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Various - The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915



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*Chronology of the War*

*Showing Progress of Campaigns on All Fronts and Collateral Events to
and Including Oct. 15, 1914.[A]*


*CAMPAIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE*

July 21--Situation threatens European war; fear that Russia will aid
Servia.

July 23--Austria sends ultimatum to Servia; Austrian Army Corps
mobilized at Temesvar, and fleet gathers at Semlin.

July 24--Russia will ask Austria to extend time for Servia's reply to
ultimatum; Austria will brook no interference.

July 25--Servia's reply to ultimatum unsatisfactory; Russian Army
mobilizing.

July 26--Servian Army mobilizing; Russian warning to Germany.

July 27--Austrian Army invades Servia; Servians blow up bridge across
Danube; report of mobilizing of Montenegrin Army; Austria denounces
Servia's reply to ultimatum; Cossacks fire on Germans at frontier.

July 28--Austria declares war on Servia and Emperor issues manifesto;
fighting along River Drina; Russian forces mass on eastern border.

July 29--Russian intervention imminent; Austrians bombard Belgrade;
Servians blow up bridges at Semlin.

July 30--Kaiser calls on Russia to halt mobilization within twenty-four
hours; war activity in Warsaw; Austrians repulsed at Losnitza;
Montenegrins occupy Cattaro.

July 31--Russians blow up railway bridge on Vienna-Warsaw line; Servians
check Austrians at Semendria and on Bosnian frontier; France replies to
German note about Russia; Czar, Kaiser, and King George may yet arrange
peace; following Council of Ministers at Peterhof, Russia sends no reply
to German note and calls out reserves; France and England still trying
to adjust matters between Russia and Austria; Russian mobilization
order; Austria orders military and naval mobilization.

Aug. 1--Germany declares war on Russia, Kaiser signs mobilization order;
German patrol near Prostken fired on by Russians.

Aug. 2--Russians cross German frontier and seize railroad station:
Montenegrin King signs mobilization order.

Aug. 3--Germans seize three cities in Russian Poland; Czar calls
Russians to war; fighting on Drina River.

Aug. 4--Russians defeated in attack on Memel; Serbs defeat Austrians
near Semendria; Turkey mobilizes.

Aug. 5--Austria declares war on Russia; Russian patrols raid East
Prussia; Servian flag hoisted at Delarme, Austria; Belgrade bombarded;
Germans repulse Russian cavalry at Soldau and Neidenberg.

Aug. 7--Montenegro declares war against Austria; Austrians bombard
Belgrade; Servians annihilate Austrian regiment.

Aug. 8--Servia declares war on Germany; fighting between Germans and
Russians at Eydtkuhnen; German force lands in Finland; Austrians
evacuate Visigard; Austrians burn Russian villages near Rumanian border.

Aug. 9--Russians repulsed by Germans near Tilsit; Germans capture motor
cars carrying money to Russia; Russians enter Austria; Austrians occupy
town and customs station of Andrejew, Russian Poland; Turkey mobilizing
[Transcriber: original 'mobolizing'] on Bulgarian frontier.

Aug. 10--Montenegrins occupy Scutari; Belgrade again bombarded; Servians
penetrate Bosnia; Austrians bombard Antivari; Germans concentrate on
Russian frontier.

Aug. 11--Russians guard Finland; Russian cavalry routs Austrians in
Galicia; Italy demands explanation from Austria of bombardment of
Antivari; Russians advance into Germany.

Aug. 12--German attempt to reoccupy Eydtkuhnen unsuccessful; Austrians
and Germans defeated on Russian frontier; Russian visitors to German
health resorts tell of ill-treatment; Servians and Montenegrins advance
on Bosnia; Prince George of Servia wounded.

Aug. 13--Russians capture Sokal; Cossacks annihilate two
Austrian-cavalry regiments; German troops before Kalisz threaten to
shoot every tenth inhabitant if further resistance is shown.

Aug. 14--Russians defeat Austrians on the Dniester; unrest in Turkey.

Aug. 15--Berlin reports capture of 23 Russian Generals and Admirals by
Germans; Greece wants explanation from Turkey of concentration of troops
near border; Russians raid East Prussia; fighting between Austrians and
Servians on the Save and the Danube; Turkish Ambassador says Turkey was
not hostile in buying German cruisers.

