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




Sept. 12--Belgians cut German Army in two by victory at Cortenberg;
whole German line in France retreats, Luneville retaken; Belgians
repulse German sortie at Louvain and advance on Brussels.

Sept. 13--Germans repulsed at Nancy and Luneville, evacuate Amiens, lose
Revigny and Brabant-le-Roi; Crown Prince's Army threatened; fighting at
Louvain and Malines; heavy fighting at Bortzy; battle between Thann and
Sennheim.

Sept. 14--Amiens reoccupied by French; Fort of Troyon relieved; Germans
make stand on the Aisne; Germans lay waste to Senlis.

Sept. 15--German Crown Prince's army driven back to the Orne; French
reoccupy Rheims; fighting on the Aisne; new intrenched positions taken
by German armies; La Ferte ransacked by Germans; Franco-Belgian
successes at Alost and Rousbrugge.

Sept. 16--New battle on from Noyon to Verdun; army from Douen is
circling von Kluck's corps; Germans move nearer Antwerp.

Sept. 17--German Army strengthened between Berry-au-Bac and Argonne;
French advance in Woevre district; deadlock on right flank; Belgians
repulse attack on Termonde.

Sept. 18--Germans complete bombardment of Termonde; now known that
Maubeuge has fallen; Allies' left advances six miles; Germans report
gain in centre; Germans intrench on the Sambre; Germans send scouting
parties into Belgium.

Sept. 19--Germans fortify along the Rhine; Allies advance on left and
right wings and drive back army of German Crown Prince; heavy fighting
at Rheims; Germans capture Beaumont; German shells hit Cathedral of
Notre Dame and Church of St. Remi in Rheims.

Sept. 20--Germans badly damage Rheims; Allies make slight gains;
fighting near Soissons; Germans report offensive move; Allies capture
Souain; Belgians retake Lanaeken; Germans bring siege guns up to
Antwerp.

Sept. 21--Allies gain between Rheims and Argonne, take Massiges and
Mesnil; Germans claim capture of Craonne hills and Betheny; Belgians
repulse German assault on Fort Waelhem; Termonde under fire again.

Sept. 22--Germans claim victories at Craonne and Betheny; their right
turned between Peronne and St. Quentin; desultory fighting near Malines
and Alost.

Sept. 23--Allies advance on left wing near Lassigny; Germans bombard
Verdun; Germans prepare for campaign in Southern Belgium.

Sept. 24--French take Peronne; Germans take Varennes; Belgians report
victory near Antwerp.

Sept. 25--Allies beaten back by Germans at Noyon, but renew offensive
after being reinforced; Germans advance southeast of Verdun; quarries
from Giraumont to Machemok strengthen German position; campaign in
Alsace halted by snow.

Sept. 26--Germans take Fort des Romaines and cross the Meuse; Germans
burn Bilsen; Austrian and German artillery menace Antwerp.

Sept. 27--Allies repulse charges on right and left wings; Germans gain
in centre; Verdun forts withdraw fire; French reinforced on the Meuse;
Germans again bombard Malines.

Sept. 28--Allies make slight progress on heights of the Meuse; fog in
Woevre district causes suspension of fighting; Belgians retake Alost and
repulse Germans at Malines.

Sept. 29--Germans occupy Moll and Malines, bombard Lierre, and shell
outer forts of Antwerp; fighting on the Aisne continues.

Sept. 30--Allies drive back both German wings and retake St. Mihiel;
French trap Germans in quarries; Germans destroy town of Orchies;
Belgians renew bombardment of Lierre.

Oct. 1--Belgians repulse German attacks on Antwerp forts; Germans
capture Roye and claim success in attack on Albert; French report gains;
French shell Germans in quarries; Scheldt River interferes with attack
of Germans on Antwerp; Belgians bombard church at Termonde to drive
Germans from steeple.

Oct. 2--Allies checked after pushing north to Arras; Germans driven back
across the Meuse; Germans report two Antwerp forts silenced; Cologne
prepares for defense; Belgians report German repulse at one Antwerp fort
and at Termonde.

Oct. 3--Battle at Roye; Germans claim victory near Toul; Belgians near
Antwerp fall back.

Oct. 4--Berlin reports capture of Forts Wavre, St. Catherine, and
Dorpweld, and of Termonde; Allies defeat flanking movement and
battleground shifts to vicinity of Arras; Allies claim success in Woevre
and Soissons regions; British forces aid in defense of Antwerp; Fort
Walheim damaged; Germans take two villages on Dutch border near
Maastricht.

