DIARY OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 6

DIARY OF THE WAR.

Juno 29—Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. July 10—Austria requests Servia to discover and punish organisers of the assassination plot and to prevent future agitation in Bosnia f or Servia. July 24—Austrian Army Corps get ready. Germany states ane will hold aloof unless other powers intervene. July 25—Austria declares war. July 30—Austria declares war on Servia.

July 31—British fleet sails from Portland. Belgrade bombarded. Russian mobilisation reported, August I—Germany demands explanation of Russian mobilisation. London Stock Exchange closed. August 2—Germany declares war on Russia. Bank of England discountrate, 10 per cent. Belgian mobilisation. Swiss mobilisation. Italy declares neutrality. August 3—French mobilisation. August 4—Britain’s warning to Germany. German advance on Liege begun. August s—Geiman ultimatum to Belgium to facilitate tho movement of her troops. August 6—War between Britain and Germany breaks' out. Vice-Ad-miral Jellicoe commands British Fleet. Germany declares war on France. Belgium invaded. August 7—Konigin Luise sunk in the Thames. Sir lan Hamilton com-' mauds British Army. August B—Loyd Kitchener appointed to control British Army administration. British bank rate, 6 per cent. British third-class cruiser struck a mine off'the Thames and was sunk f 130 lives lost. August. 9—German onslaught Liege. August 10—British bank rate, 5 per cent.

August 11—German submarine U 15 sunk by British cruiser Birmingham. August 12—War between France and Austria and Great Britain and Austria declared. August 14—Admiralty secures trade routes. First New Zealand Contingent leaves. August 15—Russia’s concentration on the Galician frontier completed. August 17—Japan delivers ultimatum to Germany. August 18. —French mobilisation completed. Servians defeated Austrian

army at Shabatz. British troops landed in France.

August 19.—Russians repelled Germans in Prussia and Austrians in Galicia.

August 20.—Germans captured Diest and Tirlenibut. Two disabled German cruisers taken into Hong-Kong. Germans rejected Japan’s ultimatum. Russians occupied Gurabinnen in Prussia, and repulsed Austrians near Satanotf. Austria offered Roumania and Bulgaria territory if they would assist her.

August 21.—Brussels occupied by Germans. French advanced into Lorraine. August 22.—Bitter conflict in Alsace. Austrian battleship sunk in the Adriatic. August 23.—Battle in Belgium. Austrians defeated by Servians near Loznitza. French retook Mulhausen. Japan declared war on Germany. August 24.—Germans advanced on Lille. Russians now 37 miles in Germany. Russians defeated Germans in battle at Gumbinnen.

August 25.—Report of British success in battle at Mons; Germans driven back. Desperate battle still raging. Fall of Namur. Servians scored brilliant victory at Drina.

August 26.—Fu1l force of German attack delivered along Sambre River from Mens to Charleroi. Russians drove the Germans further westward. August 27.—Battle of Sambre continued. Over two thousand British casualties. Russians advance in East Prussia. Reported destruction of Austrian forts at Cattaro. August 28.—Further fighting round Mens. British bear brunt of six attacks. Battle opens between Douai and Maubeuge. Prolonged fighting in Lorraine. August 29.—Residents of East Prussia fleeing towards Berlin before Russian advance. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosso sunk. Vessels sunk by mines in the North Sea. Austrian losses in the Balkans, British marines protect Osfiend, August 31.—Naval engagement off Heligoland, German ships sunk. Uhlans near Amiens. Indian troops on route to Franco. Germans fire Louvain. Russians investing Prussian fortresses. September I.—German Samoa surrenders to the British NavyAand is occupied by the New Zealand-First Expeditionary Force. Hot fighting in the Meuse Valley. British losses at Mons estimated between five and six thousand. Citizens of Louvain butchered by the Germans. General battle in South Poland. September 2.—German retreat on Allies’ right. Brussels ransom of £8,000,000 guaranteed by millionaires. Russian advance in Galicia.