Aug. 16--Germans fail to retake Eydtkuhnen.

Aug. 17--Russia demands of Turkey unrestricted use of Dardanelles;
prisoners a problem for both sides; Russian Army marches on Austria and
Germany; minor engagements on frontier; Servians check Austrians'
advance; Greece hears that Turkish troops are approaching and sends
warning that corresponding measures will be taken.

Aug. 18--Servia reports Austrian defeat near Saboc.

Aug. 19--Austrians defeated by Serbs at Shabats; Russians report victory
over Austrians in Padolia; Germans report capture of Russians in East
Prussia; Russians driven out of Germany; Italian refugees complain of
German outrages.

Aug. 20--Russians occupy Gumbinnen and Lyck in East Prussia; Austrians
occupy Miechow, Russian Poland.

Aug. 21--Serbs defeat Austrians in four days' battle near Losnitza;
Russians successfully advance on Austro-German frontier.

Aug. 22--Russians report continued successes on Austro-German frontier;
Servians report capture of Austrian guns in pursuit of defeated force
across the Drina.

Aug. 23--Russian Army pushes fifty miles into Prussia, capturing three
towns; Servian version of victory at Losnitza confirmed in Rome;
Montenegrins continue attack.

Aug. 24--Austria abandons Servian campaign to meet Russian attack; two
Russian armies crush Germans in the east; retreating armies lay waste
the country.

Aug. 25--Russians spread on broad front over East Prussia and Galicia
and repulse Austrians at Kielce; Germans report Russian defeat near
Gumbinnen; Servians chase Austrians along whole front; report of German
outrages on Jews in Kalisz.

Aug. 26--Russians sweep over Prussia in three lines, menacing Koenigsberg
and Posen; Germans reported fleeing from Elbing district; report of
Russian advance into Austria; Austrians drive Russians from Krasnik.

Aug. 27--Russians take Tilsit; Germans retreat toward Koenigsberg and
Allenstein; Austrians routed in Galicia; French troops join Montenegrins
to operate against Austria.

Aug. 28--Russians reach Allenstein; Russians continue advance in
Galicia; Serbs defeat Austrians at Shabats.

Aug. 29--Russians invest Koenigsberg and occupy Allenstein; Germans claim
victories; Russians draw net around Lemberg; Austrians claim occupation
of Zamost.

Aug. 30--Russians advance in East Prussia, to the Vistula and bombard
Thorn and Graudenz; panic in Danzig; battle between Russians and
Austrians in Poland; Austrians defeated at Lemberg; Russians gain ground
against Austrians and win battle at Zamost; Germans in East Prussia get
reinforcements and report capture of 30,000 Russians; Poland almost
clear of German troops.

Sept. 1--Russians inflict crushing defeat on Austrians on Galician
frontier; Germans announce defeat of three Russian army corps near
Allenstein.

Sept. 2--Russians seize fortified positions around Lemberg, admit
advance into East Prussia temporarily checked; new invasion of Germany
planned; Turkey lands troops in Asia Minor; Montenegrins defeat
Austrians near Bilek.

Sept. 3--Austrians report success at Lublin; Cossacks rout German
scouting party from Thorn; Russians take capital of Bukowina.

Sept. 5--Russians take Lemberg and Halicz and march toward Poland;
Austrians defeated at Tomaszow; Russian refugees tell of destruction of
Kalisch by Germans; twenty Russian army corps march on Prussia, ten hold
Austria back; Austrians defeated near Lublin.

Sept. 6--Russians attack Germans on left bank of the Vistula, occupy
Stryk regions, capture Forty-fifth Austrian Regiment near Krasnystaw,
capture Austrian aeroplane and a Zeppelin and take year's provisions at
Lemberg.

Sept. 7--Austrians retreat; Russians closing in on Przemysl.

Sept. 8--Russians take Nikolaieff and Mikolajow; Gen. Ruzsky engages
Gen. Auffenberg's army in Poland; Austrians claim advance into Russian
Poland and defeat of Serbs near Mitrovica; Servian invasion of Bosnia
begun.

Sept. 9--Battle at Rava-Russka; Austrians evacuate Russian Poland;
Germans claim capture of part of Russian Imperial Guard; Serbs and
Montenegrins advance into Bosnia.