Oct. 5--Germans gain on right wing, take three Antwerp forts, and resume
offensive in Argonne district and along the Meuse.

Oct. 6--Antwerp warned that bombardment is near; desperate fighting on
the Oise; Allies gain at Soissons; German column near Lille; French hold
strong positions in Alsace.

Oct. 7--Germans report bombardment of Lanaeken when civilians attack
them; Germans closing in on Antwerp and have crossed the Nethe; fighting
near Ghent; Allies drive German cavalry back from Lille and gain at
Roye; skirmish at Ypres; Allies reinforced; Germans are still shelling
Rheims.

Oct. 8--Antwerp bombarded by German siege guns and Zeppelins; Germans
cross the Scheldt; Allies gain near Arras, which is being shelled by
Germans; Germans cut railway lines near Ypres; cavalry fights on the
Belgian frontier.

Oct. 9--Germans claim progress near St. Mihiel and in the Argonne
district; Germans report fall of Fort Breendonk; Antwerp aflame;
fighting around Roye; cavalry battles near Lille; Germans occupy
Courtrai and destroy bridges between Brussels and Mons.

Oct. 10--Antwerp surrenders, Belgian Army escapes; widespread ruin in
city; some British troops driven into Holland; fighting at Arras
continues; Germans bombard Lokeron; Germans report gains at St. Mihiel
and in the Argonne region.

Oct. 11--Germans occupy Antwerp; main British and Belgian defending
armies reach Ostend; fighting near Soissons; German attacks in Caronne
region repulsed; Allies win in centre; Arras free from Germans; British
official report tells how the Germans were routed near Bray.

Oct. 12--Germans enter Ghent; Allies fight to check German
reinforcements; fighting at Lasigny and Lens; Germans mass around Ypres;
cavalry fighting near Lille.

Oct. 13--Germans press on toward Ostend; severe fighting in Argonne
district; Germans take Lille and occupy Hazebrouck and Ypres; Germans
occupy Ghent and move on Bruges.

Oct. 14--Belgian Army leaves Ostend and joins Allies in field; Allies
reoccupy Ypres; French gain near border; German battalion trapped in
canal in Lorraine.

Oct. 15--Allies retake Estaires and report gains at several points;
Germans deny repulses and occupy Bruges, Thielt, Daume, and Esschen;
German convoy captured by French.


*CAMPAIGN IN THE FAR EAST.*

Aug. 4--Japanese Government's proclamation prepares people for war in
behalf of England.

Aug. 6--Germans fortify Tsing-tau.

Aug. 11--Japan requisitions transports.

Aug. 16--Japan sends ultimatum to Germany demanding withdrawal of fleet
in Far Eastern waters and giving up of Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 17--Official announcement that Japan's action will be limited to
China Sea and to protection of her trade; ultimatum to Germany made with
concurrence of England.

Aug. 18--Count Okuma emphasizes Japan's limitation of war and England
reassures United States.

Aug. 19--Germany will reject Japan's demands.

Aug. 20--Kaiser orders resistance to Japan at Kiao-Chau; Japanese
Foreign Office makes statement explaining ultimatum to Germany.

Aug. 22--Germany ignores Japan's demands: time limit ends, Japanese
envoy ordered to leave Berlin; Japan is expected to make war move at
once.

Aug. 23--Japan declares war on Germany.

Aug. 24--Germans blow up bridges to halt Japanese invasion of Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 26--War declared by Austria against Japan; British destroy German
wireless and cable stations on Island of Yap.

Aug. 29--Germans lay mines at Kiao-Chau and fire at landing party at
Cape Jaeschke.

Aug. 30--Japanese troops landed near Kiao-Chau; forts fire at destroyer.

Aug. 31--Japanese occupy two islands.

Sept. 2--Japan lands force at Lung-kow; German Legation protests against
violation of China's neutrality.

Sept. 3--Japanese occupy seven islands near Kiao-Chau, clear waters of
mines, and land more troops at Lung-kow; China protests against
violation of her neutrality.

Sept. 9--Japanese advance southward in Shantung.

Sept. 14--Japanese flank Kiao-Chau.

Sept. 15--Japanese cavalry captures Chimo; vanguard of Japanese Army
reaches Kiao-Chau.

Sept. 19--Japanese seize Kiao-Chau station and train and land troops at
Laoshan.

