p. Sept. 2--Government of
France transferred to Bordeaux; Russians capture Lemberg. Sept.
4--Germans cross the Marne. Sept. 5--England, France, and Russia sign
pact to make no separate peace. Sept. 6--French win battle of Marne;
British cruiser Path finder sunk in North sea by a German submarine.
Sept. 7--Germans retreat from the Marne. Sept. 14--Battle of Aisne
starts; German retreat halted. Sept. 15---First battle of Soissons
fought. Sept. 20--Russians capture Jaroslau and begin siege of Przemysl.

October 9-10--Germans capture Antwerp. Oct. 12--Germans take Ghent. Oct.
20--Fighting along Yser river begins. Oct. 29--Turkey begins war on
Russia.

November 7--Tsingtro falls before Japanese troops. Nov. 9--German
cruiser Emden destroyed.

December 11--German advance on Warsaw checked. Dec. 14--Belgrade
recaptured by Serbians. Dec. 16--German cruisers bombard Scarborough,
Hartlepool, and Whitby, on English coast, killing fifty or more persons;
Austrians said to have lost upwards of 100,000 men in Serbian defeat.
Dec. 25--Italy occupies Avlona, Albania.

January 1--British battleship Formidable sunk. Jan. 8--Roumania
mobilizes 750,000 men; violent fighting in the Argonne. Jan. 11--Germans
cross the Rawka, thirty miles from Warsaw. Jan. 24--British win naval
battle in North sea. Jan. 29--Russian army invades Hungary; German
efforts to cross Aisne repulsed.

February 1--British repel strong German attack near La Bassee. Feb.
2--Turks are defeated in attack on Suez canal. Feb. 4--Russians capture
Tarnow in Galicia. Feb. 8--Turks along Suez canal in full retreat;
Turkish land defenses at the Dardanelles shelled by British torpedo
boats. Feb. 11--Germans evacuate Lodz. Feb. 12--Germans drive Russians
from positions in East Prussia, taking 26,000 prisoners. Feb.
14--Russians report capture of fortifications at Smolnik. Feb.
16--Germans capture Plock and Bielsk in Poland; French capture two miles
of German trenches in Champagne district.

February 17--Germans report they have taken 50,000 Russian prisoners in
Mazurian lake district. Feb. 18--German blockade of English and French
coasts put into effect. Feb. 19-20--British and French fleets bombard
Dardanelles forts. Feb. 21--American steamer Evelyn sunk by mine in
North sea. Feb. 22--German war office announces capture of 100,
Russian prisoners in engagements in Mazurian lake region; American
steamer Carib sunk by mine in North sea. Feb. 28--Dardanelles entrance
forts