DIARY OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 41, 5 October 1914, Page 6

DIARY OF THE WAR.

June 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 *or Servia. July 24—Austrian Army Corps got ready. Germany . states sne will hold aloof unless other powers intervene. July declares war. July 39—Austria declares war on Sorvia. July 31—British fleet sails from Por+lapd,. 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. 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—German ultimatum to Belgium. tp. facilitate thp movement of her troops. August 6—War Britain and Germany breaks ° u t- Vice-Ad-miral Jellicoe commands British Fleet. Gpripany declares war on France. Belgium invaded. August 7—E.onigin Luise sunk in the Thapies. Sir lan Hamilton commppds Army. August B—Lord Kitchener app. infsd to control British Army adt; ;;iistration.. British bank rate, f‘ par cent. British third-class cruiser struck a mine off the Thames and was sunk; 130 lives lost. August 9—German onslaught on Liogo. August 10—British hank rate, 5 per cent. August 11—Gorman submarine IT l. r . 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 Tirlpinont. Two disabled German cruisers taken intp Uong-Kong. Germans rejected Japan’s ultimatum. Russians occupied Gmnbinnen in Prussia, and. repulsed Anstrians near Satanoff. 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.