Sept. 20--Japanese cavalry in clash with German outposts near Tsing-tau.

Sept. 22--Australians seize German wireless station on Island of Nauru.

Sept. 24--British troops land near Laoshan, China.

Sept. 26--Japanese advance on Fangate, where Germans hold valuable
mines.

Sept. 27--Japanese defeat Germans on outskirts of Kiao-Chau; food supply
in city short.

Sept. 28--Japanese approach Tsing-tau.

Sept. 29--Japanese invest Tsing-tau; Chinese blow up railroad bridges to
hinder progress of Japanese troops.

Sept. 30--Germans abandon artillery as Japanese reach Lao-Che.

Oct. 1--Germans destroy railroad bridge at Ta-yu-ho.

Oct. 4--Japanese march along railroad to Wei-Hsein; one Chinese killed.

Oct. 5--Japanese repulse night attack of Germans at Tsing-tau.

Oct. 6--Germans plan to destroy Shantung Railway.

Oct. 7--Japanese seize Island of Yap; Japanese bring siege guns before
Tsing-tau.

Oct. 8--German fire slackens at Tsing-tau.

Oct. 13--Arrangements made for departure of non-combatants before final
attack on Kiao-Chau.


*CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA.*

Aug. 8--British seize Port Lome, Togoland.

Aug. 9--French are in Togoland.

Aug. 26--Germans surrender Togoland.

Aug. 28--German troops attack Belgian Congo.

Sept. 10--Germans defeated by British in Nyassaland.

Sept. 13--Germans occupy Karangu, British East Africa.

Sept. 15--British defeat Germans in Namaqualand.

Sept. 18--Germans defeated by garrison of seven British at Nakob.

Sept. 22--Germans repulsed in attack on fort in Voi district.

Sept. 24--Germans at Schuckmannsberg surrender to police.

Sept. 25--Australian force takes German New Guinea.

Sept. 26--French seize Coco Beach, Kamerun; British occupy Luederitz
Bay; Germans raid Walfish Bay.

Sept. 28--German Congo seized by British and French.

Oct. 13--Detachment of Boers under Col. Maritz rebels because of the
pro-British stand taken by the Government of South Africa; martial law
proclaimed in colony; British imprison Germans in British East Africa
and Germans imprison British in German East Africa.

Oct. 14--There are but few men in the Maritz rebel force; silence of
Boer leaders is found disquieting in England.

Oct. 15--Col. Brits's force captures eighty rebels under Col. Maritz;
Gen. Botha takes field; prominent men arrested on charge of treason.


*NAVAL RECORD*.

July 26--British and French fleets ready for action; Servian vessels in
Danube seized by Austrians; German fleet ordered concentrated in home
waters; Italy masses fleet.

July 29 and 30--British fleet leaves Portland; British and German fleets
in Far East mobilize.

July 31--German squadron stops merchant vessels in Danish waters;
British warships near; Montenegrin King's yacht escapes Austrian
destroyers.

Aug. 2--Fight between German and Russian cruisers off Libau; German High
Sea Fleet seizes Wilson liner Castro and a collier; fleets assemble in
Far East.

Aug. 3--Germans chase Norwegian food ship.

Aug. 4--Rival warships off Port of New York; British mine layer sunk by
German fleet; British fleet will aim to destroy Kiel Canal.

Aug. 5--British third flotilla has battle with Germans in North Sea;
cruiser Amphion damaged; German mine layer Koenigen Luise sunk; many
German merchant ships seized by English, French, and Russians; Germans
bombard Sveaborg, torpedo boat blown up.

Aug. 6--British cruiser Amphion sunk by mine; French capture German tank
steamer; Germans capture Russian ship.

Aug. 7--British and German cruisers reported in fight off Brazilian
coast; British steamers destroyed by mines off German and Turkish
coasts; British capture German steamer Schlesien; German merchant ship
captured by French; Germans capture Russian cruiser; Japanese warships
off port of Tsing-tau; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau leave Genoa.

Aug. 8--Thirty-six German ships seized by Belgians; Russians capture
Austrian and German merchant steamers; British capture German ship, said
to be North German Lloyd liner; naval fight in Adriatic; interest in
position of Goeben and Breslau; bombardment of Libau reported by ship
Captain.

