DIARY OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 42, 6 October 1914, Page 3

DIARY OF THE WAR.

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 tropps -landed in France. August 19.—Russians repelled Germans in Prussia and Austrians in Galicia. August 20.—Germans captured Diest and Tirlemont. Two disabled German cruisers taken into Hong-Kong. Germans rejected Japan’s ultimatum. Russians occupied Gumbinnen in Prussia, and repulsed Austrians 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. i

(August 25.—Report of British success in battle at Mons; Germans driven back. Desperate battle still raging. Fall of Namur. Servians scored brilliant victoiy *• Drina. August 26.—Fu1l force of ,Gei man attack delivered along Sambro River from Mons to Charleroi. Russians drove the Germans further westward. August 27.—Battle of Sambro 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 brpnt of six attacks. Battle opens between Douai and Maubeuge. Prolonged lighting in Lorraine. * August 29.—Residents of East Prussia fleeing towards Berlin before Russian advance. Kaiser Wilhelm der 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. September I.—German Samoa surrenders to the British Navy, and is occupied by the New Zealand hirst Expeditiqnary Force. Hot fighting in the Meuse 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 oi £8,000,000 guaranteed by millionaires. Russian advance in Galicia. September .3.—German advance on Paris. -Fighting all tile way. Great defeat of Austrians by Russians. September 6.—Russian successes tn the eastern frontier. Take 70,000 prisoners. September 9.—Allies succeed in checking the advance of the German apmy. September 11 and 12.—German retirement all along the line in I ; - ance continued. Renewed Russian successes on the eastern frontier. September 13.—Retreat of German forces in France and Belgium developing into a rout. Renewed Russian successes in the German eastern frontier, on a large scale. September 16.—Heavy fighting at, Soissons. German armies concentrating in France. Sympathetic demonstrations in Italy in favor of the Allies. ColossaH'Xustrian dosses. September 17. —Further lighting m, France. The enemy give way slightly. Germany .hastening troops,to meet the Russian invasion. Russian armie: converging on Przemysl. One arm} only 19 miles away. September 21.—Destruction of five British merchantmen by German crui ser. Fierce fighting still going on n France. Russian warships reported damaged. Montenegrins advance oSerajcvo. Russians bombard Grpstav and commence operations at Przemysl