Sept. 10--Russians invade Silesia and menace Breslau; Austro-German
forces defeated at Lublin; Serbs cross the Save.

Sept. 11--Serbs take Semlin; Montenegrins take Folcha and join with
Serbs in march on Serajevo; Germans defeat invading Finland force at
Lyck; Polish miners at Berdzin wreck German train by concealing
explosive in fuel; Russians occupy Suczawa and Hatna; Russians fight on
Austrian and German border; Austrians resume offensive near Lemberg.

Sept. 12--Russians defeat Austrians in battle near Tomaszow; German
attack in East Prussia checked; successes of Serbs against Austrians
continue.

Sept. 13--Russian victories west and northwest of Lemberg; Russo-Serb
Army plans advance on Budapest; Montenegrins will invest Bosnia.

Sept. 14--Austrians rally for battle before Przemsyl; Russians cross the
San; Germans defeated near Miawa and send reinforcements to Memel.

Sept. 15--Russians occupy Grodek; Austrians hemmed in between Rivers San
and Vistula; Germans report defeat of Russian Armies of Vina and Grodno;
Russians say Germans have been driven back across frontier; Serbs invade
Hungary.

Sept. 16--Austrians still retreat in Galicia; Servians continue advance
into Bosnia; Montenegrins defeat Austrians near Koulilovo.

Sept. 17--Austrians flee before Russians toward Cracow; Gen. Rennekampf
blocks flanking movement by Germans; Servian artillery repulses Austrian
warships that shell Semlin and Belgrade.

Sept. 18--Russians take Siniava and Sambor; Austrian rear guard thrown
back beyond the San; prisoners and ammunition captured near Memirov;
Germans advance against Russians in Suwalki Province; Russians halt
offensive German movement and plan new invasion of East Poland; Germans
retreat from Kielce Province to rally Austrians defeated at Krasnik;
Russians enter Kazeshow.

Sept. 20--Russians attack Jaroslaw and Przemysl and seize Sambor and
Kresheshov; Gen. Auffenberg's army separated from Gen. Dankl's; Germans
defeated near Sandomierz; Gen. Rennenkampf checks German advance in East
Prussia; Servians defeat Austrians near Novi-Bazar.

Sept. 21--Russians take Dubiecko and surround Gen. Dankl's army;
Servians win near Krupani, evacuate Semlin.

Sept. 22--Austrians defeated on the Drina near Krupani; Russians occupy
Jaroslaw and again move to attack Koenigsberg.

Sept. 23--Russians take Wislok; Austrian retreat from Przemysl through
Carpathians cut off; Cossacks raid Czenstochowa; French land guns at
Antivari.

Sept. 24--Advance guards of Russian forces arrive before Cracow; Germans
defeated at Subin; Russians again occupy Soldau; Montenegrins report
capture of Pratzho and Montak in Bosnia.

Sept. 25--Russians occupy Czyschky and Felstyn; Germans occupy Cracow,
population flees; Przemysl cut off from all communication; battle
between Serbs and Austrians near Zvorkni.

Sept. 26--Greater part of Przemysl occupied by Russians; Germans
concentrated in Prussia for impending battle.

Sept. 27--Russians halt German advance in Suwalki and enter town of
Przemysl; Serbs and Montenegrins reach Rumania; Germans in weak position
on the Niemen River.

Sept. 28--Montenegrins within artillery range of Serajevo; Serbs occupy
mountains near by; Bosnians join invading army; Russians occupy Dembica
and take another fort at Przemysl, cross Carpathians, and invade
Hungary.

Sept. 29--Russians sweep across the Carpathians and over Northern
Hungary; Servians retake Semlin.

Sept. 30--Germans fail in attempt to cross the River Niemen; retreating
Austrians surrounded near Dukia; Hungarians retake Uzsok Pass; Servians
and Montenegrins close to capital of Bosnia.

Oct. 2--Russians break German centre and take up new battle line from
Mariampol to Ossowitz; Germans bombard Ossowitz; Russians claim
victories in Lodz and Suwalki, and take two Przemysl forts.

Oct. 3--Germans are evacuating Russian Poland; Russians advance on
Transylvania; fighting at Augustowo; Servians raid Semlin and destroy
forts.

Oct. 4--Russians defeat Germans at Augustowo and advance reaches Nugy
Valley in Hungary; Germans make unsuccessful attacks on Ossowitz forts;
Germans lured into a trap on the Niemen.