Aug. 9--British sink German submarine; cruiser Essex takes ship at sea;
Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles; two German steamers taken at
Rouen and one at Colombo; England and France protest against German
steamer Karlsruhe coaling at Porto Rico; firing off Shanghai; British
fleet proceeds to Tsing-tau; Austrian cruisers bombard Antivari.

Aug. 10--Cruiser Birmingham sinks German submarine U-15; British close
North Sea to fishing fleets; Dutch steamer sunk in Baltic; Belgians
seize two Austrian steamers; English and Canadian steamers hunt in
Atlantic for German cruisers.

Aug. 11--Battle in the Adriatic; Russians capture twenty German merchant
vessels in Baltic.

Aug. 12--German destroyer sunk by mine off South Gedser.

Aug. 13--German cruisers bombard Windau; France will check Austria's
navy; British said to have bottled up German Far Eastern squadron;
German cruisers Goeben and Breslau are flying Turkish flag.

Aug. 15--Japanese Navy sails to join British fleet; Triple Entente
demands that Turkey repatriate crews of German cruisers; Austrian liner
blown up by mine in the Adriatic; British capture Austrian liner
Marienbad; German steamer W.W. Schneefels brought to Gibraltar as war
prize.

Aug. 16--French fleet said to have sunk two Austrian ships in the
Adriatic.

Aug. 17--German dreadnought said to be damaged in Norwegian port; French
sink Austrian cruiser in the Adriatic; German cruiser Karlsruhe said to
have sunk four British merchantmen; British cruisers capture
Hamburg-American liners Cap Ortegal and Santa Catharina.

Aug. 18--Two German cruisers captured and taken to Hongkong; fight
between British and German patrol fleets.

Aug. 20--British steamer Hostilius captured by German cruiser Dresden;
German fleet said to have shelled three Russian ports.

Aug. 21--British and French warships and Montenegrin batteries bombard
Cattaro; two German Hansa liners seized at Bombay and Hamburg-American
ship at Rangoon.

Aug. 22--Steamers Maryland and Broberg sunk by mines in North Sea; two
Dutch steamers reported sunk; German cruiser Dresden sinks British
steamer Hyades; British cruiser Glasgow captures German ship Santa
Kathina; French capture German four-master and Austrian steamer; account
made public of sinking of Austrian battleship Zrinyi.

Aug. 23--Anglo-French fleets destroy Austrian cruiser Zenta and bombard
Cattaro; Dutch steamer Alcor blown up by Russians to block Hango harbor;
report that French, English, and Russian vessels are aiding Japan to
blockade Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 24--Japanese fleet has begun bombardment of Tsing-tau; Cattaro
badly damaged by British and French fleets.

Aug. 25--German steamer Elizabeth sunk.

Aug. 26--British defeated in battle with German torpedo boat off
Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 27--British cruiser Highflyer sinks Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse;
British marines occupy Ostend; German cruiser Magdeburg sunk in Gulf of
Finland; mines in North Sea sink a Danish and a Norwegian steamer;
Japanese bombard island near Kiao-Chau and blockade port.

Aug. 28--British fleet sinks two German cruisers, sets fire to third,
and sinks two torpedo boats off Heligoland; Germans fire at Japanese
fleet near Kiao-Chau; Austrian destroyer sunk by British off Corfu;
British cruiser Welland sinks German torpedo destroyer; other German
ships captured; six vessels blown up in North Sea by mines; Russians
capture crew of German cruiser Magdeburg.

Aug. 29--Port of Cape Jaeschke blocked by Japanese warships; passenger
steamer destroyed by mines near Russian port.

Aug. 30--British official account of battle off Heligoland; New Zealand
expeditionary force captures Apia.

Aug. 31--German gunboat shells abandoned Japanese destroyer at
Kiao-Chau.

Sept. 2--British and French ships again bombard Cattaro; steam drifter
Eyrie sunk by mine in North Sea.

Sept. 4--British cruiser sinks Austrian steamer Bathori in Bay of
Biscay; British gunboat Speedy sunk by mine in North Sea; British
steamship Bowes Castle sunk by German cruiser off St. Lucia.

Sept. 5--German ships sink fifteen British trawlers in North Sea.

Sept. 6--Cruiser Pathfinder destroyed by mine.

Sept. 7--British submarine strikes German warships in Bremerhaven
Harbor.

Sept. 10--British capture German, collier.

Sept. 11--Germans destroy Russian steamer Uleaborg.

Sept. 12--Australian Navy occupies Herbertshoehe in Bismarck
Archipelago; British take German coal ship Heinze.

