capitulate to English and French.
March 4--Landing of allied troops on both sides of Dardanelles straits
reported; German U-4 sunk by French destroyers. March 10--Battle of
Neuve Chapelle begins. March, 14--German cruiser Dresden sunk in Pacific
by English. March 18--British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and
French battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait. March 22--Fort
of Przemysl surrenders to Russians. March 23--Allies land troops on
Gallipoli peninsula. March 25--Russians victorious over Austrians in
Carpathians.
April 8--German auxiliary cruiser, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, interned at
Newport News, Va. April 16--Italy has 1,200,000 men mobilized under
arms; Austrians report complete defeat of Russians in Carpathian
campaign. April 23--Germans force way across Ypres canal and take 1,
prisoners. April 25--Allies stop German drive on Ypres line in Belgium.
April 29--British report regaining of two-thirds of lost ground in Ypres
battle.
May 7--Liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off the
coast of Ireland with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, 102 Americans.
May 9--French advance two and one-half miles against German forces north
of Arras, taking 2,000 prisoners. May 23--Italy declares war on Austria.
June 3--Germans recapture Przemysl with Austrian help. June 18--British
suffer defeat north of La Bassee canal. June 28--Italians enter Austrian
territory south of Riva on western shore of Lake Garda.
July 3--Tolmino falls into Italian hands. July 9--British make
gains north of Ypres and French retake trenches in the Vosges. July
13--Germans defeated in the Argonne. July 29--Warsaw evacuated; Lublin
captured by Austrians.
August 4--Germans occupy Warsaw. Aug. 14--Austrians and Germans
concentrate 400,000 soldiers on Serbian frontier. Aug. 21--Italy
declares war on Turkey.
September 1--Ambassador Bernstorff announces Germans will sink no more
liners without warning. Sept. 4--German submarine torpedoes liner
Hesperian. Sept. 9--Germans make air raid on London, killing twenty
persons and wounding 100 others; United States asks Austria to recall
Ambassador Dumba. Sept. 20--Germans begin drive on Serbia to open route
to Turkey. Sept. 22--Russian army retreating from Vilna, escapes German
encircling movement. Sept. 25-30--Battle of Champagne, resulting in
great advance for allied armies and causing Kaiser Wilhelm to rush to
the west front; German counter attacks repulsed.
October 5--Ru
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