Oct. 5--Two Russian armies advance toward Allenstein; fighting near
Warsaw; Russians are near Cracow; Germans fortify heights between
Breslau and Cracow; Austrians claim victory over Montenegrins in East
Bosnia; Servians approach Serajevo fortifications.

Oct. 6--Germans claim victories near Suwalki and Augustowo; Russian
forces from the Baltic close in on Germans, and announce German retreat
from positions between Wirballen and Lyck; Austrians claim victory at
Uzsok Pass, but Cossacks are reported eighty miles from Budapest.

Oct. 7--Germans bring reinforcements from Koenigsberg and check Russians;
Russians shell Przemysl; Austrians report victory in Hungary near Tesco.

Oct. 8--Russians claim repulse of Germans in Russian Poland and capture
of Biala; Germans deny Russian advance in Suwalki; gains by Montenegrins
in Herzegovina.

Oct. 9--Russians announce reoccupation of Lyck; Przemysl reported on
fire.

Oct. 10--Russians claim that Germans are retiring from Lyck; Austrians
report successes throughout Galicia.

Oct. 11--Montenegrins defeat Austrians near Kalenovitch; Russians
[Transcriber: original 'Rusians'] sweep through Bukoi Bukowina;
Austrians rush help to Przemysl.

Oct. 12--Russians abandon siege of Przemysl and retreat from Galicia;
German-Austrian army captures many prisoners.

Oct. 13--Fall of Warsaw believed near; British Consul asks for American
protection; Montenegrins defeat Austrians near Serajevo.

Oct. 14--Germans report defeat of Russians at Warsaw and recapture of
Lyck; Servians in Bosnia beaten back.

Oct. 15--Berlin reports advance of eight Russian army corps against Bast
Prussia; account made public of how Gen. von Hindenburg lured Gen.
Rennenkampf into trap at Tennenberg; Russians report victory over
Austrians south of Przemysl.


*CAMPAIGN IN WESTERN EUROPE.*

July 26--Belgium increases army to enforce neutrality.

July 27--Belgian Army mobilizes, Holland prepares to maintain
neutrality.

July 28--French Army moves to frontier.

July 29--Belgium calls out reserves.

July 30--England takes defensive measures.

July 31--Belgium mobilizes.

Aug. 1--France mobilizes after Germany asks her intentions; will respect
neutrality of Belgium.

Aug. 2--Germany sends ultimatum to Belgium, seizes Luxemburg, and
invades France; fighting at Longwy, three German spies arrested in
England.

Aug. 3--Berlin reports acts of hostility by French; England will protect
French coast and defend Belgium; France promises to guard Belgian
neutrality; France holds that war with Germany began automatically with
invasion of her territory.

Aug. 4--England declares war on Germany as Kaiser rejects ultimatum on
Belgian neutrality; Germany declares war on Belgium; attack on Liege
repulsed; Germans cross French border near Mars-la-Tour and Moineville.

Aug. 5--French repulse Germans at border; many Germans killed in attack
on Liege, Crown Prince bringing aid, French Army rushing up.

Aug. 6--Germans take two forts at Liege; French Army coming; English
coast towns arm.

Aug. 7--Rapid mobilization of French on frontier; French occupy two
towns in Alsace-Lorraine; Kaiser and King of Belgium call nations to
arms; Bavarians beaten by French at Marrehan; Germans enter Liege, forts
still held by Belgians; Germans get armistice to bury dead.

Aug. 8--Holland guards frontier; conflicting reports of fall of Liege;
French forces in Belgium; British land on Continent; French take
Muelhausen after battle at Altkirch; German spies try to blow up tunnels
and bridges near Paris.

Aug. 9--Germans in Alsace fall back on Neu Breisach; Kaiser leaves for
front; Belgian War Minister denies capture of Liege, Germans in city but
forts untaken; French and English reinforce Belgians; Governor and
Bishop of Liege held as hostages; German warning of reprisals; Germans
arrested in England; Holland captures and disarms Uhlans at Maastricht.

Aug. 10--France breaks off diplomatic relations with Austria; French
student tells how Germans shot refugees; French patrols cover Eifel
district in Germany; French open way into Alsace by capturing Bonhomme
and Sainte Marie; 100 German spies put to death in Belgium; more caught;
Germans forced by French to plan new campaign in Belgium; Allies claim
success in cavalry encounters; Germans moving through Esch.

