WAR DIARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 6

WAR DIARY.

-■ —-; ; EVENTS_M BRIEF. £ T June 2S.—Assassination of Arebdukel Francis Ferdinand and his wife at* Serajevo by a Servian. July 23.—Presentation to . Scraia —of Austrian Note. July 2S. —Austria declares wacf=against Servia. July 29.—Belgrade bombardwL Germany attempts*to bargain f on Britain's neutrality. •' i .August I.—Germany declares war on, Russia, violates neutrality of Luxemburg, and crosses French frontier. Italy declan ' neutrality. August 1-3.—Dominions offer contingents to Britain. August 4.—War between Britain-»and Germany breaks out. (ierma-_*-ia'tttack Liege. Russians invade East Prussia. August r3.—First Russian army-rnvades. Austria. August 14.—Bombardment of Namur begins. JA-Bgust 15.—Austrians defeated on Servian frontier. Czar promises freedom: to Poland. "August 1"-—Belgian%Government moved, to Antwerp. J_"ugDst IS.—.A"us-bralian contingent embarks for New Guinea. British Expeditionary Force lands..in France. August 20. —Germans occupy Brussels.; Russian victory" at Gumbinnen. "august 2_.—First great battle begins on westernvfront ai_-Mons. Charleroi. and • Namur. British marines occupy Os- '■ tend. iftngnst 24.—Tapan-declares war on Ger- ' many. Japanese bombard Kiao-Chau— ,_Austrians abandon campaign against ■ Servia. S-ngnst 23. —Allies" left retires on Cam-brai-Landreeies fine. Namur falls. _Lngust 26. —Desperate struggle on ■ .Allies'" left wing, and fighting along ""•whole iront- Seven-day battle at " ' ""Lemberg begins. *_ngusfc 27.—French Cabinet reconstructed ore-non-party basis. Russia's mobU"f isatioai of 6.000.000-men. complete. _Rus- * sians occupy Tilsit. August 2S.—British light cruiser squad-Toiu»-with desfcroye-rs. sinks three Geranaii cruisers and two destroyers--off ' Heligoland. Sack of Lonvain. ■August 29.—Russian army invests* Konigsfcirg. British-New Zealand expfditjorc -captures Samoa. "tagnst-**3L:—Allies" line poshed back from the Saattbre- to the Somme. Russians ■"-"_,pp-rr_-e&iT"hr-T_-a-nd Grandenz. • September 1. —Paris prepares for siege. . "September 3.—French seat of govern- ' ment removed- to Bordeaux. _"epte3nber-4.—Fall of Lemberg. German patrols-wi_uinJ—miles-of outer-forti-fica"tions-oi Paris. September--"".—British, French, and Russian Gop<s3nnents undertake not to seek peace, or oSscuss. terms separately. Cteptember <s.—Battle of the Marne begins. Austrian defeat in Poland. September S.—Large German force reaches Posen. September 10j—Right of the ii-rva—n-g' German army defeated in battle-of the Marne. September 11. —German New Guinea captured by Australian Expedition. B"uss"_ns defeat A-a-stxiaffijind German armies at Krasniz and Austria-US near Lemberg. September 13. —Russians. surround Prze.rmysl and Cracow. September 14.—Germans evacuate Amiens. Russians—suspend: invasion of East Prussia. September 15.—Allies i force the Aisne crossings. September I".—German "line driven iback still farther in France. September 19.—Loss of submarine AEI. September 20.—Rheims- Cathedral bombarded. September 21.—Germans' right centre repulsedsat Craonue. September 22. —Three British cruisers sunk by German submarines in the •iJZNorth Sea. Sera "cv». "besieged by Bos-r-fe-nians and Servians. Russians occupy Jaroslav. September 23.—Allies'' left advancesAeroplane raid into Germany by air- ' men of British naval "wing. ■ "September 24.—Series of German re- ' pulses north of tbe Aisne. German ■ cruiser Emden shells Madras. Australian expedition occupies Kaiser Wilhelmslaad. September 26. —Japanese* occupy Shan--tung railway. -October I.—Austrian army.'surrounded in Galicia, and Germans defeated in . Poland. October 4.—America announces that Hague Peace Conference has been • abandoned. "October o. —Russians claim victory at Augustowo and Germans at Suwalki. October (>.—-Japan seizes Marchall and other "elands in north-west Pacific. October S. —Belgian Government transferred to Ostend. -Aeroplane raid on iDusseldorf. October 13. —Russians checked in Galicia. Germane capture Lille. Allies take the offensive near Betihune. October 1-L —Revolt in South ' Africa. (Belgian Government transferred to - Havre. October 15.—Allies occupy Vpres: Cana- ] dian contingent reaches Britain. Oetober-16.