Sept. 14--Germans capture Fanning Island and cable station; German
cruiser Hela sunk.

Sept. 17--German fleets fire on each other in Baltic by mistake; British
cruiser seizes Holland-America, liner Ryndam: French cruiser Conde
captures German storeship Helna; Canadian Pacific liner made a British
cruiser in Pacific; German cruiser Luxemburg reported to have sunk three
British freighters in West Indies.

Sept. 19--Australian submarine AE-1 lost; Austrian warship Viribus
Unitis damaged in Adriatic.

Sept. 20--Carmania sinks German merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar; German
cruiser Koenigsberg disables British cruiser Pegasus; fighting between
British and German ships in Kamerun River, Africa; six British ships
captured by German cruiser Emden; damaged Russian warships arrive at
Helsingfors; Austrian torpedo boat 27 sunk at Pola; German cruiser
Stettin fights British warships.

Sept. 21--British steamer Clan Matheson sunk by German cruiser Emden;
crews of six captured vessels landed in India.

Sept. 22--British cruiser Berwick captures Hamburg-American liner
Spreewald and two German colliers; German submarine U-9 sinks British
cruisers Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue in North Sea; British steamer
Belgian King sunk near Cape Kureli.

Sept. 23--Russian cruiser Bayan sinks German cruiser and two torpedo
boats; Germany says submarine U-9 sunk British ships unaided in North
Sea fight yesterday; Austrian cruisers Maria Theresia and Admiral Staun
damaged; trawler Kilmarnock sunk by mine.

Sept. 24--Two Austrian torpedo boats and one destroyer sunk by mines in
the Adriatic; Norwegian steamer Hesvik sunk in North Sea; cruiser Emden
bombards Madras; Anglo-French fleet again bombards Cattaro.

Sept. 25--Kronprinz Wilhelm sinks British steamer Indian Prince; British
charge that Germans fired on Carmania after white flag was raised.

Sept. 26--Fortress of Pelagosa dismantled by Anglo-French fleet; British
cruiser Cornwall seizes Dutch steamer with coal consigned to Rio de
Janeiro; French gunboat Surprise sinks two German ships and seizes Coco
Beach, West Africa; British capture German ship Ossa and seize American
ship Lorenzo and Norwegian ship Thor accused of coaling German cruiser.

Sept. 28--French warship sunk at Cattaro by forts.

Sept. 29--German cruiser Emden has sunk five British steamers in Gulf of
Bengal and has destroyed all tank steamers at Madras; British warships
bombard Tsing-tau forts.

Sept. 30--British cruiser Cumberland captures Hamburg-American liner
Arnfried and nine merchant steamers; Italian ships sunk by Austrian
mines.

Oct. 1--Account given out of bombardment of Windau by German squadron;
fighting between German and Japanese warships in Kiao-Chau Harbor.

Oct. 2--British Admiralty plans to lay mines as counterstroke to German
policy; German cruisers shell Papeete, capital of French Island of
Tahiti; French gunboat sinks German auxiliary ships Rhios and Itolo;
German cruiser Liepzig sinks Union oil tanker Elsinore.

Oct. 3--German cruiser Karlsruhe sinks seven British ships; British
steamer Dawdon and Norwegian steamer Thomos sunk by mines; German
steamer Mark bottled up in Philippine port; Italian boat sunk by
Austrian mine; Japanese cruiser blown up by mine in Laoshan Bay.

Oct. 4--Anglo-French fleet bombards Cattaro and destroys Lustica; Dutch
steamer Nieuwland sunk by mine in North Sea; Rear Admiral Troubridge
recalled from Mediterranean to London to explain escape of German
cruisers Goeben and Breslau.

Oct. 5--Japanese capture Jaluit Island; British grain ship sunk by mine
near Dover; Japanese shells hit German gunboat Iltis in Tsing-tau
Harbor.

Oct. 6--French lay mines in Adriatic to offset similar action by
Austrians.

Oct. 7--British submarine sinks German destroyer off mouth of River Ems;
six Austrian torpedo craft reported sunk by mines in the Adriatic;
British trawler blown up in the North Sea.

Oct. 9--It is announced that thirty-two German merchant ships were
destroyed at Antwerp.

Oct. 10--Japanese warships silence Iltis forts.

Oct. 11--French fleet sinks two Austrian torpedo boats.

Oct. 12--German submarine sinks Russian cruiser Pallada.

