DIARY OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 20, 10 September 1914, Page 8

DIARY OF THE WAR.

Juno 29 —Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and bis wife. j u | v M)—Austria requests Servia to discover and punish organisers of the assassination plot and to prevent futuro agitation in Bosnia *or Servia. July 21—Austrian Army Corps get ready. Germany states sn« will hold aloof unless other powers intervene. July 25—Austria declares war. j u iy 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 discount rate, 10 per cent. Belgiau mobilisation. Swiss mobilisation. Italy declares neutrality. August 3—French mobilisation. August 4—Britain's warning to Germany. German advance on Liege begun. August s—German ultimatum to Belgium to facilitate the movement of her troops. August 6—War between Britain and Germany breaks out. Vice-Ad-miral Jellicoe commands British Fleet. Germany declares war <ni France. Belgium invaded. August 7—Kouigin Luise sunk in tho Thames. Sir lan Hamilton commands British Army. August B—Lord 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; 130 lives lost. August 9—German onslaught on Liege. August 10—British bank rate, 5 per cent. August 11—Gorman submarine U IS 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 Tirlemont. Two disabled Ger\i\"\\ cruisers taken into Hong-Kong. Germans rejected Japan's ultimatum. Russians occupied Gumbinnen in Prussia, and repulsed Austrians near Satanoff. Austria offered Ron ma nia 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 Gnmbinncn.

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

Augusl 26.—1/ull force of German attack delivered along Samlire Vhor from Mons 1 > Cliarleroi. Russians drove the Germans further westAugust 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 Mons. British bear brunt of six attacks. Battle opens between Douai and Maubeuge. Prolonged fighting in Lorraine. August 20.—. Residents of Fast Prussia, fleeing towards Berlin before Russian advance. Kaiser Wilhelm dor Grosse sunk. Vessels sunk by mines in the North Sea. Austrian losses in the Balkans. .British marines protect Ostend. August 31.—Naval engagement off Heligoland. German, ships sunk. Uhlans near Amiens. Indian troops en route to France. Germans fire Louvain. Russians investing Prussian fortresses.