—General. Botha takes the offensive against South African rebels. Germans occupy Blankenberghe. British cruiser sunk by German submarine ] in North Sea. - October 17. —British warships sink four German destroyers. ' Ociober'2l.-British warships f-hell German position* on Belgian coast. Emden 1 sinks seven British merchantmen. October 23. —'Russian* gain a great victory on the Vistula. Austrian repulse on the San. October 23. — Karlsruhe thinks British 1 merchantmen. October 26. — rVmtinnous fighting on western front, from Arras to the coast. Russians take 'Lowicz and two other Polish town". Oot'/bor "77.— Indian troop* in action on wes"ern front. Kaiser orders capture oi ('alais at all costs. October 2R.—Calais ptill uncaptured. De Wet and Beyers join South African rebels. Ortober 29.—Botha defeats South African rebel force, ''ermans claim progress west of LiTle. October 30.—Russian success near Warsaw. Prince Louis of Battenberg, F':r-t Sea Lord, resigns. October 31. —Germans driven out of lower valley of the Vser. Allien prosouth of Arra-s. :ind round Vpres. Bedouins made desert east of Sue? Canal. November I.—British eruL-er torpedoed and sunk in Straits of Dover. "Kovember 3.—German,, instal 20.4 inch ' guns on Borkum 'IslandEovember 4.—AHjed vesseis bombard the ' German* abandon left ■•■flS"*" 1 --*.- 1 Yser » -*-<* lAilies recapture

'.November s.—Good Hope and Monmouth 1 sunk by German squadron off Yalpa- I xait-o. Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes <"yprus. •November 7.-Tri'ing-tau falls. Russian -. ictory in Galicia. "November o.—Fighting renewed along the Aisne. H.'M.A.s. Sydney taken the. OCmden. November 11.—Germans capture Dixmude. Russians within sight of Cracow. November 14.—Death of Lord Roberts at St. Omer. November 15.—Russian progress in East Prussia continue*;. Fighting at Kalicz. South Atrican rebels again defeated. Sovember 10.—British Parliament agrees to war vote of £225,000.000. and to the levy of another million men. Prince of Wales goes to the rfont. November IS.—Japan hands over to Australia islands taken from Germany In North-west Pacific. November 19.—Germans claim a victory in East Prussia. Fierce fighting in Poland. November 23. — Russian victor at Cracow. De Wet on the run in South Africa. Kaiser again ordeTs capture of Calais at all costs. •November 25.—Calais still safe. British -warships bombard German positions on Belgian coast. Failure of German attack in Aisne district. November 38. — Russian success between Vistula and Warta: part ot German army surrounded. December "2.—Surrounded German troops break through the Russians east of Ixidz. Russian advance in the Carpathians. Austrians take Belgrade. December 3. —Australians disembarked in Egypt. De Wet captured. December 7.—Germans capture Lodz. Servian victory near Belgrade. December 9. ■ — Sella rnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Leipzie sunk by Admiral Sturdee's squadron off Falkland Islands. ■December 12. —Allies regain ground west of Ypres. "December 15.—Servians re-enter Belgrade. Allies progress along Yser Canal and Austrians massing in the Carpathians. "December 16.—German cruisers shell unfortified English coast towns and escape. Italian Cabinet given full power to deal with the foreign situation. December 17.—Egy-pt declared a British protectorate. German attack in Poland. Servia clear of Austrian?. December 20.—1„.5t of South African leaders captured. December 21.—Allies make progress in Flanders. Germans checked north of the Vistula, but successful in Central Poland: and Austrian advance in Galicia checked. Turks evacuate Sinai. ■December 24.—'French Chamber of Deputies votes a war credit of £240.000,----000. December 25—British cruisers and seaplams raid Cuxhaven. December 26—Ineffectual aeroplane raid on Britain. British airman drops bombs on three German military posts in Belgium. Other air raids on Nancy and in Poland. Italian bluejackets occupy Valona. December 2S—United States protests against the treatment of her commerce by British warships. December 30—Lull on eastern and western battle fronts. December 31—German air raid on Dunkirk. January I—South African Union calls out Reserves. January 2.