Oct. 13--Russians claim that Germans lost two submarines in attack on
Pallada.

Oct. 14--Report denied by Germans.

Oct. 15--British cruiser Yarmouth sinks German liner Markomannia.


*AERIAL RECORD.*

Aug. 2--Report that French aviators have dropped bombs on Nuernberg;
German troops shoot down French aeroplanes near Wesel; report that
Garros, French aviator, wrecked German airship at Longwy; French
aeroplanes dispatched toward Nancy.

Aug. 3--German airships fly over Belgium.

Aug. 5--Duel between Belgian and German aviators; Austrians report
destruction of Russian aeroplane.

Aug. 13--German aeroplane pursued by Belgians; German aviator throws
bomb on Vesoul.

Aug. 15--Harmless bombs thrown by German aviators on Vesoul and Lure;
French aviators throw bombs on Zeppelins in Metz; five men wounded in
Namur by bombs thrown from German aeroplanes.

Aug. 18--Three Zeppelins wrecked by gunfire, one by fall; German
monoplane drops bombs on Luneville; German aeroplane destroyed near
Samno, Russia.

Aug. 19--German monoplane captured in Belgium.

Aug. 20--Pegoud's airship destroyed in flight to drop bombs in Germany;
Dutch capture German aeroplanes.

Aug. 23--French destroy Zeppelin.

Aug. 24--France believes five German Zeppelins are out of action.

Aug. 25--Zeppelin bombs fall in Antwerp.

Aug. 29--Russians bring down Zeppelin.

Aug. 30--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris; French Embassy in
Washington denies that aeroplanes bombarded Nuernberg.

Aug. 31--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris.

Sept. 1--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris.

Sept. 2--Fight between French and German aeroplanes; Zeppelin renews
attack on Antwerp.

Sept. 3--German aeroplanes drop bombs on British transport on the Seine
and on Belfort; German aeroplane over Paris destroyed, aviators killed.

Sept. 4--Three German aeroplanes wrecked by French.

Sept. 9--Russian and Austrian aviators killed in battle.

Sept. 12--German aviators killed in battle with French near Troyes.

Sept. 14--Japanese aeroplane drops bomb in Kiao-Chau.

Sept. 17--Berlin claims that no Zeppelins have been destroyed.

Sept. 18--Bomb dropped on Antwerp; Japanese aviator sets fire to ship in
Kiao-Chau Bay.

Sept. 20--Vedrines kills German aviator; French aviator Chevilliard
captured by Germans.

Sept. 21--Japanese aeroplanes wreck two forts at Tsing-tau.

Sept. 23--British drop bombs on Zeppelin shed at Duesseldorf; London
fears Zeppelin attacks and reduces lights to minimum.

Sept. 24--Zeppelin drops three bombs in Belgium; French capture five
Taube machines from Germans; destruction of Zeppelin by Russians near
Sieradz.

Sept. 25--Duel between Belgian and German aviators over Brussels;
Zeppelin drops bombs in Ostend; London prepares to repel attacks.

Sept. 26--Zeppelin raids Warsaw.

Sept. 27--Man killed and child crippled in Paris; three killed in
Warsaw.

Sept. 29--Zeppelin drops bombs on two Belgian towns.

Sept. 30--Japanese aeroplanes attack Kiao-Chau Harbor.

Oct. 1--Zeppelin drops bomb near Antwerp, but is driven off.

Oct. 2--Germans report capture of thirty French aeroplanes; it is
learned that aviators patrolled the Straits of Dover during passage of
British expeditionary force; German aviators drop messages to Russian
troops.

Oct. 5--Searchlight tests made in London in preparation for Zeppelin
raids.

Oct. 6--It is announced that German airship aided in sinking British
cruisers; commander and crew decorated by Kaiser.

Oct. 7--London insures against damage from Zeppelin raids as air fleet
is prepared at Wilhelmshaven; French aviators set fire to German
aeroplanes.

Oct. 8--German aeroplanes drop bombs on Paris and Antwerp.

Oct. 9--British air squadron destroys Zeppelin in hangar at Duesseldorf.

Oct. 11--Three killed, fourteen injured from bombs dropped on Paris by
German aviators; Zeppelin over Ostend driven away by guns; Japanese
drop bombs in Tsing-tau.

Oct. 12--Six more bombs dropped on Paris.

Oct. 13--French rout German aviators near Paris.

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