Aug. 11--Germans attack French frontier, take Lagarde and intrench south
of Liege; Belgians retake Loncin fort; Kaiser claims victory at Liege;
French Army forced back in Alsace; minor checks to Germans; German siege
guns before Liege; German advance directed at gap between Verdun and
Longwy.

Aug. 12--Germany tries again to negotiate with Belgium for passage of
army; Germans bombard Point-a-Mousson; Germans move on Brussels and are
driven back by Belgians' left wing; Germans report victory in Alsace;
Germans reported to have shot French wounded; German spies terrorize
Belgium; battle near Tongres; German official says Kaiser halted attack
on Liege and denies heavy losses; Germans complete bridge for siege
artillery; Paris papers say Germans burned village of Affleville and
shot farmers.

Aug. 13--England declares war on Austria; Belgians beat off Germans in
two-day fight; Namur defenses strengthened; battles at Diest, Haelen,
and Eghezee; Germans shoot woman accused of attempt to blow up Alsatian
tunnel; British, French, and Belgians charge cruelties by German troops;
report that Germans hold Diest; German guns reported wrecked by fire
from Liege forts; French report severe defeat of Germans by
counter-attack at Pont-a-Mousson; Swiss report that Germans lost 10,000
in Alsace; Swiss disarm German troops; Italy's troops guard Alpine
passes.

Aug. 14--Germans mass to attack Allies and move toward Brussels;
bombardment of Liege renewed; attempt to storm Pontisse fails; British
Commander French and French Gen. Joffre meet at headquarters; French and
Belgian forts exchange officers; French win in battle in Vosges
Mountains.

Aug. 15--Armies of Germany and Allies face each other on 248-mile battle
front; French storm three towns and retake Thann in Alsace; battling at
Liege forts continues; Germans said to have shot innocent people in
Linsmeau for slaying an officer.

Aug. 16--Fighting at Muelhausen renewed; French take offensive along line
from Luneville to Saarburg; clash near Dinant; Germans damage Vise;
general advance of French on eastern frontier; South Belgium barricaded;
Belgian cyclists fight strong German force; rumor that Austrians are in
Belgium.

Aug. 17--French forces sweep on toward Strassburg; desultory fighting
clears ground between Germans and Allies; Belgians say Germans torture
prisoners; Belgian seat of Government moved to Antwerp.

Aug. 18--British force lands in France; German advance on Brussels
checked; Germans evacuate Saarburg; French take two batteries; Germans
start second fire in Vise.

Aug. 19--Fighting near Altkirch; Paris prepares for eventualities;
Allies fall back and may quit Brussels; Germans occupy Louvain; French
report further advance into Alsace; Germans retake Ville.

Aug. 20--French reoccupy Muelhausen, but are checked in Lorraine; other
French gains in Alsace; German cavalry occupies Brussels; Belgian Army
retires on Antwerp; French victory near Luneville; Germans defeat
Belgians at Aerschot.

Aug. 21--French withdraw from Lorraine; Germans rush through Brussels,
capture Ghent, levy war taxes on Brussels and Liege, and will try to
seize Ostend; England says tax levy is violation of Hague treaty; German
assault on Namur begins; report of German vengeance on town of Tongres;
Antwerp, new seat of Government, prepares for defense; Germans hold
Audun-la-Roman and continue to cross the Meuse.

Aug. 22--French deny German report of victory between Metz and the
Vosges; Germans continue bombardment of Namur forts and face Allies on
twenty-mile front to Charleroi; main force is aimed at Lille; battle
between English and Germans at Waterloo; French close in on Colmar;
fight between German and English cavalry at Colmar; fear that Belgian
cities may not be able to pay indemnity; Germans accused of shooting
Burgomaster and citizens of Aerschot without provocation.

Aug. 23--Allies take offensive against Germans along 150-mile line from
Mons to Luxemburg; Belgian commander blows up one Liege fort; others
hold out; French repel three days' attack on Muelhausen intrenchments;
France protests to Hague against use of dumdum bullets by Germans.

