
Austria.
Aug. s-Austria declared war on
Russia.
Aug. First British troops land on
French soil. U. S. S. Tennessee left
America with 100000 in gold for
stranded Americans. Germans occu-
pied Liege, although forts were hold
ing out.
Aug. 13-Belgians charged Germans
with atrocities.
Aug. 2o-Brussels occupied by
Germans.
Aug. 25-Louvain destroyed by
Germans. Austria declared war on
Japan.
Aug. 27-Allies retreat to tho
Somme.
Aug. 2s-British naval victory of
Helgoland when five German ships
were sunk.
Sept. 2-Austrians utterly defeat
ed by Russians at Lemberg after
seven-day battle.
Sept. S-French Government with
drawn from Paris to Bordeaux.
Sept. 1-German extreme right be-
gun retreat back across the Marne.
closely pressed by Allied forces.
| Sept. 12-Allies begin battle of the
Aisne.
Sept. 22-German U-boat U-9 sinks
British cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and
| Hogue.
Sept. 25-British Indian troops land
in Marseilles. Japanese troops &C.
supy Weihsen in Shantung.
Oct. 6-Russians force German re-
treat in East Prussia.
| Oct. 14-Allies occupy Ypres.
| Oct. 2S-American commission or
ganized to save starving Belgians.
Oct. 24-Germans driven out Of
Russia.
Oct. 26-Gens. De Wet and Beyers
start rebellion in South Africa.
| Oct. 2S-Assassin of Prince Ferdi-
| nand sentenced to 20 years imprison-
ment and four other accessories to
be hanged.
Oct. 29-Belgians force Germany
back across User by flooding the
country.
Nov. Herman squadron victor
| ious in naval battle with British off
Chill.
+ Nov 10-German cruiser Emden
driven ashore and burned by Aus
tralian cruiser Sydney, 200 casualties.
Nov 1s-Cruiser Tennessee, United
States Navy. FREQ on by Turks in
Smyrna Harbor
Dec. 1-Gen, De Wet captured in
South Africa
Dec. s-British squadron defeated
German cruisers Leipzig, Scharn-
horst, Gneisenau and Nuremberg.
sinking them off Falkland Islands.
| Dec. 20-British feet and airships
attack German port Of Cuxhaven.
Dec. 27-United States protested
stoppage by British of American
trade.
Jan. 25-German cruiser Bleucher
sunk by British in North Sea.
Feb. 2-Great Britain makes food
contraband of war
Feb. 3-Anglo-Frenc fleet destroys
four forts in Dardinelles.
Feb. 5-Germans attack with 1Oo.-
600 men and 100 batteries Of artillery
to break through Russian lines at
Borjmow failed.
Great Britain and Germany not to
! abuse flag nor fire on American
ships.
/ Feb. 1s-United States protested
against German threat Of blocade Of
British Isles
Feb. 21-United States steamship
Evelyn sunk by mine
| Feb. 23-United States steamship
Carib sunk by mine In North Sea.
| March 10-German auxiliary cruis-
er Prinz Eitel Friedrich put into
| Newport News and announced sink
ing Of American ship William P.
Frye.
March 1s-British battleships r.
resistable and Ocean and French
battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardi-
nelles
March 2s-Allied forces landed in
Gallipoli.
April s-Germany agreed to COM
pensate owners for sinking Of the
William p. Frye.
May british steamship Lusitan-
ia sunk by German submarine off
Kinsale, 1000 persons. including 100
Americans. lost.
May 12-British battleship Goliath
torpedoed and sunk In Dardinelles
by Turks; British submarine pen
etrates the straits and sank three
| Turkish ships.
May 1s-President Wilson sent note
to Germany demanding reparation
for American lives lost on Lusitania,
! and insisting that submarine attacks
| on vessels carrying noncombatants
cease.
June 1o-President Wilson sent Sec
ond note to Germany demanding
reparation for loss on Lusitania
June 15-Russians in weeks battle
drive Austro-German forces back
over Dniester with great losses and
capture Of much booty.
June 2s-Dominion liner Armenian
sunk by Germans and II Americans