ack from the
Belgian coast.

Oct. 27--Germans lay mines off Irish coast; British freighter Manchester
Commerce sunk; Germany demands that China release shipwrecked sailors of
submarine S-90, which was destroyed by the Germans when being pursued by
Japanese.

Oct. 28--Emden sinks Japanese steamer; Japanese cruiser Chitose repulses
attack by two German warships.

Oct. 29--Emden, flying the Japanese flag, enters Penang Harbor and sinks
Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French destroyer; Turkish warships shell
Theodosia and sink two Russian steamers; British vessels slightly
damaged off Belgian coast, with ten men killed; Swedish steamer Ornen
and two British fishing boats sunk by mine in North Sea; British sink
German steamer in the Adriatic.

Oct. 30--Russian and Turkish fleets in battle in the Black Sea; Turkish
torpedo boats bombard Odessa, sinking Russian gunboat Donets, three
Russian liners, and French steamer Portugal.

Oct. 31--Japanese and British warships attack Tsing-tau; German
submarine sinks British cruiser Hermes in Strait of Dover; Turkish
cruiser bombards Sevastopol; Russian fleet attacks Turkish fleet near
Sevastopol.

Nov. 1--German squadron under Admiral von Spee defeats British squadron
under Rear Admiral Cradock off Coronel, Chile; British flagship Good
Hope and the cruiser Monmouth go down with all on board: Germans suffer
but slightly; shelling of Allied fleets sets fire to Tsing-tau.

Nov. 2--Turkish (formerly German) cruiser Goeben damaged by fire from
Russian forts; British ship scuttled in Black Sea; Turkish commander
sinks his ship to prevent capture; Germans blockade coast of Asiatic
Turkey with mines; Karlsruhe captures British steamers Vandyck,
Hurtsdale, and Glanton.

Nov. 3--Anglo-French squadron bombards the Dardanelles forts; British
cruiser Minerva bombards Akabah, Arabia, and sailors occupy the town;
British submarine D-5 sunk by mine in North Sea.

Nov. 4--Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth sunk by Germans to prevent
seizure; Anglo-French fleet continues bombardment of Dardanelles forts;
German warships seen off coast of England; German cruiser Yorck sunk by
mine in Jade Bay.

Nov. 5--British tow German sailing ship into Queenstown, the Captain not
having heard of the war; British mine sweeper Mary sunk in North Sea.

Nov. 6--British ships shell Belgian coast; Turks bombard Batum; British
warship damaged while shelling Dardanelles forts.

Nov. 7--Japanese squadron searche