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Evening Star, Issue 16032, 8 February 1916, Page 6

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A WAR DIARY FOR 1915. January 1. —H.M.S. Formidable sunk in the English Channel. January 10.—Submarine attack on Dover. January 19.—German air raid on Yarmouth and Sandringham. January 24.—Battle of the Dogger Bank. February 3.—Repulse of first Turkish attack on" Suez Canal. February s.—Germany's submarine campaign begins. March 2.—British Parliament grants additional -war votes, making the current year's total £362,000,000. March 11.—British advance at Neuve Chapelle. , March 14.—Allies announce that no merchantmen sailing after March 1 will be allowed to reach a, German port. March 16.—The Dresden sunk off Chile. March 20.—Battleships Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet mined in the Dardanelles. March 22.—Fa1l of Przemysl. March 24.—Repulse of second Turkish attack on the Suez Canal. April 13.—Violent struggle developing in tho Cai-pathians. Five Austrian armies, totalling 1,250,000 men, opposing the Russians. April 14-16.—Air-raids on Britain. April 22.—Germany, with the help of gas, drives back the Allies on the Yser. April 25.—Allies' landing on tho Gallipoli Peninsula. Germans driven back across the Yser. May 7.—Lusitania, torpedoed ; 1,399 lives lost. May 14.—H.M.S. Goliath torpedoed in Dardanelles. May 16.—Russians fall back in the Carpathians. May 19.—Lord Fisher and Mr Winston

Churchill resign. May 24.—Italy declares war on Austria. May 25.—Italians occupy Gradisca. May 26.—British Coalition Ministry an

nounced. If.M.S. Triumph sunk near Gallipoli. May 27.—H.M.5. Majestic sunk near Gallipoli. June B.—Austro-Germans recapture Przcmvsl. June 9.—Mr W. J. Bryan, United States Secretary of State, resigns. June 10.—Italians oecupv Monfalcone. June 22.—Lemberg tails.* July 2.—Russian a.'.d German naval engagement in Baltic. German battleship Pommern sunk in Baltic by British submarine. July 9.—Surrender of German S.W. Africa. July 16.—Austro-German advance on Warsaw from north and south begins. Prasnysz taken, and Russians driven back towards the Narew. July 24.—Germans cross the Narew. August 5.—-Warsaw falls. August 6-11.—British land at Suvla Bay, link up with Australasians at Anzac, and establish united front threo miles inland. August B..—General Sarrail appointed to command the French forces in Gallipoli. August 10.—German squadron repulsed at tho entrance to the Gulf of Riga. August 14.—British transport sunk in JEgean Sea ; 1,000 lives lost. August 16.—German submarine shells British coast towns. August 20.—White Star liner Arabic torpedoed. Novo Georgievsk falls. August 22.—Italy declares war on Turkey. Cotton declared absolute contraband. Naval engagement in Gulf of Riga; battle cruiser Moltko sunk by British submarine. August 26. —Extension of British line in 1 ranee. Brest-Litovsk falls. September 3.—Germans enter Grodno. September 4. —Liner Hesperian torpedoed without warning. September 9-10.—Russian successes atTarnopol and Trembovla.. September 15.—Britain and Franco ask America for a loan of £200,000,000. September 17.—Russia calls out her territorial reserves. September 19.—Serbia agree to proposed concessions to Bulgaria. September 20.—Vilna falls. September 23.—Bulgaria mobilises and announces convention with Turkey. September 24.—Greece mobilises." September 25.—Battle of Artois-Cham-pagne. September 30.—Strong Austro - German force on .Serbian frontier. Bulgaria reinforces her troops on lb at frontier. American loan to bo £100,000,000. October 4.—Russian ultimatum to Bulgaria. October 6.—Allies land troops at Salonika. M. Vonezelos resigns. October 7.—Varna bombarded by Russians. October B.—Greece decides to declare an attitude of benevolent neutrality towards the Entente. October 10.—Fierce fighting along SerboHungarian frontier. Austro-Germans cross the Danube at several points. October 11.—Austro-Germans take Belgrade. October 12.—Bulgarians cross Serbian frontier. October lo.—Russian .success in Eastern Galicia. Zeppelin raid on London; 41 people killed. October 15.—Sir John French announces that the British are using gas. October 17.—Greece announces that gho will not at present intervene in favor of Serbia. British submarines sink five enemy transports in the Baltic. October 18.—General Sarrail takes command at Salonika. Allied troops in conflict with Bulgarians at Valanovo. Rumania decides to stay strictly neutral. October 19.—Major-general Monro appointed to command at Gallipoli. Sir Edward Carson resigns from British Cabinet. Russians remvade Bukowina. Bulgarians take Vranja. October 21..—Britain offers Cyprus to Greece in. return for help in tho Balkans. October 22.—Greece rejects Britain's offer. Italian offensive on all fronts. October 25.—Bulgarians take Uskub and Veles. October 28.—Austro-Gormans link up with Bulgarians through Negotin and Orsova. October 29.—'Bulgarians tako Pirot. French Ministry reorganised under M. Briand. October 30.—Serbian Government leave ' Nish. General Joffro visits London. November I.—German attack in tho Gliampagne repulsed. November 2.—lvragujevao falls; Bulgarians within 20 miles of Nish. November s.—Mr Asquith's assurance that Serbia will not be deserted. Serbians retreating on Prilep and Monastir. November 7.—ltalian liner Ancona sunk by submarine oil Sardinia; heavy death roll. November 12.—Mr Winston Churchill resigns. November 15.—British advance at Krithia Nullah, Gallipoli. November 17.—British hospital ship Anglia sunk by mine; 75 lives lost. Lord j Kitchener in Near East. | November 18.—One hundred thousand allied troops landed at Salonika. Greek vessels detained at English ports. November 19.—Desperate fighting in Ser- ! bia. Italians advance on Goritzia. November 22.—Lord Kitchener visits King Constantino. November 24.—German Dreadnought minod in Baltic. November 25.—German cruiser sunk by Russian vessel. November 27.—Battle between French and Bulgarians. November 29. Fierco fighting round Goritzia. November 30.—Kitchener views bombardment of Goritzia. Turks use. poisonous gas. December I.—Serbians abandon Monastir. December 2.—British squadron bombards Belgian coast. December 3.—Russians invade Bukowina. December 4.—ltaly promises td help Serbia. December 6.—Turks claim victory in Mesopotamia. December 7.—Enemy prepare for great offensive in the West. December B.—Pope appeals for peace. December 9.—French submarine sunk by Austrian warship. December 10.—Von dcr Goltz to attack India. December 13.—Record recruiting in England. December 14.—Turkish transport torpedoed.

December 16.—British fleet bombards Belgian coast. December 17.—Sir John • French relinquishes command. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds him. December 18.—Germany prepares for offensive East and West. December penetrate German line-; near Riga. German cruiser - sunk. December 22—Anzac and Suvla troops ■withdrawn. December 23.—Varna reported shelled by Russians. December 24.—General Sir C. Carmicbael Monro appointed to command First Army in France. German powder factories blown up. December 25.—Austro-Germans experience. great difficulties in Montenegro. December 27.—Germans prepare for attack on Suez Canal. December 28.—Fierce artillery duels south of Arras. December 29.—Senussi rising. New Zealanders and Sikhs engaged. December 31.—French success at Hartman's Weilerkopf. Majority in Cabinet support Mr Asquith in compulsion. Two Austrian destroyers sunk in Adriatic.