Aug. 24--Allies fall back before German attack on Belgium; report that
Namur has fallen; account made public of battle at Charleroi; Germans,
led by Crown Prince in Lorraine, pursue French beyond Longwy; success of
force headed by Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria at Luneville, Blamont and
Cirey; French defeated at Neuf-chateau by forces under Grand Duke
Albrecht of Wuerttemberg; Germans begin another attack on Muelhausen;
English cavalry brigade defeated by Germans south of Brussels; Germans
set fire to Hussigny and resume fire at Liege.

Aug. 25--Battle on new 200-mile-line between Germans and Allies; Germans
capture five Namur forts and are attacking others; French withdraw from
Alsace to frontier; Allies gain to the south; Germans levy tax on
Brabant; report that Lorrainers betrayed French troops to Germans.

Aug. 26--Allies fall back a short distance in Belgium; Belgian success
at Malines; French claim success near Nancy and Luneville; report that
Lille is abandoned; big battle in Lorraine; Germans fire houses in
Liege; Berlin announces British rout at Maubeuge.

Aug. 27--Germans take Longwy and all Namur forts; British-French line
falls back on right flank; French reoccupy Lille; details given out of
fighting at Mons; Germans take Malines and tax Tourant and Charleroi;
announcement of German bombardment of Malines; Paris prepares for
possible siege.

Aug. 28--Austria declares war on Belgium; Belgians retake Malines and
advance to Brussels; Germans defeat Allies along entire line; report
that fall of Namur was due to heavy fog; Germans sack and burn Louvain;
art treasures destroyed.

Aug. 29--German force withdrawn from Belgium to meet Russians; French
right wins at Guise, left reinforced but repulsed; Germans march on La
Fere; Allies evacuate Boulogne; account made public of the heroic
defense of Longwy; details given out of fall of Namur; Germans blow up
bridges on railway from Antwerp to frontier; French bayoneted company of
Germans accused of treachery; Military Governor of Paris orders
destruction of houses obstructing forts' fire.

Aug. 30--French left wing again driven back; Allies' lines reinforced;
Germans recalled to Brussels to hold city; French reported successful
near Amiens.

Aug. 31--Paris defense plans rushed; Allies' left flank again driven
back.

Sept. 1--Allies' centre hard pressed; German attack on Belfort fails;
British flank reinforced; Germans fortify Brussels.

Sept. 2--French move capital temporarily to Bordeaux to allow Allies to
pivot left wing on Paris; German cavalry corps defeated by British near
Compiegne; another pushes on to Soissons; French report success in
Lorraine.

Sept. 3--Report that Russian troops have been transported to Belgium;
Germans take La Fere and Amiens and move to attack Laon and Rheims;
Austrians sent to reinforce German left wing; Germans are twenty-five
miles from Paris.

Sept. 4--Germans neglect Paris and move eastward; German right wing
reported checked and driven back to St. Quentin; Allies driven back
behind Conde; Germans move toward Verdun; Germans bombard Termonde;
fighting in Alost.

Sept. 5--Germans take Rheims and three forts at Maubeuge; Belgians trap
Germans in flooded area near Malines; Germans take Termonde; Germans
abandon attack on Belfort.

Sept. 6--German right wing checked near Paris; Kaiser directs attack on
Nancy; account made public of evacuation of Senlis and Chantilly.

Sept. 7--It is now plain that the German march on Paris has been
deflected; Allies force Germans back in 160-mile battle from
Nanteuil-le-Hardouin to Verdun and report defeat of Crown Prince's army;
Germans defeat Belgians near Melle and march to occupy Ghent; repulsed
at Capelle-au-Bois.

Sept. 8--British push German right over the Marne; French win on the
Ourcq; fighting at Vitry.

Sept. 9--Germans claim capture of Maubeuge; British cross the Marne;
Germans fall back; have evacuated Upper Alsace.

Sept. 10--Gen. von Stein admits defeat by Allies; Belgians reoccupy
Termonde, Aerschot, and Diest; French join British across Marne in
pursuing Germans; fighting near Vitry and other points in centre.

Sept. 11--German line west of Revigny retreats, but captures fort near
Verdun; Gen. Pau seizes German supply train; account given out of battle
at Meaux; British report annihilation of German Jaeger regiment; French
deny fall of Maubeuege and recapture Muelhausen; Germans march south from
Ghent, Belgians in pursuit.

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