DIARY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1433, 5 August 1915, Page 3

DIARY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE WAR.

June 28—Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo. July 31 —Russia orders general mobilisation. August I—Germanyl—Germany declares war on Russia —Luxemburg invaded by German troops. August 2 —German invasion of Belgium begun. August 3 —Mobilisation of British Navy completed. —Germany declares war on France. August 4 —Britain sends ultimatum demanding observance of Belgian neutrality.—Germany rejects ultimatum. —Britain declares war at 11 p.tn., Greenwich time. August 12 —Britain and France declare war upon AustriaHungary. August 7—Germans enter Liege —French invade Southern Alsace. August ' 8 neutrality. August 15 Austrians enter Servia—Japan sends ultimatum to Germany. August 17 —British expeditionary forces complete their lauding in France —Beginning of five days’ battle between Servians and Austrians on the Jadar, ending in Austrian rout. August 20 Germans enter Brussels, August 23 Germans enter Namur and begin attack on Mons —Japan declares war on Germany, August 24 British begin retreat Irom Mons. August 27—Louvain burned by the Germans —Japanese blockade Tsingtau. August 28—Naval battle off Heligoland. August 29 — Russians defeated by the Germans in three days’ battle near Tannenberg (Hast Prussia). September 2 French Government goes to Bordeaux. September 3 —Russians occupy Lemberg. September 5 Battle of the Marne begins —Germans beaten— Disorderly retreat. September 12 —German retreat halts on the Aisne September 22 German submarine sinks British cruisers Aboukir, Cressey, and Hogue— Russians capture Jaroslav and invest Przemysl. September 26 British troops from India land at Marseilles. October 2 Germans defeated by the Russians at Augustowo (East Prussian front). October g—Antwerp occupied by the Germans. October 12 —A Boer commando in the Cape Province mutinies. October 13 — Belgian Govern ment transferred from Ostend to Havre, October 14 — Allies occupy Ypres—Battle begins on the Vistula. 15 —Ostend occupied 4^ r .he Germans. October 24 — Ten days’ battle before Warsaw ends In German defeat. October 27 —South African sedition spreads—De Wet in revolt. October 29 —Turkey begins war on Russia. November 1 German naval victory off the coast of Chile (Battle of Coronel). November 3 —German squadron raids British East Coast near Yarmouth. November 5 England and France declare war on Turkey’— Dardanelles forts bombarded. November 6 Tsing-tan surrenders. November 10 —German cruiser Emden destroyed by Australian cruiser Sydney. November 16 A Holy war against the Allies proclaimed: November 19 —House of Commons votes a new army of 1,000,090 men. November 26 British battleship Bulwark destroyed by explosion in the Medway River Germans break through Russians circle near Lodz. December 2—Austrians occupy Belgrade (Servian capital) De Wet captured. December 3 —Servians turn on Austrians in three days’ battle which end in a notable Servian victory. December 6—Germans occupy Lodz. Decembers—British naval victory off Falkland Islands —British occupy Bussorah, in Asia Minor, December 13 —British submarine sinks Turkish cruiser Messudieh in Dardanelles. December 15 —Austrians evacuate Belgrade. December 16—German cruisers bombard Scarborough and Hartlepool. December 18—Egypt proclaimed a British protectorate, December 23 —British naval and -aerial raid against Cnxhaven. January x, 1915 —British battleship Formidable sunk in the Channel. January 3 French advance across Aisne north of Soissons. January 14 French driven back across Aisne River, east of Soissons, alter a week’s battle. January 19 —German air fleet bombards Yarmouth and other Norfolk coast towns. January 24 —Naval battle in North Sea, German armoured cruiser Blucher sunk. January 30-31 German sub- • marine piracy—first illegal act. February 6—Failure of German attacks west of Warsaw. February B—Beginning of battle in East Prussia, ending in Rus~ slan defeat. February 18 —=■ German submarine “blockade” of Great Brl- " tain begins, March 10—German armed liner Prinz Eitel Fredrich takes refuge in Newport News—British victory at Nauve Chapelle. March 14 German cruiser

Dresden sunk near Juan Fernandez. March xS—Three Allied battleships sunk in heavy bombardment of Dardanelles. March 22 Surrender of Przemysl. March 26—Notorious German submarine U 29, with Commander Wediggen, sunk. March 28 —German submarine sinks passenger steamer Falaba, with loss of life (American citizen killed). March 31 —Russians penetrate Dukla Pass and enter Hungary, April 9 —French victory at Les Eoarges. April 17 — British victory at Hill 60. April 25 —Allied forces lauded on both shores of Dardanelles : New Zealanders and Australians in action. April 30 American oil-tank steamer Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly Islands. May i-3 Austto-Germans break through Russian line in West Galicia and force a retreat. May 4 —Triple Alliance treaty denounced by Italy. May s—-British5 —-British lose Hill 60 near Ypres; poison clouds used by the Germans. May 6 —Russians begin retreat from Carpathian passes. May y—Cuuard liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine, with loss of nearly 1,200 lives. May 1*3 —President Wilson sends Lusitania protest to Germany. May 19—Mr Asquith announces reorganisation of Cabinet. May 23 — Italy declares war upon Austria. May 25—Italian army moves against Trieste and Trent; British battleship Triumph torpedoed In Dardanelles. May 27 British battleship Majestic torpedoed oil Gallipoli Peninsula. May 30 — German reply to American Note on Lusitania received. June 3 Austro-Germans occupy Przemysl. June 4 —Russian naval success off Gulf of Riga. June 7 —Mr Bryan, United States Secretary of State, resigns. June 11 America’s second Lusitania Note to Germany. June 13 General Mackensen breaks Russian line east of Przemysl. June 22 —Austrians enter Lemberg ; De Wet sentenced to six 3'ears for high treason. June 23 —Russians drive back Germans across Dniester ; Mr Lloyd George outlines scheme of munitions organisation. June 24 —French offensive towards Lille in progress ; Advance in the Vosges ; Mr Lloyd George’s Munitions Bill introduced. June 28—British submarine at Constantinople; great panic; British victory in Gallipoli. July I—Russians1 —Russians in retreat from Galicia ; Crown Prince attacks the French in the Argonne. July 2~Britlsh Munitions Bill passed. July 3 —Russian naval victory in the Baltic ; Crown Prince's attack on the French fails. July 8 — Heavy Russian rearguard action during retreat ; blow on German flank. July 9 pedoed. July 10 —Botha conquers German South-West Africa : heavy slaughter of Turks at Gallipoli. July 11—Italians rapture German submarine. Julj 7 12 — German note to America causes angry outburst. July- 14 —Heavy attack by Crown Prince ; French Sine bent back ; Welsh coal strike. July 16 German attack on Warsaw develops. July 18—-Russian'; retreating to the Vistnla-Bug line. July 20 —Italian Battleship torpedoed ; battle on the Vistula ; Welsh coal strike settled. July 24 —America warns Germany ; practically an ultimatum. July 25 — Warsaw in peril ; Russians still in retreat. July 26 German submarine captured. July 27 — Brutal German submarine raid on trawling fleet, check to German offensive in Poland. July 29 Russian crisis ; imminent evacuation of Warsaw. July 30 Successful development of Italian offensive-, great Austrian losses ; Russians prepare to evacuate Warsaw. August 1 — Warsaw- still safe ; desperate fighting ; Germans use flame projectors in attack on the British in Flanders.