—Attack on Egypt abandoned. January 4.-Turks routed at Sarykamish. January s.—French successes in Upper Alsace. Russian array pursues the Austrians on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians. Russian victory at Sarakaniish. in Asia Minor. January 6.—'H.M.A.s. Australia captures German supply ship. January 13.—Submarine attack on . Dover. German success north of Soissons. Resignation of Count Berchtold, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs. | January 16.—South African Union forces j occupy Swakopmund. the harbour of j German South-West Africa. January 10.—German air raid on Yar- I mouth and Sandringham. . January 23, —German air raid on Dunkirk. January 24.—German armoured cruiser l sunk, and two battle cruisers seriously damaged by Vice-Admiral Beatty's ] squadron in the North Sea. I January 27.—Fighting with Turkish out- | posts at El Kantara. 28 miles from Port Said. Troops and warships assembling in the Canal. January 28. —Russians resume offensive in East Prussia. January 31.—Submarine attacks on British merchantmen begun. February 2.—Germans resume the offensive, with larg" forces, in Poland. Lively artillery uuels on western front Italian reservists ordered to get ready to join the colours. February .*".—Repulse of Turkish troops on Suez Canal at three points, in moderate strength. February 4.—Violent German effort to recover the Great Dune at Lombaertzyde. Hungary forbids export of grain to Austria. H.M.A.S. Australia sinks German liner off Patagonia. • February 6.—Germany institutes a paper blockade of Britain. February B.—'British Under-Secretary of i State for War announces that recruit - I ing is satisfactory. and that there is no cause for disquiet. Fighting along i the whole front in the Carpathians. [February 9.—Germany says she expects neutrals to show the same con-ddfra-tion for her vital interests as for Britain's. No enemy forces within 20 miles of the Suez Canal. February 10.—Germans operate in force in East Prussia. Austro-German defeat in the Carpathians reported. I February 12.—Russians repulse 22 attacks in the Carpathians. February 13. —Russians fall back in East Prussia before overwhelming German forces. British airmen, to the number ol" 34. make raid on positions at Ostend. Brujres. Blankenberghe, and Zeebrugge. and indict damage. February 17.—Forty British aeroplanes t and seaplanes did more damage to the enemy* positions along the coast of Belgium. British steamer and a French steamer sunk in the Channel by German submarines. February IS.—Neutrals protest against ('erman proclamation of a submarine blockade iigainst Great Britain, and intention to sink all steamers. February 21.—British and French battlesliips attack the Dardanelles forts. Several steamers sunk by German submarines. February 2i.—('erman airmen make ineffective air mid over Essex. February 23.—Norwegian steamer Regin torpedoed by ("erman submarine. February 24.—Russians admit losimr an army corps in the retreat from East Prussia before overwhelming odds. Three steamers sunk by en-emy's sub- j marines. ' ! February 2fi.—Allies' warships renew attack on Dardanelles forts, four of j - .

i February 27.—The Russians throw the j Germans back across the Niemen. February 28.—Novwejrian steamer sinks a German submarine off Beaehy Head. Allied warships penetrate seven miles up the Dardanelles. • March o.— French warships sink a (Jerman submarine in the Channel. British destroyers rain and sink German submarine CS, the crew l>eing saved. March 7. —Greek Cabinet resigns, the King insisting on the maintenance of neutrality. March 10.—Three British steamers sunk off the coast of England by German submarines. March 11.—British destroyers ram and sink German submarine I 12. the crew heing saved. March 13.—British merchant cruiser Bny\iio suns by Gorman submarine, over 100 of the crew bein>; lost. British capture Neuve Chapelle with a dashing charge. March 14. —H.M.s. Glasgow and Kent and the Orama sink Dresden off .luan F'ornandez. saving the crew. March 15.—French victory at the village of Vauquois, 17 mile.* from Verdun." March 17. —Russian success in liukowina. Great Britain replies to American Note and declines to relax blockade ! of German ports.