s for German squadron in the Pacific;
Russians bombard Turkish Black Sea ports.
Nov. 8--Russians report sinking of four Turkish transports; Turks sink
Greek steamer carrying British flag; two Dardanelles forts destroyed by
bombardment.
Nov. 9--Emden escapes British warship, but loses her store ships;
Russians bombard Bosporus ports; Swedish steamer Ate blown up by mine.
Nov. 10--Australian cruiser Sydney wrecks German cruiser Emden, which
had destroyed more than $5,000,000 worth of British shipping; war risks
drop in consequence; British Admiralty reports that the German cruiser
Koenigsberg has been bottled up in the Rufiji River, German East Africa.
Nov. 11--British torpedo boat Niger sunk by German submarine; Japanese
torpedo boat sunk by mine in Kiao-Chau Bay.
Nov. 12--Turkish torpedo boat captured by Allies; Turkish cruiser Goeben
crippled by shell.
Nov. 14--News comes to America by mail of the sinking of the British
super-dreadnought Audacious on Oct. 27 off the Irish coast; apparently
done by a mine.
Nov. 15--Many mines picked up by Dutch coast guards; mine layer flying
Norwegian flag and manned by German sailors captured at Belfast; British
cruiser Edinburgh aids in capture of Turba, Arabia, by Indian troops.
Nov. 16--Mine cast up by sea kills seven in Holland.
Nov. 17--Swedish steamer Andrew sunk by mine in North Sea; German
squadron bombards Libau; Russian Black Sea fleet attacks Trebizond;
German cruiser Berlin interns at Trondhjem to escape enemy.
Nov. 19--British naval guns bombard Dixmude; French cruiser Waldeck
Rousseau sinks Austrian submarine.
Nov. 20--Austrian steamer Metkovitch sunk by mine off Dalmatian coast.
Nov. 21--The Goeben badly damaged in Black Sea.
Nov. 22--Turkish warships shell Taupse, but are repulsed by Russian land
batteries.
Nov. 23--British warship Patrol rams German submarine U-18 and captures
crew off coast of Scotland; German destroyer S-124 wrecked in collision
with Danish steamer.
Nov. 24--French bark Valentine sunk by Germans near Island of Mas a
Fuera; British ships attack German naval base at Zeebrugge.
Nov. 25--British steamer Malachite sunk by German submarine near Havre.
Nov. 26--British battleship Bulwark blown up in the Thames; magazine
explosion is the accepted theory, but there is some suspicion that it
was the work of spies; Turkish mine layer sunk in the Bosphorus; cruiser
Goeben is being repaired.
Nov. 27--British collier Kharto
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