[English Cartoon] Great German Naval Victory -From The Bystander, London.. How the Commander of U-99 Won His Iron Cross. 201 Cadorna telegraphs: "In spite of the severe rains and terrible thunder showers we hope soon to reach dry land." Chronology of the War Showing Progress of Campaigns on All Fronts and Collateral Events From August 12, 1915, Up to and Including September 12, 1915. Aug. 13-Germans Litovsk. CAMPAIGN IN EASTERN EUROPE advance toward Brest Aug. 15-Germans are approaching Kovno; Germans defeat Russians near Kubisko; Austrians advance along the Bug River; Austrians resume bombardment of Belgrade. Aug. 17-Germans capture southwest front of Kovno, with 4,500 men and 240 guns. Aug. 18-Germans take Kovno and 400 cannon; Vilna is being evacuated; two more forts of Novo Georgievsk fall; Mackensen's forces cross the Bug for the attack on Brest-Litovsk. Aug. 19-Germans take Aug. 22-Severe artillery fighting in the Arras region. Aug. 26-Germans are again shelling Rheims. Aug. 28-French artillery silences German guns at four points in the Argonne Sept. 8-Germans begin new offensive on western approaches to Verdun. Sept. 9-German Crown Prince's army gains in Argonne district. Sept. 10-Germans win trench at Schratzmennele with asphyxiating shells. more Novo Aug. two Georgievsk forts; Austro-German forces penetrate the outer defenses of BrestLitovsk. Aug. 20-Germans 'capture Novo Georgievsk, with 700 cannon and a huge store of supplies. Aug. 23-Germans capture Ossowetz. Aug. 26-Austro-Germans take Brest-Litovsk, the Russians evacuating it; Germans take Bialystok, also evacuated by the Russians. Aug. 28-Austrians take offensive in Southeastern Galicia and pierce the Russian line at two points. Aug. 30-Mackensen starts a turning movement in the far south, while Hindenburg pushes for Riga. Aug. 31-Russians check Teutonic allies in Austrian trenches in the Tolmino and Carso regions with the bayonet. Aug. 22-Italians gain ground on the Carso TURKISH CAMPAIGN. Aug. 15-Russians advance in the Caucasus. Aug. 16-Turks recapture the town of Van on the Caucasian front from the Russians. Aug. 17-Russians again take Van and make other gains. Aug. 25-Allies advance on the Gallipoli Peninsula along a twelve-mile front. Aug. 31-German reports state that the British have lost 50,000 men at the Dardanelles since Aug. 6. Sept. 1-Allies now command the BuvukAnafarta Valley on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Sept. 11-Russians repulse Turks on several positions on Caucasus front. Sept. 12-Turks are defeated near Olti. NAVAL RECORD-GENERAL. Aug. 17-Austrian fleet of twenty-one vessels bombards the island of Pelagosa, in the Adriatic: four Italian soldiers killed. German Aug. 21-Russian fleet defeats a fleet which enters the Gulf of Riga. Aug. 22-Two French torpedo boats sink a German torpedo boat destroyer off Ostend. Aug. 23-British fleet of thirty ships shells Zeebrugge. Aug. 25-German cruisers bombard signal stations near Riga. Sept. 7-British squadron bombards German batteries on the Belgian coast. Sept. 11-Italian, British, and French warships attack points close to Smyrna. NAVAL RECORD-SUBMARINES. Aug. 13-German submarine torpedoes and sinks British transport Royal Edward in the Aegean Sea, 1,000 men being lost. Aug. 19-German submarine torpedoes and sinks, without warning, the White Star liner Arabic southeast of Fastnet; among the fifty-four persons lost are two American passengers. Aug. 21-British Admiralty states that the submarine F-13 went aground on the Danisn island of Saltholm and was attacked by a German torpedo boat, which killed fourteen of the crew. Sept. 2-British submarines torpedo four Turkish transports in the Dardanelles. Sept. 3-Authoritative Paris reports state that the Germans have lost fifty-four submarines; German submarines sink British steamers Roumanie and Churston. Sept. 4 German submarine torpedoes without warning the westbound Allan liner Hesperian off the Irish coast; ten passengers and sixteen members of crew, one of whom was an American, dead or missing. Sept. 7-Germans report loss of submarine U-27; German submarines sink French steamship Bordeau, British steamship Dictator, and Norwegian bark Storesand. a Aug. 26-British Aerial Squadron Commander Bigsworth, single-handed, sinks German submarine off the Belgian coast by dropping a bomb upon it, according to British announcement; Germans deny the submarine is sunk. Aug. 28-French aviators repel six German aeroplanes which attempt to bombard Paris, destroying one of the machines; allied aeroplanes shell German positions in Belgian towns near the coast. Sept. 6-Forty French aeroplanes bombard Saarbrücken. Sept. 7-German airships raid eastern coast of England; ten persons are killed and forty-three wounded; French aviators attack Freiburg. Sept. 8-Zeppelins again raid eastern coast of England and London district; twenty persons are killed and eighty-six injured. Sept. 12-Zeppelins raid eastern coast of England; no casualities or damages. GERMANY. Aug. 15-German Embassy at Washington makes public a memorandum charging that British merchantmen in sixty-two instances have improperly flown American and other neutral flags. GREAT BRITAIN. Aug. 15-National registration day throughout the United Kingdom, every person between 15 and 65 having to fill out blanks giving personal facts to enable Government to gauge labor resources and the number of men available for military service. Aug. 21-Great Britain issues a declaration, in which France joins, making cotton absolute contraband. Sept. 7-Government is ready to release American-owned cargoes of German and Austrian goods. HOLLAND. Sept. 8-Sentries fire at Zeppelin flying over Dutch territory. ITALY. Aug. 17-Italy demands that Turkey immediately release reservists and other Italian subjects at Turkish ports. Aug. 21-Italy declares war on Turkey. RUSSIA. Sept. 7-Czar Nicholas takes command of the army. UNITED STATES. Aug. 15-Text is made public of a note from the United States to Austria, in reply to an Austrian note of June 29, stating that the United States will not stop the shipment of munitions to Europe. Aug. 16-United States sends note to Germany accepting plan for fixing damages for the William P. Frye and asking about. future conduct toward American ships. Sept. 1-Germany gives a written promise to the United States, in a letter from Ambassador von Bernstorff to Secretary Lansing, that she will sink no more liners without warning. Sept. 9-United States sends note to AustriaHungary asking that Ambassador Dumba be recalled for attempt to cripple Amercan industries; Germany sends note to the United States defending sinking of the Arabic and suggesting arbitration of indemnity. |