um blown up by mine off Grimsby.

Nov. 28--Norwegian and Danish trawlers seized by the British for laying
mines while using English port as base; British fishermen sweep coast
waters for mines.

Nov. 30--British ships again bombard Zeebrugge.

Dec. 3--Danish steamer Mary blown up by mine in North Sea, six men
dying.

Dec. 6--Forty British and French war vessels are off the Dardanelles.

Dec. 7--British steamer Charcas sunk by German transport in the Pacific;
Swedish ships Luna and Everilda sunk by mines.

Dec. 8--British squadron under Vice Admiral Sturdee defeats German
squadron under Admiral von Spee off the Falkland Islands; German
flagship Scharnhorst and the cruisers Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Nurnberg
are sunk; the British casualties are slight.

Dec. 9--Three German merchantmen sunk in South Atlantic; Gulf of Bothnia
closed because of mines.

Dec. 10--German submarine raid on Dover repulsed by the forts; Turkish
gunboat sunk by defense mine.

Dec. 12--Turkish fleet bombards Batum.

Dec. 14--British submarine B-11, by diving under five rows of mines,
sinks Turkish battleship Messudieh in the Dardanelles.

Dec. 15--German cruiser Cormorant interned at Guam; Turks bombard
Sevastopol.

Dec. 16--German warships shell the English coast towns of Scarborough,
Hartlepool, and Whitby; about 120 persons are killed and 550 wounded;
British warships shell Westende.

Dec. 17--Austrian training ship Beethoven sunk by mine; British squadron
bombards Turkish troops on Gulf of Saros; Russians sink German steamship
Derentie off Turkish coast; Norwegian ship Vaaren sunk by mine in North
Sea; three British ships sunk by mines.

Dec. 18--British auxiliary cruiser Empress of Japan captures collier
Exford with forty of Emden's crew on board; Russian Black Sea fleet
sinks two Turkish ships.

Dec. 19--Russian warship Askold captures German steamer Haifa and sinks
a Turkish steamer; British warships shell German positions between
Nieuport and Middelkerke.

Dec. 20--Allied fleets bombard interior forts of the Dardanelles.

Dec. 21--British capture German steamers Baden and Santa Isabel.

Dec. 22--Allied fleets shell German positions along Belgian coast;
French destroyer shells Turkish troops; allied fleets shell Kilid Bahr.

Dec. 23--Russian destroyers in Black Sea bombard coast villages.

Dec. 24--French cruiser slightly damaged by Austrian torpedo; French
submarine sunk by shore batteries.

Dec. 26--British make na