t.
Aug. 30--British official account of battle off Heligoland; New Zealand
expeditionary force captures Apia.
Aug. 31--German gunboat shells abandoned Japanese destroyer at
Kiao-Chau.
Sept. 2--British and French ships again bombard Cattaro; steam drifter
Eyrie sunk by mine in North Sea.
Sept. 4--British cruiser sinks Austrian steamer Bathori in Bay of
Biscay; British gunboat Speedy sunk by mine in North Sea; British
steamship Bowes Castle sunk by German cruiser off St. Lucia.
Sept. 5--German ships sink fifteen British trawlers in North Sea.
Sept. 6--Cruiser Pathfinder destroyed by mine.
Sept. 7--British submarine strikes German warships in Bremerhaven
Harbor.
Sept. 10--British capture German, collier.
Sept. 11--Germans destroy Russian steamer Uleaborg.
Sept. 12--Australian Navy occupies Herbertshoehe in Bismarck
Archipelago; British take German coal ship Heinze.
Sept. 14--Germans capture Fanning Island and cable station; German
cruiser Hela sunk.
Sept. 17--German fleets fire on each other in Baltic by mistake; British
cruiser seizes Holland-America, liner Ryndam: French cruiser Conde
captures German storeship Helna; Canadian Pacific liner made a British
cruiser in Pacific; German cruiser Luxemburg reported to have sunk three
British freighters in West Indies.
Sept. 19--Australian submarine AE-1 lost; Austrian warship Viribus
Unitis damaged in Adriatic.
Sept. 20--Carmania sinks German merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar; German
cruiser Koenigsberg disables British cruiser Pegasus; fighting between
British and German ships in Kamerun River, Africa; six British ships
captured by German cruiser Emden; damaged Russian warships arrive at
Helsingfors; Austrian torpedo boat 27 sunk at Pola; German cruiser
Stettin fights British warships.
Sept. 21--British steamer Clan Matheson sunk by German cruiser Emden;
crews of six captured vessels landed in India.
Sept. 22--British cruiser Berwick captures Hamburg-American liner
Spreewald and two German colliers; German submarine U-9 sinks British
cruisers Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue in North Sea; British steamer
Belgian King sunk near Cape Kureli.
Sept. 23--Russian cruiser Bayan sinks German cruiser and two torpedo
boats; Germany says submarine U-9 sunk British ships unaided in North
Sea fight yesterday; Austrian cruisers Maria Theresia and Admiral Staun
damaged; trawler Kilmarnock sunk by mine.
Sept. 24--Two Austrian torpedo boats and one destroyer sun
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