rks lose equipment.

Dec. 22--Arabs menace Christians in Hodeida; French Consul is seized.

Dec. 23--Turkish Army leaves Damascus and marches toward Suez Canal.

Dec. 25--Russo-Turkish operations stopped by cold.

Jan. 1--Turks invade Russia but fail to envelop Russian forces.

Jan. 2--Turks penetrate into the Russian Caucasus and occupy Ardahan.

Jan. 4--Turks ravage Persian territory.

Jan. 5--Russians rout Turkish columns at Ardahan and Sari-Kamysh;
Russians capture Izzet Pasha.

Jan. 7--Turks occupy Urumiah.

NAVAL RECORD.

Oct. 16--British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine U-9; British
tramp steamship Induna sunk by Germans; British steamer Guendolen fires
on German ship on Lake Nyassa; British and Japanese warships bombard
fort near Tsing-tau.

Oct. 17--British squadron, led by the Undaunted, sinks four German
torpedo-boat destroyers off Dutch coast; allied fleets bombard Cattaro.

Oct. 19--British battleship Triumph damaged at Tsing-tau; Japanese
cruiser Takachiho sunk by German submarine S-90 in Kiao-Chau Bay;
British fleet helps to repel German land attacks between Nieuport and
Dixmude; Austrian submarine sunk in Adriatic by French cruiser.

Oct. 20--German warships sink British submarine E-3; British gunboats
fight German submarines and coast batteries; Japanese fleet takes
islands of Marianne group; two German ships sunk at Jaluit; British
steamer Giltera sunk by German submarine off Norwegian coast.

Oct. 21--British monitors Severn and Mersey shell German right flank;
Cattaro again bombarded by French fleet, attack of Austrian submarines
being repulsed; German cruiser Emden sinks five British steamships and
captures a sixth in Indian Ocean; British steamer Cormorant sunk.

Oct. 22--British torpedo boat damaged by German artillery fire off
Nieuport; French ships aid British in bombardment near Ostend; British
auxiliary cruiser Carmania damaged.

Oct. 23--Allies' squadrons seeking German cruisers Emden and Karlsruhe;
Emden's activity is having a bad effect on Indian shipping; French ships
aid British in shelling Belgian coast towns.

Oct. 24--British destroyer Badger sinks German submarine; Ostend
bombarded by French warships.

Oct. 25--Japanese sink German cruiser Aeolius off Honolulu.

Oct. 26--Vessel containing French and Belgian refugees sunk near Calais,
probably by a mine, the passengers being rescued by a British ship;
Germans claim that the British ships have been driven b